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Strong iPhone Sales In Asia Lead Apple Up and Away

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported another strong quarter this week driven by a whopping 131% increase in iPhone shipments and a 33% increase in Mac sales. Apple started shipping its latest innovation, the iPad, on April 3 after the close of its first quarter and is already expected to have sold more than 500,000 units of the

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Putting China On The Silicon Valley Map: NetScreen And Fortinet Founder Ken Xie (Part 1)

Ken Xie started his first network security company, Stanford InfoSystem, Inc., in 1993. A few years later, he realized the performance limitations of a software firewall and started NetScreen. NetScreen later was acquired by Juniper for $3.5 billion. At the end of 2000, Xie founded Fortinet, which pioneered Unified Threat Management (UTM). Ken earned his

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Deal Radar 2010: EthicsPoint,Oswego, Oregon

EthicsPoint helps clients to mitigate and manage compliance and organizational risk. The company offers integrated telephone and Web-based reporting hotlines and case management services that clients can use to identify, report, investigate, and resolve issues and events that may not be in line with their codes of conduct or governance policies.

IPO In China: Made-In-China.com President Joseph Wong (Part 7)

SM: Why did you list in China instead of Hong Kong? JW: The main decision was made by the CEO and CFO. Since I did not make the decision directly, I cannot say what were the final reasons for choosing the Chinese markets over the Hong Kong markets.

Deal Radar 2010: InHouse Inc ,Santa Ana, California

Among the allegations of misdeeds and unfair practices in the mortgage industry during and after the housing market implosion was New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s 2007 lawsuit of appraisal firm First American eAppraiseIT for collusion with Washington Mutual (WaMu). Cuomo claimed that First American eAppraiseIT allowed WaMu to pressure it to use appraisers who

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IPO In China: Made-In-China.com President Joseph Wong (Part 6)

SM: Is Made-In-China a public company? JW: Yes, we went public last year. We went public in China.

Deal Radar 2010: WaterFilters.NET, Minneapolis, Minnesota

It’s safe to assume that for decades, many Americans did not give much thought to safe drinking water. Access to clean water was a given in a wealthy, developed country. But the nation’s water treatment systems often fail to adhere to provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the New York Times’s Toxic

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