Song of harversting, song of joviality
Take Google as testament of freedon, relentless creativity, youthfulness, warm hospitality, and start... crooning~!

Aggresive Mittal against Archelor
Tycoon Lakshmi Mittal made a swift move by offering bid $23bil for rival Archelor's hostile takeover within the next 2 weeks. Despite Archelor's corporate structure re-organization and Dofasco's spin-off, and 5bil euros dividend payout to shareholders, Mittal is still making his great endevours of this world's 2nd largest steelmaker cum rival's takeover.

Skype says no "Falun Gong" and "Dalai Lama"
Text message's censorship by Skype is just another business regulation compliance. Is Niklas Zennstrom really playing footsie with dictators?

Apple is buoyant with $410mil profit on iPod sales
Continouosly yet without suprise. Sales of $4.36bil; profits of $410mil for the 1Q 2006. Revenues were up 35% y-o-y, while net profit grew 41%, thanks to 61% increase of iPod's sales, or 8.5mil units. Mac sales increased by 4% to 1.1mil units.

China-US trade remarks
Hu Jintao's visit to US lays an optimism to American as both parties would come to consensus to settle see-saw arugements of trade imbalance regarding US's $202bil deficit's to China.

Hu said Wednesday that China is working hard to level the playing field by opening its market to more American goods, but he placed part of the onus for the trade imbalance on the United States.

"We hope that the United States will take steps to promote the export of U.S. products to China, including easing export controls and reducing protectionist measures in the interest of addressing the trade imbalance issue in a better and more effective way," Hu said.

The United States restricts the sale to China of technology that has both civilian and military purposes, and it has urged the European Union to maintain an arms embargo put in place after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

The United States wants China to crack down on software piracy and enforce intellectual property rights. Both are initiatives that Hu has promised to pursue.

Another complaint in Washington is that China has kept international goods out of the country by keeping its currency, the yuan, artificially low.

B. Gates is China's friend, Hu's friend of MSFT..
Hu revealed the fantastic relationship between MSFT and China, and he sincerely pledged to solve the IPR and action against software pirates in China.

Ellison's consideration of Linux
BEA Systems might be the possible acquisition of Linux distributor by Oracle, after Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss, an open-source Java middleware. Next couple of years will have turbulent competition in the world of OS.

Climate change
Significant yet not-up-to-extreme climate change is predicted due to the greenhouse gas buildups. Should human beings still nonchalantly have open-air burnings, rubbish dump, which bring harms to our next generation?

Apr 19, 410.50

RIM's blackberry faces the toughest time penetrating into China market with the newly introduction of redberry by China Unicom. Blackberry VS Redberry, who can outbeat?

Chinese Internet and international VCs, angel funding are simultaneously marshalling into same "honeymoon" again by recent big thing Web2.0, as they foresee the potential lucrative revenue can be generated by this new concept which are people-oriented. Web2.0 has no difference with Web1.0 except the additional elements like blog, tag, SNS, RSS, wiki, moving the world of content enrichment, as well as solid connection and communication.

Among the Web2.0 Chinese reprentatives are qihoo, qq, mop, tianya, competing with Web1.0 veterans sohu, netease, and sina.

Motorola reported sales up 23%, with record 1Q of $10bil; compared to 1Q 2005 sales of $8.16bil.

Balance sheet handsomely generates positve operating cash flow of $700mil, as 21st consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow.

Global handset market share climbed during 1Q to estimated 21% – up 4.8% points versus the year-ago quarter. Handset shipments increased to a record 46.1mil units, and digital set-top box shipments reached a record of more than 2 mil units.

Apr 18, 404.24

Quite the active strategic discussions among these world's largest equity markets - NYSE, LSE, Euronext and Nasdaq. Nasdaq had actually acquired 15% stake in LSE for $781mil; and now LSE would like to get Euronext on its snag. Meantime, NYSE, world's largest stock exhange, is actually engaging intermittent discussions regarding strategic transaction, which LSE is one of the party involved.

This potentially ties a strong bond of cash liquidity between both continents of North America and Europe. Investors are benefited as they can keep even the closer eyes on the stocks. It's poised that the vibrancy of economy will be more apparent against the strong push of emerging economy growth from Asia, particularly China, Japan and Korea.

Any thought if Stock Exhanges of South-East Asia embark on the similar move, and work synergically with awakening tigers in Asia?

A good move by Idris Jala. MAS undoubtedly is among the carrier bringing excellent services to every of its passengers, which lays a great pride to Malaysians. The ticketless domestic booking which injects RM40mil save is a mild, yet inspiring move to mark an auspiciousness that this national GLC's financial figure can work hard from red figure.

Apr 17, 406.82

Software - Windows OS
Hardware - XBox 360
premierly sponsored by Microsoft during the incoming WCG. Nothing fancy... just try to close-up the gap with leader Sony's PS among avid gamers.

Amidst the strong challenges from Google, Yahoo in the world of web, proudly and arrogantly, Microsoft is still deeply entrenched into world's daily life, forming the "world of evil" with its two dominated MS Windows and MS Office. This Chinese man thoroughly analysed the tiny-tried of bounces by Chinese, and others.

If you find your web experience more attached to some Internet players, it's poised that Google should be one of them. From your must-go website / image search experience, to email check, to personal organiser, to worldwide location search, to international and finance news, to photo sharing, to blogging, till many many et cetera, Google is always providing most user-friendly graphical user interface to your optimum net surfing experience.

Apr 13, 402.16

VOIP mergers surge!: 1) Alcatel's Genesys-->VoiceGenie, 2) Comverse-->Netcentrex, 3) Skype-->Sonorit

1. Insert your phone number
2. Insert a friend's phone number
3. Press the green call button
4. Your phone rings... You simply pick up
5. Your friend's phone rings... Wait for reply
6. Talk

Is Jajah cool?

Gu Ge - Song of harvest, song of joviality, indication of "multi-colors" searching experience.

Apr 12, 408.95