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Steve Jobs Health

The Steve Jobs Health Factor & the Law: Gauging Materiality

Aside from a bunch of bankruptcy news (here and here), the big corporate stunner of the day is the revelation that Apple CEO Steve Jobs — just a week after reassuring investors and employees about his health — has a “more complex” medical condition and will take a leave of absence until the end of June.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Oct. 14, 2008. (AP)The disclosure by Jobs, whom the Journal notes is key to Apple, sent the stock down $6 to $79.33 in after-hours trading. Charlie Wolf, a financial analyst with Needham, told the Journal that the “Steve Jobs health” factor could cause the stock to fall an additional 10% to 15%.


So what’s the legal issue? You guessed it: Materiality. Did the board have a duty to disclose the info to investors?


“The board must decide if the CEO’s health is considered material information, meaning that an investor would consider the information important in deciding whether to buy or sell the company’s securities,” said Pepper Hamilton’s Steven R. London in an e-mail. London heads the firm’s Shareholder Activism Team. “If the information is determined to be material, then the company must disclose the news to the public or require all of its insiders to refrain from trading in the company’s securities.”


London said the board must consider the “prominence of the key officer within the company and the extent of the illness. An illness that is likely to result in death or likely to incapacitate an individual who is a critical driving force in the company in the reasonably near future would be considered material. . . If Apple previously suggested that Steve Jobs was not seriously ill, and his condition changes, then Apple may have an affirmative obligation to disclose the deterioration in his health.”

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When reached by phone, London told us: “If you’re an investor, you might have relied on last week’s statement, which gave the perception that the health issue is not serious and therefore the risk of losing Jobs as CEO is not significant. Perhaps you made your investment decision of whether to buy, sell or hold based on that statement. Then, a week later, the company changes its tune. The recovery, if there is to be one, will take longer, you learn. Now the price of the stock is going down. And if you bought you’re probably angry. So you sue the company, based upon last week’s statement, which you’d argue was materially misleading and you traded on that.”
“The flip side,” added London, “is that the company has a defensible argument as to why each statement was made, and why the respective statements were truthful at the time. After all, medical science is not perfect or definitive.”


A call to Apple was not immediately returned.

world's slimmest TV

SKorea's Samsung says unveils world's slimmest TV (AFP)

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled what it says is the world's slimmest LCD (liquid crystal display) TV.

The new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets, Samsung said in a statement.
Its thickness is one seventh of Samsung's "Bordeaux 850" LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market, the company said.

The new product, which adopts an LED (light emitting diode) backlighting system, will be on display at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 8 to 11, Samsung added.

Should You Be on Facebook?

Social-networking sites are all but putting business-card printers out of business. Instead of trading a 3.5 x 2-inch piece of paper, people are trading names and tracking one another down on sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. While LinkedIn has a decidedly professional bent, Facebook can be a much more intimate look into one's personal life and inner circle of friends. Still, a lot of folks are on Facebook and use it as a professional networking tool. But is it right for you?

Because Facebook makes it easy to blur the lines between the professional and personal, most experts caution against this, unless, perhaps, you work in the entertainment industry. "When you think about Facebook and other social-networking sites, you have got to think about these profiles as an addendum to your resume," says Lauren Milligan, founder of ResuMAYDAY.com.
Daisy L. Swan, of Daisy Swan & Associates, agrees, "Now that there are so many people who are going to be looking for new positions, it's good to be able to be found -- so long as you're presenting yourself as the professional you want to be."


Here are some tips to put your best face forward on Facebook:

1. Keep it strictly professional. Career strategist Swan says, "Have a consistent message," meaning if you're marketing yourself as a top accountant, make sure your Facebook profile reflects that image. Milligan tells users, "Keep the social aspect separate. I've had clients who've been way too attached to their Facebook pages and all the personal content on there, but I ask them, 'What's your priority? Finding a job or revealing all?'"


2. Mind your status. Your status can be used for more than goofy one-liners. Swan, for instance, shares, "You can use your status to let people know about additional projects you're working on, which sends a message that you're more than just what you do at work every day." Also, if you friend your coworkers on Facebook, make sure you don't accidentally throw yourself under the bus by revealing you weren't really sick when you called in sick to work, as one Facebook user learned (see related incident on Shamebox blog).


3. Choose your friends and your groups carefully. Whom you friend and the groups you join are a reflection of who you are. Think through the requests you accept and the company you keep on Facebook as potential employers may take those things into account. One group of Virgin Atlantic employees recently started a Facebook group in which they openly traded insults and complaints about customers and colleagues -- and 13 of those workers were fired. Resume and career expert Milligan reminds users, "If you're an employee, you have to be considered an advocate of your employer at all times."


4. Mind your identity. Another plus of keeping your privacy settings high or, ideally, keeping your profile strictly professional, is that you're less likely to divulge personal information that could leave you at risk of identity theft. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal email account was famously hacked by someone who successfully guessed the answers to her security questions. Avoid divulging your pets' names, your mom's maiden name, and other details that could leave you vulnerable to fraud by including only professional details on any social-networking site.


