Archive for Stephanie Grimmett
Music Downloads: Profit without iTunes
It’s a concensus: Being in the music business sucks, right now.
Despite the music industry’s best attempts to vilify file sharing, the prosecution of 12 year olds for downloading music has only resulted in the vilification of the major labels in…
14May2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedNew Technology: NTT redefines touch screen
You always knew you had an electric personality, and now a Japanese tech company agrees with you.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT: NYSE) just started selling sample kits of Firmo, the first human-transmitter authentication system.
New Technology: Touching skin turns on your…
28Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedAlternative Energy Stocks: NGK turns a profit on wind power
My primary weather experience was in a windswept place, where even calm days had an intermittent 30 mph “breeze.”
And maybe that’s why I can’t get excited about storage for wind-turbine energy. The idea that the wind might stop blowing for…
12Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedOil Company Profits: BP could lose $20 billion to Gazprom
Gazprom is moving to take control of BP’s Russian oil fields.
Gazprom, Russia’s government-owned energy company, already had plans to buy a stake in British Petroleum’s Kovykta gas field. And now, with rumors circulating that BP (BP: NYSE) is being bullied out…
9Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedPeak Oil: From Pemex to Petrobras
Oil and Energy
Mexico is struggling with a very important question about its future. Does the country want to be Brazil or Venezuela?
On the one hand, you have authoritarian rule and government-controlled natural resources. On the other, you have a liberalization…
3Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedU.S. Market Crisis: Paulson saves the day
Oh, good, I was worried there for a minute. But the government says it’s going to make sure we never have another mortgage crisis. Hoorah!
And how, exactly, is it going to do that? Well, Treasury Secretary Mark Paulson has an…
31Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedCommodities Trading: Aluminum’s Alcoa bribes (maybe) and buys
Despite record-breaking commodities prices, aluminum giant Alcoa (AA: NYSE) is not having the best of times right now.
The U.S. Justice Department just asked a judge in Pittsburgh to hold off on a lawsuit against the company.
The government of Bahrain is suing…
24Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedVisa IPO: First-day jitters and jumps
Weeeeeeeeeeee! — that would be the sound of Visa’s stock sliding from it’s opening high of $68 this morning to current levels around $58.
If you managed to grab Visa (V: NYSE) at its pricing last night, congratulations. You’ve already seen…
20Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedRussia vs. the Ukraine: Gazprom always wins
The Ukraine government is a teenage boy, and a rather ungrateful teenage boy, at that. The former Soviet Bloc country wants to be independent and chose its own friends. But at the same time, it still wants an allowance from…
15Feb2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | ContinuedInvesting in India: Tata takes charge
Tata Motors (TTM: NYSE) debuted its entry for the cheapest car in the world this week. The Nano, a two-seater that runs for an enviable 54 miles per gallon of gas, will cost Indian customers only INR 1 lakh (100,000…
14Jan2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 1 comment | Continued-
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