Kursverdoppelung bei Actua Corporation (vorm. Internet Capital)

Re: Emptoris proceeds toward likely IPO  (Not rated)      12-Jan-07 10:19 am     I increase my estimate of revenues in 2006 from 110 to 130 million, because I had found this article:

"Software firm Emptoris completes acquisition of Mindflow Technologies
Boston Business Journal - July 20, 2006
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Contract and supply management software firm Emptoris Inc. announced Thursday it has completed its acquisition of Mindflow Technologies Inc.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


According to Emptoris, several key development and product management jobs will be moved from Mindflow's offices in Plano, Texas, to Emptoris headquarters in Burlington, Mass.

Emptoris has acquired five companies in the past three years, and the acquisition of Mindflow Technologies is its second acquisition this year. In April, Emportis acquired diCarta Inc., a contract management software firm in San Carlos, Calif.

Although Emptoris does not release in revenue figures, Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., estimated that Emtoris sales reached $101 million annually after it acquired diCarta Inc.

Emptoris customers include American Express, Bank of America, Boeing, Dow Corning, GlaxoSmithKline, Motorola, Owens Corning, Samsung America, and Toro."

In this article you can read: "Although Emptoris does not release in revenue figures, Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., estimated that Emtoris sales reached $101 million annually after it acquired diCarta Inc." After the aquring of diCarta Emptoris acquired additional Mindflow - but the addional revenues of mindflow are not part of 101 million, Forrester wrote.


Sentiment : Strong Buy

Hauptansatzpunkr für die Manipulation von Buckley is Creditex. Wir wissen inzwischen ganz exakt, dass die in 2006 einen Umsatz in Form von Provisionserlösen in Höhe von 135 Millionen hatten, was bei einem Anteil von 15% von Internet Capital ziemlich genau anteiligen Umsätzen von 20 Millionen entspricht. Schon allein daraus würde sich die anteiligen Umsätze von 81 auf 101 Millionen erhöhen. Besonders kriminell ist aber, wie Buckley Creditex "alternativ" berücksichtigt. Und zwar sind als Bestandteil der 212 Millionen Cash und Wertpapiere 4 Millionen enthalten, die den Buchwert von Credittrade ausmachen, die in Creditex aufgingen. Ich muss noch einmal betonen, ich habe derart kriminelles Vertuschen vorhandener Wert noch nie gesehen - und ich halte hier ein Eingreifen der SEC für erforderlich. Denn der schlimme Finger Buckley addiert hier ungeniert und dreist Cash, Börsenwerte und Buchwerte (letztere machen vielleicht 5% oder 10% der Börsenwerte aus). Um diese Manipulation praktizieren zu können, hat Buckley eigens Creditex von den Core Companies zu den Other Companies umgesetzt. Bei den Core Companies hätten sie die anteiligen Jahresumsätze um 20 Millionen erhöht - und das gleicht Buckley dadurch aus, indem für diese 20 Millionen Jahresumsätze bei der Cash/Beteiligungen einen Wert von 4 Millionen ansetzt, obwohl da einen Wert von 100 Millionen ist. Um es kurz zu machen - für so etwas gehört man schlicht und einfach in den Knast. Und das alles nur, weil er für seine Optioen ein paar Dollar weniger bezahlen muss.

Aber der Seiltrick von Buckley geht weiter, er vergisst ganz schlicht und einfach die Beteiligung von 5% an Emptoris. Emptoris hatte in 2006 ca. 130 Millonen Erlöse, was bei einem 5% Anteil 6,5 Millionen weiterer anteiliger Erlöse ausmacht. Eine kriminelle Nummer von Buckley ist, dass sich die 2.3 nur auf die 8 Kernbeteiligungen beziehen und er eine Berechnung anstellt und so tut, dass das die Umsätze wären. Das ist beinhart und eiskalt so kalkuliert, denn er wird sich bei der SEC herausreden können, dass er ja bei den 2,3 nur die Kernbeteiligungen gemeint habe. Krimineller geht es aber trotzdem nicht.