5. Don't get sucked in. Swan, whose practice is based in Los Angeles, says, "I've been hearing that entrepreneurs are getting a lot of encouragement to be on Facebook and they're marketing full force that way. But it's not the be-all, end-all solution for marketing. It may have some value toward your bottom line, but it may not if you're spending too much time on it. Check your return on investment."


Milligan adds, "It cannot be your priority. The time you spend on it cannot infringe on your professional life."


As recruiters and companies look to Facebook as an additional source of finding new talent, it behooves you to at least be familiar with such sites. Swan states, "In terms of new partnerships and for job-search purposes, it can be a great networking tool to let people know about you, and it's a great way to learn about people and companies and options. Just be sure to use these sites in a savvy manner to your benefit."


Milligan warns, "If job-search tools will be available, if that is the conduit between you and a job, you'd better be professional."

Nissan Nuvu Concept

Nissan's Nuvu concept (think "New View") is Nissan's vision for the type of car we'll be driving in cities by the middle of next decade. Although it is an electric car, Nissan says the Nuvu is not the electric car the company recently announced it will sell in the U.S. and Japan in 2010. The Nuvu does carry some technology destined for the production vehicle.As befitting a proper city car, the Nuvu is small: about a foot longer than a Smart Fortwo.

A unique 2+1 seating arrangement allows for a third passenger when needed, or the seat can be folded down. Unlike many city cars, the Nuvu has enough luggage capacity for a proper supermarket run.Of note, the Nuvu's roof has 12 small leaf-shaped solar panels, which charge the battery via a "tree-trunk" within the car. And to further emphasize the Nuvu's "green-ness," the cabin makes use of natural, organic and recycled materials.

"Nuvu is a concept car, for sure, but it is an entirely credible vehicle," says Francois Bancon, the general manager of Nissan's Exploratory and Advanced Planning Department.

World with Phone Revolution .

N97

Nokia has unveiled N97; a new flagship model with a large touch screen which it hopes will bolster its smartphone offering.
The world's largest cell phone maker Nokia is calling the new smartphone `the world's most advanced personal computer.'
Incidentally, N97 is the second touchscreen device from the stable of Finnish handset giant; the company unveiled its first touch handset, the 5800 XpressMusic, in early October, more than a year after the iPhone debuted. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will hit the retail shelves in January 2009.
Other than iPhone, N97 is a direct rival to Sony Ericsson's X1 and HTC's Touch Pro -- which both use Microsoft's Windows software.
Here's looking into what the new Nokia NSeries entrant brings for the users.

The sleek handset pairs a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard. The slide-out QWERTY keyboard is a full 3-row. The smartphone transforms from a touch slate to a landscape QWERTY device. There's a tilting touchscreen display and a customisable home screen that can be personalised with widgets.
The wide touchscreen has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. The smartphone is reportedly 30 per cent thicker than iPhone.



N97 offers a powerful 32GB memory with microSD for adding 16GB more (making it a staggering 48GB), 5 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash), support for Nokia's N-Gage gaming system and handwriting recognition.
Other features include, a 3.5mm headset jack, microUSB port used for syncing and charging, Haptic feedback and 1500 mAh battery. The smartphone runs on S60, the latest version of Nokia’s Symbian operating system.

Nokia claims that the Nokia N97 will use a browser that supports Flash and Flash video. Making what many term a jab at Apple iPhone (which lacks Flash support), at a pre-launch event in New York, Bill Plummer, vice president, said that N97 enables "real Internet browsing--unlike some phones".
According to the company, N97 has up to 37 hours of music playback, 4.5 hours of video and a staggering 16.5 days of standby time.

Amazing Clouds

Clouds

Water is a shape shifter: familiar in its liquid and frozen forms, it is invisible in its third form, as a vapor, until it coalesces into clouds overhead or shrouds us in ghostly fog. One of nature's everyday wonders, clouds hide in plain sight until they are touched with the sun's glory at sunrise and sunset or pile up to form a lightning-generating, anvil-headed cumulonimbus thundercloud.

Burj Dubai to be even taller !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008 -October - Update








Burj Dubai to be even taller than planned



The Burj Dubai, already the world's tallest building, will be even bigger than originally planned, Emaar Properties said on Tuesday, as the developer looks to cement the tower's place in history.
Emaar said work raising the height of the mega-structure, which currently towers more than 636 metres above Dubai, was already underway.
The developer also set a deadline of September 2009 for the building's completion, meaning the project will be finished nine months behind schedule.
It said the final height of the Burj Dubai, which has been a closely guarded secret, would be revealed upon its completion.

International Real Estate CityScape Dubai-2008

Dubai, runs the world's largest conference of representatives of real estate CityScape.

International Real Estate CityScape Dubai-2008 is the world's largest event, to make investments in real estate and development.During the first two days of the Dubai International Exhibition Center was visited by more than 40 thousand people. At a time when the local real estate markets are prepared to confront disappointing analysts, people are literally flooded with CityScape Dubai.The exhibition CityScape Dubai project was launched 59-floor tower of seven world champion at Stave v ŽIVO Michael Schumacher (Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower - MSWCT).