Archive for November, 2006

SearchStatus : FireFox Add-ons

SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox browser, that will be very useful for all search engine marketers. It gives relatively good information about a site, including google pagerank (PR), alexa ranking, keyword density of a page, indexed pages, backwards pages, etc. I’m not sure will it help alexa ranking like alexa toolbar, if is [...]

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Biosensors assigned ‘buy’ rating – OCBC

OCBC Investment Research said it has initiated coverage of Biosensors International Group with a “buy” call and a fair value of 1.05 sgd on the company’s positive outlook given the likelihood of regulatory approval for its BioMatrix drug-eluting stent (DES) and higher sales of its biodegradable DES technology. “We forecast that regulatory approval for Biosensors’ [...]

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Singapore semiconductor sector upgraded to ‘overweight’

Singapore semiconductor sector upgraded to ‘overweight’ – CIMB-GK
CIMB-GK Research says it has raised its rating for the semiconductor sector here to “overweight” from “hold,” saying that strong fundamentals and the peaking of the interest rate cycle next year would support increases in the valuations of stocks in the sector. “We expect the recent breakout from [...]

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Google Master Plan

The original content has be erased, i guess this is one of the highest resolution backup that we can get
http://undergoogle.com/tools/GoogleMasterPlanEN.html

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Create RSS or Atom Feed for blogger / blogspot

Blogger users can create your feed using the following step :
1. Enter your blog address

2. Select either RSS or Atom feed

3. Enter a feed address that you like

4. Finished. In between, you will be prompted to create a feedburner account

For instruction by feedburner, please refer to : http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/blogger_quickstart

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

STATS ChipPAC Buy Calls

UBS Investment Research
UBS Investment Research says it has raised its rating for STATS ChipPAC to “buy” from “neutral” and increased its target price for the stock to 1.60 sgd from 1.05 sgd because it believes the company is recovering. “We believe STATS is an attractive margin recovery story, and think current restructuring can deliver a [...]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Internet Banking is no longer “portable”

Thanks to DBS implemented this 2 factor authentication scheme, now you need to carry a small device to generate random code for login in internet banking in addition to your username and password.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

KFC from space

New branding war is here, competition go beyond the earth. KFC has built a huge logo which can be viewed from space. The 87,500 square feet logo was created by tiles placed in the Nevada desert, near the super secret Area 51.
Press release from KFC : KFC CREATES WORLD’S FIRST BRAND VISIBLE FROM SPACE [...]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Semiconductor Sector – Positive implication from potential buyout for ASE

Private equity firm Carlyle Group is making a move to acquire Advanced
Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), a Taiwanese test and assembly house,
for $5.46 billion. If the deal closes, ASE may be freed from cumbersome
Taiwan regulations that limit its investments and technology transfers to
China.
ASE [...]

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

New Section – Investment Log

Decided to separate my investment log from all the news, broker calls, my view, etc.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

FAlbum – To display flickr photos

Add a random photo section, using a plugin by FAlbum. You can let wordpress extract your data out from flickr directly and display in your blog. Kind of good API from flickr as well as good plugin. Now I have to upload some pictures to my empty flickr account.

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Interview with CG Tech CEO

Q: Let’s start with some background information about the group?
The Group manufactures and distributes PET chips and yarn products for the textile industry in China.
The Group reported a 57.9% increase in earnings to RMB61.7mil for the half year ended 30 June 2006. What were the factors that contributed to the strong growth at half-time?
The Strong [...]

Sunday, November 19th, 2006