Die neu erworbene Channel Intelligence unterschlägt er logischerweise auch, immerhin 40% von 10 Millionen, die sie an Umsätze in 2006 hatten. Das sind weitere 4 Millionen anteiliger Umsätze. Nun könnte man argumentieren, dass sich durch den Verkauf von Channel Intelligence die Kasse vermindert habe und man daher die 4 Millionen nicht ansetzen könne. Das wird aber bei weiterm überkompensiert, da sich dies und auch der Einschuss von ca. 10 Millionen bei Creditex durch die Verkäufe mit Sicherheit mehr als ausgleichen: Man nämlich die 29% an Credit.com and Fidelity verscheuert und die 46% an Computerjobs an einen britischen Mitwettbewerber.

Auch Anthem Venture wurde nicht berücksicht, obwohl das in der Tat schwer ist. Ich gehe an dieser Stelle einmal von anteiligen Umsätzen von nur 5 Millionen aus, es können aber sehr viel mehr sein, da ich hiermit unterstelle, dass mehr als 20 Beteiligungen von Anthem Venture nur anteilige Umsätze von ca. 60 Millionen produzieren, was vermutlich viel zu niedrig ist - aber sei's drum.

Wie Ihr seht, hat Bückley 20 Millionen bei Creditex weggeschwindelt, 6,5 Millionen bei Emptoris, 4 Millionen bei Channel Intelligence und 5 Millionen bei Anthem Venture (die restlichen kleinen Companies wurden vernachlässigt) - in der Addition insgesamt 35,5 Millionen.

Das Resultat ist, dass wir in 2006 nicht anteilige Umsätze von 81 Millionen hatten, wie Buckley mit seiner Beschränkung (die er allerdings nennt) auf die acht Kernbeteiligungen verkündet, sondern 116,5 Millionen.

Und hinzu kommt: Die 116,5 Millionen waren Zahlen von 2006. Buckley spricht selbst von 30% Wachstum und da sind wir in der Nähe von 150 Millionen anteiligen Umsätzen in 2007, die bezogen auf die 186 Millionen gerade einmal eine Bewertung der anteiligen Umsätze mit dem Faktor 1,3 ergeben. Das ist extrem niedriger Wert, wenn man z.B. mit kleinen deutschen und auch US-Interklitschen vergleicht, für die Werte von 8 nicht selten sind, aber deren Aussichten nicht so gut sind, wie der Schnitt der anteiligen Umsätze der  Beteilgungen von Internet Capital.


   

zwischen NY und Frankfurt. Allerdings bei lächerlich kleinen Geschäften in Frankfurt, ganz im Unterschied zu NY, wo sich der Preis gegen Mittag (NY Zeit)allerdings etwas abgeschwächt hat..  

die vor Jahren das Papier zwischen 1.000 und 4.280 gekauft haben, kann man nun wirklich verzichten, ob sie nun Motzky, Ebörse oder wie auch immer hießen.

Fakt ist allerdings, und da hast Du recht, deutsche Anleger haben den Anstieg von $3,40 auf fast $11 komplett verschlafen. Und wie es aussieht werden auch beim Anstieg auf $20 nicht sehr viele dabei sein. Die Erklärung ist simpel: Internet Capital ist nun einmal kein Zockerpapier, sondern eher etwas für Anleger mit langem Atem. Aber das war nicht immer so und der Austausch zwischen der einen Gruppe hin zu der anderen Gruppe klappt noch nicht - aber immer besser.

Ein deutsches Sprichwort sagt eben: Gut Ding will Weile haben. Wer damit nicht klarkommt, sollte lieber weiter in Cobravest (oder so ähnlich), Nesino oder Abacho oder wie die anderen aus Kulmbach empfohlenen Werte heißen, mit denen man ein kleines Vermögen mache kann - wenn man vorher ein großes hatte.

Die Amis sind da schlauer. Die waren lange Zeit ähnlich blöd wie die deutschen Kleinzocker, aber man kann jetzt auf ihren Boards erkennen, dass sie an der Sache arbeiten auch auch zu richtigen Erkenntnissen kommen.

ICGE owns the largest Credit Deriv exchange...LBO target  (Not rated)      10-Jan-07 08:39 pm     HEADED TO $15 BY MARCH...WAIT UNTIL WALL ST FIGURES THIS OUT!!!

