Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is a Chinese article talking about the history of the Xinhua Finance, Xinhua Finance Media Limited (Nasdaq: XFML), and its founder Ms. Fredy Bush. Quote the article, Xinhua Finance claimed “如果你生活在中国，清晨醒来打开电视就能看到收视率最高的节目之一：《财富早7点》。乘车上班途中，可以收听到中国国际广播电台EasyFM的节目。路过报刊亭可以见到《经济观察报》、《投资有道》和《基金观察》。” This is not necessarily true, I could NOT see the “Fortune Morning (7 AM)” in Shanghai on TV. If a Financial TV program

Reading Time: < 1 minute I read it from Keso’s blog, although I have not got mail from Yahoo itself. Guess Keso is a much important customer to Yahoo 🙂 Anyway, Yahoo graciously offers serveral migration tools to other sites, such its very own Flickr and Shutterfly. So guys (gals), hurry up, don’t want until Sept. 20 to migrate your

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update June 30, 2007) I read today’s St. Louis Post Dispatch and found the guy in front of me bought the new iphone, and his picture appeared on the first page! He paid $200 for the No. 14 slot. Neither of us received the 30 tickets handed out to the top 30 people lined up.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Of Steve’s new phone, I mean, the phone without key pad, the highly hyped iPhone? On my way to work, I already seeing people camping out side of the Cingular (sorry AT&T) store at Olive and Craig. Actually I checked last night (at 9PM) nobody was there yet. I saw on TV in New York

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update June 29) It’s not surprising that Team Yi (Yi Jianlian, his agent and advisors) are not happy with being selected by Milwaukee, accoring to this Chinese news. They even threatened “not come to Milwaukee”. Duh? Please note in this business of NBA, even super star like Steve Nash does not get to choose the

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update June 29) Motley fool ran an article on this. I agree what they said. (Original June 28) Yeah, they decided to withdraw the already-cut-in-half secondary offering, according to Business Wire. This is the first time I saw a company withdraw a secondary offering, because of lack of interest (from buyers). I did see some

Reading Time: 2 minutes In about a month, I am going to come back to China and get married. Since I have been in the US for almost 10 years, attended couple weddings, I have some ideas about the financial side of the wedding here. Registry: when I first heard of it in 2000, I thought this is probably

Reading Time: < 1 minute Follow this link to get 20% off at shoebuy.com, I believe it does not have restrictions on the type of shoes (hint: Crocs) you can buy. This is not an affiliate link (a.k.a., I am not receiving any referral fee from this).

Reading Time: < 1 minute Got some new T-shirts lately. My current T-shirts are mostly a few years old, some can even date back to my college years at Rolla, that’s almost 8 or 9 years old! I decided to retire some of those that no longer fit. I got my first new shirt shortly after I came back (in

Reading Time: < 1 minute I wrote about Nike (NKE) a while ago during NBA finals. I joked about Nike is the loser in this NBA finals because their super star James’ team lost. Obviously in the real world Nike is doing very well, especially internationally (Europe and Asia, specificialy China). Here is their quarterly report. This is not surpising