London 2012 Ideas: V Grants For 16-25 Year Olds
Posted on 06. May, 2010 by admin in Business, Finance & Investments, Sports
‘v’ is using vcashpoint to give away £300,000 to 16-25 year olds in England with ideas for London 2012 inspired projects in their communities
If you’ve got an idea for a London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games volunteering project to improve your community, you could apply for a grant of up to £2,500 to bring your [...]
Internships: Experience or Exploitation?
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by admin in Business, Education, Finance & Investments, Network
Competition in the workplace is probably at an all time high for graduates everywhere. Internships are arguably the best way to get your foot in the door or so they say. As a graduate I am aware of employers pushing the envelope on what is deemed as fair and not. I guess I am one [...]
Top 10 Business Mergers/Acquisitions of the Decade (Part 2)
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Broadband in Business, Finance & Investments
In Part 1 we had the following mergers:
AOL & Time Warner
Pfizer Inc & Pharmacia Corporation
Royal Dutch Petroleum & Shell Transport and Trading Co
Chase Manhattan & JP Morgan
Inbev Inc & Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc
Here’s the final 5 mergers as Pbleepd takes a look at the Top 10 mergers and acquisitions in a decade of up and down [...]
Top 10 Business Mergers/Acquisitions of the Decade (Part 1)
Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Broadband in Business, Finance & Investments
2000-2009 saw some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in history with all fields and industry bigwigs vying for one another in an attempt at global domination.
It was a telling decade however as some mergers that sounded amazing on paper , consequently became a poor business decision costing millions and billions of perceived profit for [...]
Billionaire Boys Club
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by admin in Business, Entertainment, Finance & Investments, Music
Now alot of us at Pbleepd are known for making some outrageous comments but this could be one of the craziest ones to date….is it possible that two of hip-hop’s most popular figures have reached the billion dollar mark?
Amongst uncertainty, Jigga and Papa Diddy Pop are stated to have had a worth of around half [...]
Why you should never date a dude that is into finance
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by admin in Finance & Investments, Life and Style
Is this a BB messenger conversation you can relate too?
Mr X BB messages: There is definitely a shortage of luxury commodities
Mr Y BB messages: Tell me about it. What about the commodity from the emerging market; Brazil
Mr X BB messages: Insider info tells me that irrational investors inflated the value based on speculation. Yet an [...]
The Buffet Society: 10 Tips To Invest In”g”
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by AndrewSmiles in Business, Finance & Investments, Inspiration
After watching the Warren Buffet documentary aired on BBC 2 on the 10/05/09, many were left wondering whether investment was really that simple. Buffett throughout the show illustrated humility and a great sense of discipline in his family; for example his son accepted and viewed it fair that he did not receive his father’s inheritance [...]
Investing Series: Part 2 of 5 (Cont’d)
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by AndrewSmiles in Business, Finance & Investments
Life
This leads us to the third factor that causes stock price fluctuations Life. Say, for example, that a large company or institution runs into financial difficulty, wants to build a new production facility or pay down debt. It will sell its shares and stock holdings to cover this expenditure. In this case, large amount of [...]
Investing Series: Part 2 of 5
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by AndrewSmiles in Business, Finance & Investments
Firstly I would like to say thank you for all the feedback from Lesson one, initially I had planned to release an investing Lesson every month but due to popular demand here is your supply (economics joke!)
After lesson one you should have a basic understanding of how the market works, so we can take a [...]
Investing Series: Part 1 of 5 (Cont’d)
Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by AndrewSmiles in Business, Finance & Investments
Business is the cornerstone of every economy. Almost every large corporation started out as a small, mom-and-pop operation and through growth, became financial giants. Wal-Mart, Dell Computer, and McDonald’s had combined profits of $10.34 billion this year. Wal-Mart was originally a single-store business in Arkansas. Dell computer began with Michael Dell selling computers out of [...]
