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...that put you off. In the early stages of a bull market, the most speculative stocks--in this case Internet, telecom and other techs that were left for dead in 2002--often get the biggest bounce. But in time, investors migrate to the stocks of proven companies that have been out of favor but are certain to benefit from an ongoing recovery...
...shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, telecom company China Netcom Corp., and possibly China Construction Bank, one of the mainland's four largest banks. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Chinese companies will raise $10 billion in IPOs in Hong Kong this year, about 50% more than...
...which said the bank must pay damages to Kirch. If that wasn't bad enough, Deutsche's chief executive Josef Ackermann goes on trial with five others in Düsseldorf this week. The charges stem from the €15 million bonus paid to Klaus Esser, former CEO of telecom and engineering giant Mannesmann, after it was taken over by Britain 's Vodafone. Thus far, investors don't seem put out; the bank's stock is near a 52-week high. But how is the bank supposed to get business done with its boss on trial for six months...
...large pool of low-wage, educated, English-speaking university graduates, the nation's creaky infrastructure reduces its competitive edge by raising costs for entrepreneurs. Vikram Talwar, who heads ExlService, a Delhi-based outsourcing company that handles calls and processes forms for American credit-card and insurance companies, says his telecom costs are three times higher than they would be in a country like Thailand. India's backward public-transportation system means he has to hire cars to take his employees home at night, which adds another 3% to 5% to his annual expenses. And India's electrical grid...
Another new breed of software called presence-aware applications understands where and how to contact employees--at all times. European telecom giant Siemens has just released a product called HiPath OpenScape, which allows, for example, a salesperson who is in an important pitch meeting to find a product specialist immediately, whether the specialist is in the office, in the car or at home. Smaller companies like Sylantro, based in Campbell, Calif., offer to phone companies similar products that they house in their networks and that the phone companies can in turn offer to their customers. "We're helping to usher...