08.11.08
Emerging markets to drive M&A growth (Mobile penetration in emerging markets)
Emerging markets to drive M&A growth
07 August 2008
Emerging markets to drive M&A growthThe ongoing potential for rapid mobile subscription growth means that emerging markets are set to take over as the main driver of M & A activity, according to research released Thursday.
Findings from the Global Mobile M&A report, released by industry analyst and telecoms.com parent Informa Telecoms & Media, reveal that although M&A activity appeared to decline in 2007 and is likely to fall again in value in 2008, the number of deals still suggests an active market.
And while market consolidation traditionally represented the pattern in many of Europe and North America’s markets, increasing consumer demand for mobile service continues to attract investors to emerging markets, especially to Africa and the Indian sub continent.
Informa points to a market penetration of just 34 per cent across Africa and around 36 million net additions in the Indian sub-continent in the first quarter of 2008 alone, to illustrate the potential afforded by these two regions.
The analyst expects Vodafone to continue to focus on its emerging markets expansion strategy on the back of its $11.1bn purchase of Hutchison Essar in India, and its $4.5bn acquisition of Telsim.
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08.03.08
SocialPicks.com: a social network for stocks market portofolio managers. Create, share, and discuss stock picks and portofolios with stock market Gurus.
Social networks are transforming the way we live, think and interact with others.
They are spurring in each and every aspect of life, most of them are based on the idea of gathering people with the same interests in one place and offering them every possible way to interact together.
In addition to that, each specializes in a function, i have found social networks for bookmarks management, socializing, photo sharing, authors and blogs. sharing music and sharing video. The list can go on forever without a stop, i have even found social networks that offer you the ability to create your own social network and invite others to join it.
One common feature in almost all of them is basically allowing us to sharing everything digital we can put our hands on.
But i just found this new site (at least new to me), www.socialpicks.com, it is a social network dedicated to stock market portfolio managers, stock marketers , investors in US stocks and just about anyone interested in the US stock market.
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Social Picks is a website that offers its members (free membership of course, you just have to sign up) to share their stock picks with other users on the network. Once you create an account, you are asked to to choose your Bulls and Bears, in other words, which stocks do you think will rise and which will fall. after submitting your picks, you are now an Analyst (a starter in the stock market world) and able to view other users’ portfolios. Start following your picks and be compared to others.
Socialpicks.com - My portfolio
Stock Picks offer a Scoreboard that tracks each user’s portfolio, and each user is ranked according to his portfolio percentage return. The higher the rank , the better portfolio manager you are, and the more followers you will get. Followers are other users who agree with your stock picking (i.e. investing) views in the market, or may just interested in your picks and thus choose to follow your portfolio.
Place a comment on your picks to start earning points and move up the stock market managers ladder.