$5 IN CASH...STOCK TRADED OVER $1000...

BUY BUY BUY


Sentiment : Strong Buy
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der für 600 Dollar gekauft hatte und in einer Community, die im Schnitt für 5 oder 6 Dollar gekauft hatte, mit Idiotenspruchen seinen Einstandkurs anmahnte, fällt mir jetzt nicht exakt ein - entweder Benny oder Henny oder so ähnlich und unendlich dämlich.

Selbst ein Optimist wie Libuda hält Wert zwischen 50 und 100 Dollar nur langristig erreichbar, wenn z.B. Freeborder das ganz BIG THING wird.

Q-WIXX was incubated and developed by Creditex Group Inc., the leading electronic and hybrid marketplace for credit
derivatives in the dealer community, and is being spun-off into a separate, independently managed entity.
Q-WIXX was specifically set up to assist hedge funds, correlation desks of dealers and buy-side market participants in
achieving execution and processing efficiencies when executing transactions known as Offers Wanted in Competition
(“OWICs”) or Bids Wanted in Competition (“BWICs”). These transactions are lists regularly containing over 100 credit
derivative names and notional amounts of more than USD $1bn or €1bn per list. Q-WIXX will provide processing
efficiencies by the provision of Straight Through Processing through T-Zero.
Duncan Needham of Cairn Capital said; “Q-WIXX allows us to enhance returns for our investors while reducing
operational risks. It is nothing short of an iPod for the credit markets. We have seen the future and it works.”
“We are pleased to have participated in the first Q-WIXX auction and to have been part of this major milestone for the
credit derivatives market,” said Simon Morris of Goldman Sachs. “We will continue to work collaboratively with QWIXX
to develop and enhance this platform to ensure it meets the needs of global hedge funds, correlation desks and
buy-side accounts.”
Guy America, Head of Credit trading at JPMorgan, said, “Q-WIXX provides our clients with a very efficient platform
that provides the assurance of execution and the necessary transparency.”
“Q-WIXX provides our clients with the ability to execute OWICs and BWICs on an electronic platform in a fair and
efficient manner” said Derek Smith of Deutsche Bank. “This is a necessary step in the right direction given the
explosive growth of the credit derivatives market and the significantly increased level of activity in OWICs and BWICs lists.

die an Frankfurter Börsen bei Internet Capital die Kurse feststellt, der sich täglich von Manipulateuren vorführen lässt, die entweder mit Miniaufträgen den Kurs zu manipulieren versuchen, was zumindest nicht kriminell ist - aber vom Skontrenführer erkannt werden müsste -, oder mit Durchhandelgeschäften (wo Käufer und Verkäufer identisch sind), was eine Kursmanipulation im Sinne des Wertpapierhandelsgesetzes ist. Das Fatale für Käufer in Frankfurt ist, dass sie zu einer falschen Limitsetzung animiert werden. Ihr bekommt nichts, wenn Ihr in Frankfurt zu 7,80 limitiert, wenn der umgerechnete US-Kurs bei 8 Euro liegt. Bei den heute zu 7,80 gehandelten 2.000 Stücken dürfte es sich um ein Durchhandelsgeschäft gehandelt haben.

Fazit: Der Skontrenführer in Frankfurt tut alles (für die Manipulateure), nur nicht das, was seine Aufgabe ist: Kurs festzustellen, die die Marktlage widerspiegeln. Er scheint Tomanten auf den Augen und Bohnen in den Ohren zu haben und hat damit den Handel in Frankfurt fast zum Erliegen gebracht, was die Manipulateure ja auch erreichen wollten. Noch wichtiger ist es ihnen, im Vorfeld der US-Eröffnung Kurse aus Deutschland zu suggerieren, die nicht der tätsächlichen Marktlage entsprechen, sondern der Unfähigkeit, Gleichgültigkeit und Faulheit des zuständigen Marketmakers.

