Which is the highest quality video merger for my youtube videos?

Posted by admin on March 10th, 2010 and filed under merger | 2 Comments »

Hey which is the highest quality (The Best) video merger for the 2 minutes parts i have done for youtube to merge them together neatly? I have used one and it was very low quality…
Thank you…

Combine them with movie maker…

— This will help you….

use windows movie maker (included in your windows machine)… it can help you make beautiful slideshow or video clip(e.g. mixing your songs with pictures/video/lyric/etc)…. then save it as video file such as wmv file format… finally upload.

or .. Just get those clips you want , save & convert them, and then mix/match with pix/sound/etc using windows movie maker to create new masterpieces….

this will help you…. Use ‘zillatube’. This is the easiest (and also the fastest) way.

Zillatube produces mpg/mp3 formats from youtube that are compatible with windows movie maker(or media player), and more.

It is very easy to download and convert videos. Then edit those converted mp3/mpg videos with windows movie maker… save your file as wmv and then upload.

It works very well….just google search for "zillatube"

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Leo Laporte – TechTV/G4 merger

Posted by admin on March 10th, 2010 and filed under merger | 1 Comment »

Talking about the TechTV/G4 merger, ensuing layoffs, and the future of internet television. November 20, 2004.

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How can I avoid tax from a cash merger ?

Posted by admin on March 8th, 2010 and filed under merger | 1 Comment »

I have shares of a private company which was acquired for cash by a public company in Jan 07. A check for about $30k will be mailed to me soon for my shares. What is the best way to avoid as much tax as possible ?

I am self employed but don’t know how much money I will earn this year. So for example, can I put all of the $30k into my SEP IRA thereby avoid paying tax on it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

It is really too late. The contribution to the SEP will help reduce taxes but you may not be able to contribute very much.

You should get some help from a competent tax advisor like a CPA.

News Update: Astellas Pharma Sues OSI Pharma (NASDAQ:OSIP) for Attempting to Block Merger

Posted by admin on March 7th, 2010 and filed under merger | No Comments »

3/2/2010-Astellas Pharma said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit to prevent OSI Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:OSIP) and its directors from taking actions to block Astellas’s unsolicited tender offer for all of OSI’s outstanding shares.

Astellas also seeks to prevent OSI from enacting its “poison pill” shareholder rights plan, which would also impede a takeover.

The tender offer of $52 per share in cash commenced early today.

Shares of OSI Pharmaceuticals are trading 0.4% higher to $56.46.

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Would a merger of the New Zealand dollar and Australian dollar be good for both economies?

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2010 and filed under merger | 5 Comments »

What would be the pros and cons or this? Also what’s you opinion on the effect of the Euro on Europe. Do you think it’s been good or bad for Europe.

When the currencies of two or more countries combine:

Pros:
- Increase in stability of currency – typically, countries that do this have volatile exchange rates that they want to control. many smaller countries have simply abandoned their currency and are using the us dollar because of the relative low volatility and high confidence in the us dollar

- Easier to maintain foreign capital reserves – lower volatility means less headaches for central banks to maintain foreign capital reserves

- Stimulates cross border capital investments and trade – let’s say you have a very stable currency. that means companies in other countries are more likely to trade with you, to lend you money, to build factories, etc. this is the single greatest reason for and benefit from the consolidation of the eu euro. from this perspective, the euro has been a great success. a good example of how wild currency movements can kill companies is the issue with many companies in asia during the asian currency crisis. many of them that had spent huge dollars buying expensive high tech manufacturing equipment from the us so that they could use this equipment to build things and sell back to the us. when the currency got crushed, suddenly they were in a position where they incurred huge debt but could not sell the finished products back to the us and europe to recoup their investment. these companies got crushed. you can hedge against currency movements, but it’s expensive, and most companies quite frankly don’t do a good job hedging, so currency volatility is a big risk these days that impedes greater trade.

