The Winning New Issues: A Case Study

Why do some early stage ventures perform remarkably well while others fail? Is there a fairly accurate way to predict which emerging growth business will become a high performing success story and which a low performing disaster? Is there a way for investors to increase the likelihood of investing in “winners” and decrease the likelihood of investing in “losers”? These are the central questions addressed in this article

Financial shenanigans : how to detect accounting gimmicks and fraud in financial reports, 3rd ed./ Schilit

xii, 318 hal.: tab.; 21 cm

Financial shenanigans : how to detect accounting gimmicks and fraud in financial reports, 3rd ed./ Schilit

xii, 318 hal.: tab.; 21 cm

Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild

Abstract. Location awareness is an important capability for mobile computing. Yet inexpensive, pervasive positioning—a requirement for wide-scale adoption of location-aware computing—has been elusive. We demonstrate a radio beacon-based approach to location, called Place Lab, that can overcome the lack of ubiquity and high-cost found in existing location sensing approaches. Using Place Lab, commodity laptops, PDAs and cell phones estimate their position by listening for the cell IDs of fixed radio beacons, such as wireless access points, and referencing the beacons ’ positions in a cached database. We present experimental results showing that 802.11 and GSM beacons are sufficiently pervasive in the greater Seattle area to achieve 20-40 meter media