LiveTrading Geld Brief Datum Zeit Gestellte Kurse
LT Lang & Schwarz 7,92 8,20 19.01.07 15:18 1289


Dass dagegen an der offiziellen Börse Kurse gestellt werden, die nicht die Marktlage widerspiegeln, ist meines Erachtens ein krimineller Skandal - und das alles unter den Augen der Handelsüberwachungsstelle des Bafin, die offensichtlich auch Tomaten auf den Augen hat oder man kann es auch Rechtsbeugung nennen, wenn eine Stelle, die für die Einhaltung von Gesetzen zuständig ist (hier des Wertpapierhandelsgesetzes), nichts sieht.

Das 10.33-Bid in den USA entspricht ziemlich genau 8 Euro. Der Frankfurter Skontrenführer ist angeblich bereit, Euch für 7,95 zu liefern. Testet das. Wenn er nicht liefert, solltet ihr ihn nach meiner Auffassung wegen Kursmanipulation anzeigen.

Last Trade: 10.46
Trade Time: Jan 18
Change: 0.00 (0.00%)
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Open: N/A
Bid: 10.33 x 200
Ask: 10.53 x 100
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 Day's Range: N/A - N/A
52wk Range: 7.57 - 11.26
Volume: 0
Avg Vol (3m): 337,206
Market Cap: 408.60M
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EPS (ttm): -0.31
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Beteiligungen von anthem venture partners. Anthem Venture ist ein Incubator wie Internet Capital. Und Internet Capital hält wiederum 9% von Anthem Venture.

www.anthemvp.com/news.php

The most criminal basher lie from bashers like myfriedlyadvice is laughable, when they wrote that the sale of Linkshare was an one time event causing the large jump in earnings only in 2005. The incubator model of Internet Capital based on the buying of companies in earlier stages and sell them, when they more developed. In the years after 2000 incubator had great difficulties - but today incubator-models works very well.

It is a criminal lie of bashers like myfriendlyadvice to say, that the sale of Linkshare was an one time event. The pipeline of Internet Capital if full with IPO's and sells - and for example the gains by an IPO of ICGCommerce or Freeborders will be higher than by the sale of Linkshare. And the gains by an IPO or sell of Creditex or Starcite only a little bit less than by the sale of Linkshare. And next one is Metastorm.

But the price of Internet Capital doesn't reflect this full pipleline. The market-cap. of is no higher than the addition of the cash and the proceeds by an IPO or sale of ICGCommerce. Free of charge than companies like Freeborders and Starcite and Creditex and Metastorm and Marketron and Vcommerce and Emptoris and Anthem Venture and Whitefence and ChannelIntelligence and other.

 

und zu dem durch die hohe Cash pro Aktie und die Risikostreung über verschiedene Beteiligungen ein relativ konserative Anlage. Obwohl es die Eier legende Wollmilchsau nicht geben dürfte - hier ist aber trotzdem so ein Exemplar:



P/E= 4, base: average net income 2005-2009

The earnings of a quarter a non-events, but not the earning of longer periods. An incubator like Internet Capital will have losses in all periods without sells of companies or sells of shares from IPO's. But some idiots on this board take quarters without such sells as typical example for the earnings of Internet Capital. Take a look at 2005. In three quarters Internet Capital had small losses, but the net income in one quarter was so big, that in the year 2005 Internet Capital had a net income of 72.5 million. That is typical for the earnings of Internet Capital. It could be, that we have a year without greater sales like 2006, but we will have other year with more than one greater sales - maybe in 2007, when Freeborders and/or Starcite and/or ICGCcommere and/or Creditex and/or Metastrom were sold or make an IPO and shares of these IPO's were sold.

The most important question is: What is the average net income in every year in the period of 2005 - 2009? I believe, we will be higher than the 72.5 million of 2005. My estimate for the average net income of this period is 100 million or more every year.

On this base we have a P/E of 4 - that is a number, we never see once more by all Internet Stocks around the world.

Now, a similar concept is emerging in credit derivatives. Last week, the first pilot test was conducted of a platform that allows investment banks, hedge funds and other market participants to conduct near-instant auctions to obtain prices for every trade in a portfolio of credit derivative contracts.

The platform, known as Q-Wixx, is designed to circumvent the need for a series of conversations with dealers to obtain prices and then execute the trades - in much the same way that Expedia or Orbitz remove the need to call several travel agents before booking a holiday.

