2015년 3월 13일 금요일

Big Updates Part IV

Lloyd Shapley, a Nobel Laureate, is famous for his Gale-Shapley algorithm, which matches couples into "stable" relationships.

AccelorMittal cut net debt by $2bn to prepare for low prices

"Mr. Buffett said that, since he began investing in shares at the age of 11, he had never once bought something on the basis of an analyst recommendation"

"Late night quips have no answer to terrorist states that incinerate people...it is a mark of sanity to be able to laugh at the result" -Edward Luce of FT

Off-shore deepwater rigs experience first decline since 2001-2002 and would recover in 2017. A lot of "mothballing" and "cold-stacking"

GM pulled out of Indonesiain Feb, 2015 due to lack of extensive supplier/dealer network. Indonesia is reolling out a green car scheme that would require qualifying manufacturers to source 80% of their supplies locally by the fifth year.

Nielson, which measures TV viewership, may not be as strong as ComScore in measuring digital ad effectiveness. WPP invested in ComScore, which partners with Google, while Nielson allies with Facebook and Adobe.

"Daley family, where father and son held a firm grip for 43 of the past 60 years. To win elections, the Daleys kept the public sector unions sweet, scheduled elections in sub-zero February, then relied on neighborhood stewards to get out the vote" -Edward Luce of the FT

Great analogies: like herding cats or stapling jelly.

Alibaba and Lending Club have partnered. Lending Club will offer up to $300,000 working capital financing to US businesses that buy from Alibaba.

Alibaba operates China's largest money market fund through Ant Financial. Ant was the first of eight companies granted a license to launch a credit-scoring service, Sesame Credit. Sesame will benefit from Alibaba's data.

Laws in Tokyo restrict sound to 45 decibel (lvl of a library) in residential suburbs. The city is considering making excepttions for kids. 

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