For non citizens and non permanent residents (temporary residents included) who are trying to own/invest in real estate in Australia, you should first approach the Foreign Investment Review Board to gain approval before even considering buying. There’s a faq section which specifies clearly the different type of conditions.
2008 Best Companies To Work For and Top Paying Companies
So the list is out and guess who’s the most employee friendly company to work for?
Here are some tips:
– I use their product to monetize my site.
– I use their product to advertise online marketing and affiliate campaigns. [Read more…]
Perth Waterfront
Perth is planning its own Waterfront which will extend William Street and Mounts Bay area. It looks pretty nice and promising from the preliminary planning and design.
However, when will it be completed? According to the official FAQ:
The statutory approval phase would likely take 36 months, however efforts will be made to shorten that timeframe.
Stage 1A development starts with the Esplanade area in mid 2011, together with an expanded Supreme Court Gardens.
Stage 1B is the main waterfront circle constructed between mid 2012 and mid2013.
Stage 2 – Mounts Bay would be developed from 2016.
A full build-out is expected to take 15 – 20 years depending upon economic conditions at the time.
I’m not in the business of city/urban design, civil or structural engineering, but doesn’t that sounds a little bit too long? And how much taxpayer’s money will be used for the project?
IMHO, Perth definately needs one. The city is comparably boring and smaller then Australia’s major cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.
Hi5 Opens Up Developer Network
Hi5 is another popular social networking site that has recently release a developer platform for developers to develop applications. The end results will look something like the popular facebook apps which can allow users to run your app, share it and bring in some money for the developers if it gains a huge audience. Head over to the Hi5 Developer Network.
Yahoo Is Obviously Struggling
In an email to Yahoo workers, Mr. Yang said the board of directors has yet to decide how to respond to Microsoft’s offer to buy the veteran Internet company for $US44.6 billion ($50 billion) in cash and stock.
“Our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and evolving landscape,” Mr Yang wrote in the email, which was filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
“What’s become clear in the past few days is how much people care about this company. I’ve heard from many of you, and from other friends and colleagues from around Silicon Valley and across the globe, that we need to do what’s best for Yahoo and our shareholders.”
Microsoft’s unsolicited offer to pay the equivalent of $US31 per share for Yahoo highlights the 14-year-old California firm’s potential to recapture past glory, Mr Yang told employees.
That sounds interesting and motivating, MyMr. Yang. And smells fishy too.
Yahoo has said little more than its board is carefully reviewing options that include keeping Yahoo an independent company. Yahoo has received calls from “a number of interested parties” and has a wide range of strategic options, a source close to Yahoo told AFP.
Can there be some names? Where are all those private equity firms who like pouching valuable assets? Do they want to miss Yahoo? But then, $US44.6 Billion is not small cash, and Microsoft company has around USD$21.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities waiting to be reinvested. Who else have that much? Yeah, I know BHP does, but they are too busy pouching Rio Tinto for $US147.40 billion!
Those options include outsourcing online advertising to arch-rival Google, a proven master at pumping revenues from that well.
If it spurns Microsoft’s offer, Yahoo’s board of directors will be under pressure to give stockholders a soothing cash payout or even borrow money to buy back shares and turn the firm private.
Turn the firm private? I wonder how will that work out. If you know, please explain.
For some good reasons, I still think that Microsoft will be able to acquire Yahoo successfully. The question yet to be answered is just how long it will take.
Adsense Notifier Not Working Anymore?
So, it seems that one of my favorite Firefox Addon, Adsense Notifier, which allows you to display your Adsense earnings on the firefox statusbar has stopped working correctly.
Although it still gathers how many impressions are served, the rest such as Clicks, CTR, CPM, Earnings and RPC are all showing 0. It has been going on for almost a week since I started noticing about this problem, and some people are saying that it has not been working for a month now. [Read more…]
Filtering Out Competitive Ads
If you are a publisher using Google adsense to monetize your site, you may have the occassion of seeing irrelevant or totally useless ads that leads to pages that sucks and deceiving. You don’t want these kinds of ads to appear on your site, and especially when you know that they are low paying pay per click. [Read more…]
2007 Big Tech Buyouts
See why the tech sector in Silicon Valley so addictive and tempting. Because it’s rapidly changing, FULL of competition, lots of fun and creativity work involved, and well, earning you a few million bucks if you did it right and sold it to the big companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco and the list goes on. BusinessWeek listed 10 internet satrtups which are fortunate to grab some big cash by selling off their companies to larger ones.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/10/1011_luckyducks/index_01.htm
How Much Money Do You Earn Online?
I have been asked this question again and again recently. Be it my mum and dad, brother and sister, and even my girlfriend.
Can someone really earn a living online? Yes, you can and I’ve met and seen people doing this. Some people started small and work their way up while some owns a network a sites using different monetization methods to pull in a good amount of money every day.
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The Subprime Meltdown
Looks like 2008 will be a tough year for everyone. If you have the money and the right plan, this sure sounds like a good time to buy up assets especialy when they are CHEAP! I bet there will be lots of people saying that “cash is king” and while some shout “the sky is falling down” and so called “financial guru” or “fortune teller” will definately start marketing their get rich magic formula all their way from Alabama to Zimbabwe.