This switch is particularly important since investment banks are being flooded with deals involving large credit derivatives portfolios, where the dealers compete on prices for each individual trade in the portfolio.

According to banks, there are typically between six and 10 such portfolios hitting the market a day, with between 30 and 200 "names" (or companies on which CDS contracts need to be written.) Last week's test apparently went well with about $1.7bn of contracts "filled" with the first deal, all in under 10 minutes.

The auction involved four dealers: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Interdealer credit derivatives broker Creditex, which created Q-Wixx, plans to launch the system early next year.

Some bankers say that this could revolutionise the way that portfolios of credit derivatives are traded, adding an important new leg to the market's infrastructure. Indeed, if the scheme spreads widely - as some bankers think it might - the new platform could end up acting a little like a virtual exchange.

If so, that might reduce the possibility that the over-the-counter credit derivatives market would ever migrate on to a regulated exchange - a situation that the banks have a tremendous vested interest in avoiding.

"This is a huge step for the market," says the head of credit derivatives at one large bank. "If you had asked me 18 months ago whether there would be a need for credit futures on exchanges, I would have said yes. Now I am less sure."

Creditex, which created Q-Wixx, is trying to avoid making excessively grandiose claims for its platform, partly because it does not wish to antagonise interest groups.

The significance of the system lies in the fact that the platform essentially replaces a messy, bilateral system with a multilateral, live auction process.

That is useful for trading portfolios, which many investors now wish to do, either because they are creating collateralised debt obligations (bonds backed by portfolios of debt instruments), or because they are executing large-scale strategies. Until now, such orders have usually been filled via bilateral e-mails.


Sentiment : Strong Buy

Re: P/E= 4, base: average net incomer 05-09  (Not rated)      21-Jan-07 11:40 am     For example: If the BIG FIVE, that are ICGCommerce, Freeborders, Starcite, Creditex and Metastorm, would make IPO's (what not will happen all together), the 79% shares of ICGCommerce, the 33% shares of Freeborders, the 27% shares of Starcite, the 15% shares of Creditex and the 41% shares of Metastorm will have together an IPO-market-cap of about 700 million. The book value of this shares is less than 70 million. To produce a net income of 100 million in 2007, Internet Capital must only sell 110 million of this 700 million. And the best: At the end of the year the worth is back to 700 million.

And this will continue in the following years - and other companies, today in earlier stages, could ipo and the shares of BIG FIVE, who are not sold, increase - greatest chances by Freeborders, who could become the Infosys of china.

die jederzeit explodieren kann und die Shortseller zerfetzen wird. Ehe die Shortseller in tausend Stücke gesprengt werden sollte man drin sein - nicht langsam, sondern schnell und am besten gleich morgen in Frankfurt (unter 8 Euro Limit läuft da meines Erachtens nichts - von 10 Stück zu 7,85 im Rahmen der üblichen Manipulationen einmal abgesehen).

Maybe, the Great Bang is near  (Not rated)      8 minutes ago     because look at this great surprise. After the first numbers, the insitutional holding increased from 67% t0 70% - all believes that we would see an decrease, Flankenking too.

But see now, the sensationell numbers:

Holdings Summary

ICGE
Internet Capital Group, Inc. NASDAQ-GM


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Company Details
Total Shares Out Standing (millions): 39

Market Capitalization ($ millions): $404

Institutional Ownership: 70%

Price (as of 1/19/2007) 10.34


Ownership Analysis # Of Holders Shares
Total Shares Held: 91 27,360,265

New Positions: 6 409,430

Increased Positions: 37 4,086,620

Decreased Positions: 31 1,380,749

Holders With Activity: 68 5,467,369

Sold Out Positions: 7 106,207



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(Shares) % Change
(Shares) Value
($1000)
GENDELL JEFFREY L 9/30/2006 3,262,780 0 0.00% $33,737

CAPITAL RESEARCH & M... 9/30/2006 2,800,000 909,225 48.09% $28,952

DIMENSIONAL FUND ADV... 9/30/2006 2,620,155 453,678 20.94% $27,092

MELLON FINANCIAL COR... 9/30/2006 2,436,581 (11,456) (0.47%) $25,194

SCHNEIDER CAPITAL MA... 9/30/2006 1,699,592 30,500 1.83% $17,574



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dass da jetzt neben Libuda noch jemand das Management feuern möchte bzw. ihm Feuer unter den Hintern machen möchte:

EW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Mason Capital Management LLC, a $2 billion hedge fund manager, on Monday stepped up a dissident shareholder campaign at Internet Capital Group Inc. (ICGE.O: Quote, Profile , Research), the former high-flying Internet investment company.