- Bigger benefits for little countries or countries with volatile currency

Cons:
- Loss of autonomy for monetary policy – now, no country has the ability to just print more money or set interest rates without consulting with the other members. there is a definite incentive to beggar thy neighbor. in the euro, if germany thought interest rates should be at 4% but italy set interest rates at 0%, then italian companies would be getting a better rate and enjoy advantages to easier credit. the 0% would create an inflationary pressure that would affect all the euro countries whereas the 0% advantage would help italian companies.

overall, the euro was and will continue to be very good for trade and capital investment among the euro countries.

a merger between australia and new zealand does make as much sense because australia is so much larger an economy than new zealand. for australia, it adds hassle without much reward. for new zealand, a merger like this in practice will not be very different from simply converting to the australian dollar. if new zealand had currency problems or really wanted capital from australia, it would make sense. but since there does not appear to be any problems, they wouldn’t want to give up their control over monetary policy.

Is there a published list of merger and acquisition activity involving UK companies?

Posted by admin on March 4th, 2010 and filed under merger | 1 Comment »

I need to know purchase price and dates for a university study I have coming up. Preferably this list will cover the last 3yrs minimum and include private to private, public to private, MBOs and MBI’s. Thank-you.

Here is a link, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk=72, to a website maintained by the British Government that provides data on merger and acquisition activity involving UK companies.

Hopes this help.

Richard
http://www.answers-for-business.com/

WST: 14.1 Merger Modeling Basics – Accretion Dilution

Posted by admin on March 4th, 2010 and filed under merger | No Comments »

Wall St. Training Self-Study Instructor, Hamilton Lin, CFA calculates the accretion dilution of a merger, one of the most important analyses and end outputs to analyze.

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If the Justice Department challenge a merger between two firms in industry with ten equal-sized firms results?

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under merger | 1 Comment »

Determine if the Justice Depatment would challenge a merger between two firms in an industry with ten equal-sized firms,based on its Herfindahl-index guidelines only.

This index is defined as the sum of the squares of the market shares of each individual firm. The calculation will be somewhere between 0 and 1. The closer an individual firm is to 1, the closer they are to being a monopoly, which the DOJ rightly will not allowed – in most instances anyway.

The ultimate question is if competition is lessened by the merger. This determination is assisted by the index, but is subjective. I’d guess that trends over the past couple of measurable periods will go into the final determination as well.

The link below is from the DOJ website, and spells out how they go about determining if a merger helps competition, or hurts competition.

Rocketboom: Mechanical Oddities, Yahoo Merger, My …

Posted by admin on March 1st, 2010 and filed under merger | 24 Comments »

story links:

Rocketboom Mashup by Ronen:
http://ronen.tumblr.com/

Hydrodynamic rotsisseries
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/04/remainders.html

The Mechanical Beanstalk
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/mechanical-beanstalk/

1951 Obituary Index
http://www.eastonpl.org/ObitPDF/1951.pdf

Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_(1952_film)

Students challenged to go complaint-free
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=179845&ac=PHnws

Sitar Hero
http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/30642244

Rocketboom Blog
http://blog.rocketboom.com

Magic Pen
http://www.bubblebox.com/play/puzzle/975.htm

Yahoo receives warning from the Death Star
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-05LetterPR.mspx

My Little Pony Master Chief Mashup
http://cgi.ebay.com/Master-Chief-From-Halo-OOAK-My-Little-Pony-Custom_W0QQitemZ200213139290QQihZ010QQ

A World of Custom “My Little Pony” Toys
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22my+little+pony%22+custom&

Charlton Heston died
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Heston

Showbiz Pizza Wolfpack 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT6nozaDkfs

Pizza.com sells for $2.6M dollars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331042.stm

via Slashdot
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/05/121256.shtml

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why do people sometimes start buying a stock after a merger is announced?

Posted by admin on February 28th, 2010 and filed under merger | 1 Comment »

A merger was announced today and then the stock of the company that is getting bought out keeps going up and people keep buying it.

Do they see some kind of benefit to it being in a merger and what could that benefit be.

Also, i read in the merger article that the shares might each be bought for 9 dollars each, But they have gone up from 9 in the morning to 12 dollars.

Speculation is the short answer.

Most of the time a "highly probable" merger at a "fair price" moves toward the "fair price" in giant step at the announcement and then slowly crawls toward the exact offer price as the merger date gets closer and closer. (See the BNI merger with BRK.A, as an example)

OTOH, in the case of a "less probable" merger and/or a "less or more than fair price" the price will bounce around as market players try to out guess each other on what the ultimate deal will be.

That is a long way of saying that all announcement are not created equally. Some are done deals before they are announced and some never happen.