Mason, which holds a 9.5 percent stake in Internet Capital, said it hired a proxy solicitation firm in what may be a move to run a slate of directors at the next annual shareholders meeting, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

New York-based Mason didn't name the proxy solicitation firm or further disclose its intentions for the company in the filing. A spokesman for Mason declined to comment.

Mason said the proxy firm was hired to consider "a proposal that may result in a change in the present board of directors or management" of Internet Capital, according to the filing. Activist hedge funds like Mason typically threaten to run slates of directors or take other measures in companies which they view as underperforming.


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Shares in Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Internet Capital hit a high of $212 a share in December 1999 on investor optimism about its business of investing in internet companies. However, the technology fallout in succeeding years hammered the stock, causing the company to slim down from around 80 companies to less than two dozen today.

Internet Capital shares closed at $10.26 on Nasdaq on Monday, down 8 cents

Was auch sehr wichtig ist, die Schutzengelfunktion des Management für Shorter und nackte Shorter ist weg, denn die Mason ist an steigenden Kursen schon jetzt interessiert und nicht erst in Jahren wie das Management, das zunächst noch billig einsacken möchte.

ärgere mich tagtäglich ab diesem Zirkus, vor allem in Frankfurt, aber nicht nur dort.

Hoffentlich bekommt diese Bande von Zockern und Beinahekriminellen endlich eins hinter die Löffel.
Habe mich im Spätherbst 06 zwischen 8.60 und 9.50 USD noch einmal kräftig eingedeckt (in NY) und verfolge die unendliche Geschichte -bin seit 1999 dabei- mit grossem Interesse. Habe meine herben Verluste von 2000 bis 2002 längstens wieder ausgebügelt.      

Noch einmal zu den Prozentsätzen von Mason:

Re: Maybe, the Great Bang is near  (Not rated)      23-Jan-07 07:53 am     On December 20, we could read about 8% of Mason Capital. Today Mason Capital wrote about 9,5%, they owned. The another 1,5% more by instiutionals. But who had sold. I believe, the answer is simple, shortseller - and I believe most naked shorter. The SEC should look after them, it that was legal.

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Hedge Fund Discloses 8% Stake in Internet Capital Group
Wednesday December 20, 10:54 pm ET


Lon Juricic submits: In a 13D filing on Internet Capital Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ICGE - News) Mason Capital Management disclosed an 8% stake (3.12M shares, 2.7M which represent Convertible Notes owned) in the company.

ein Dreijahreshoch in NY. Sieht gut aus gespannt wie es weiterläuft.

darf man gespannt sein, wie der zuständige Skontrenführer die Manipulateure in Frankfurt weiter mit seiner Nichtahnung, Faulheit und seinem Desinteresse mit nicht marktgerechten Kursen unterstützt und ob die Handelsüberwachungsstelle des Bafin in Frankfurt weiterhin so grausam weiter schläft - ein schlimmer Skandal, der dem Börsenplatz Frankfurt großen Schaden zufügt. Ich kann die Amis schon verstehen, dass sie gegen den Freiverkehr in Deutschland etwas unternehmen wollten.

in Frankfurt keinen Bock hat, dann sollten die in Frankfurt den Handel gefälligst einstellen und den Handel nach Stuttgart oder an eine andere deutsche Börse weitergeben.

Big Short und seinen Freunden geht es ans Leder.

Highest shortselling we ever had seen  (Not rated)      25-Jan-07 07:39 am     January 2007
Short
Interest Percent
Change Average Daily
Share Volume Days to
Cover
ICGE Internet Capital Group, Inc. - Common Stock 3,639,584 10.55 375,012 9.71

And additional we must see, that 70% of the shares hold by institutionals.

And additonal exist a lot of not legal naked shortselling, which is not part of 3,639,584 shares.


Sentiment : Strong Buy

The IPO window opened a crack. Vonage got a lukewarm welcome, but the $531.3 million that IPO raised was far larger than the second- and third-largest offerings on Red Herring’s list—data management firm CommVault ($161.1 million) and video compression software maker DivX ($119.4 million).

The paucity of IPOs in the United States left VCs in a pensive mood. “The big question people have on their mind is: ‘Is the IPO market dead’?” says Mark Jensen, partner and national director of venture capital services for Deloitte & Touche.

At the same time, foreign markets became attractive exit points, with Chinese and British IPOs in all sectors raising more than those in the traditionally dominant U.S. markets—where regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley are making it harder for small companies to go public. That trend is likely to continue, with 57 percent of VCs polled by the National Venture Capital Association predicting more momentum toward taking companies public overseas.

Then there were the serial acquirers like Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, who chalked up 19, 16, and 13 acquisitions, respectively, through December 8, according to the 451 Group.

Facing an unforgiving market, VCs are forced to give their portfolio companies more time to mature before testing the IPO waters. “With $50 million to $70 million in revenue in the past, you could go public,” Mr. Jensen says. “Going forward, it will take $100 million to $200 million.”

Speculation is already swirling about this year’s big deals. Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist at Ventures West, says the most likely “market-changing deal” of 2007 will be the acquisition of Yahoo. Though private equity has been kicking Yahoo’s tires, Mr. Kedrosky sees Microsoft as the most likely suitor. “Microsoft is losing [search] share at an alarming rate,” he says. “Once they get past [the launch of] Vista, there will be huge street pressure to fix this problem.”

In 2007, IPOs also may bubble. The crop of 2003—the first to reach typical IPO maturity since the Internet meltdown—is coming of age. In the second half, “we’ll see an active IPO market,” Mr. Jensen says.


Sentiment : Strong Buy

Re: A story you must read, to understand  (Not rated)      25-Jan-07 01:05 pm     Most important sentence of the article: "Facing an unforgiving market, VCs are forced to give their portfolio companies more time to mature before testing the IPO waters. “With $50 million to $70 million in revenue in the past, you could go public,” Mr. Jensen says. “Going forward, it will take $100 million to $200 million.”

I believe, Internet Capital had worked in this direction:

First it gives his portfolio companies more time and therefore they make no ipo in 2006. You remember the sale of Linkshare in 2005 was to cheap - today the price were double or more.

Second it produce through three merger greater companies (Creditex and Credittrade to the new Creditex, Starcite and Onvantage to the new Starcite and Metastorm and Commercequest to the new Metastorm).

As the result, Internet Capital has a pipeline of six IPO with market-caps between 200 million and a billion.


Sentiment : Strong Buy

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Internal compliance is not seen as an immediate priority. Only once the objective of improved supplier management has been achieved will organizations consider themselves ready to address internal compliance. However, NelsonHall believes internal compliance needs to be addressed more rapidly, and that to achieve maximum benefit organizations should address both supplier management and compliance and internal compliance simultaneously rather than separately.

In many organizations indirect procurement has been a low priority compared to direct procurement, receiving lower access to investment and specialist personnel. As a result, some organizations are now outsourcing indirect procurement services to improve the management of these increasingly important processes.

"Organizations want an improved process compared to their in-house capability. To achieve this goal vendors need to offer end-to-end process improvement across both sourcing and category management and purchase-to-pay processes. According to NelsonHall, outsourcing one of these processes in isolation is unlikely to deliver both the vendor management and the internal compliance required for an optimum solution," concluded Stormonth.

About the market research report

The NelsonHall global study, "Indirect Procurement Outsourcing: Customer Requirements", is based on user interviews with over 300 major organizations across a wide range of industry sectors. The report was written specifically for market managers developing strategies to target segments of the indirect procurement outsourcing market and executives researching business issues and vendor capabilities before making purchasing decisions. The report is part of NelsonHall's Procurement Sourcing program.

 
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