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Lending Club: More time :) eHub: Do you have a business model
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Apple sold around half a million iPhones the first weekend the device went on sale, one analyst firm has estimated
Jul 2 '07 -Business- crave.cnet.com -apple,sunday,stores
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Carlyle is in the early stages of talks with Virgin Media, the New York Times and Washington Post reported today, quoting sources familiar with the negotiations
Jul 2 '07 -Business- guardian.co.uk -virgin,media,carlyle
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In April, analysts said the company was in an "enviable position of being the last publicly traded, national skilled nursing provider that predominantly owns real estate"
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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The VoIP service providers including Vonage have been having a bad year as cable companies have started to flex their muscles and offering triple play services
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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Update: Andy Abramson has more details on the story
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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Piper Jaffray said Apple had iPhones available in each one of its stores on Saturday, and in 84 percent of its stores Sunday
Jul 2 '07 -Business- crave.cnet.com -apple,sunday,stores
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I was too busy to shop around for lower rates and read the fine print
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Manor Care Inc.became the latest health-care company to be taken private, after agreeing to be bought by private-equity firm Carlyle Group for about $6.3 billion
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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I am getting on a plane in about 10 minutes and if they get in touch before that, I will update the post
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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The VoIP service provider claims that it has 200,000 subscribers
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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Still no word from the company or their PR department
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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Person-to-person lending is a truly useful service: we help people obtain affordable financing for the projects they care about, or refinance high interest rate debt, or just make more out of their savings
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault by the cable companies is rumored to have hit a major airpocket today
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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Our sources say that the company laid off about 40 of its employees, including some C-Level executives
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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"Conglomerate" is just an old word for what you call "Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google"
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.joelonsoftware.com -find,townsend,good
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On Friday, Manor Care shares closed the regular trading session up 2.5%, at $65.29
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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Lending Club: I think the emergence of person-to-person lending as an alternative to banking is inevitable, because it is just a more efficient way of moving money from one person to another
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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The Toledo, Ohio, nursing-home operator said shareholders will receive $67 a share, a 20% premium to the closing price of $55.75 on April 10, the day before Manor Care said it would evaluate strategic alternatives
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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Lending Club: We now have 21 people and will be adding another 20 in the next 6 months
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Sir Richard reportedly wants to retain a stake in the business
Jul 2 '07 -Business- guardian.co.uk -virgin,media,carlyle
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After an initial rise in share price in April, speculation on Manor Care was reignited in late June when the company filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing new employment agreements with senior management
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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John Donovan developed and managed credit and debit products for Mastercard for 17 years, and Joaquin Delgado was my CTO at TripleHop and has a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in matching algorithms and user profiling
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Lending Club: We use complex algorithms and highly secure financial processes, yet strive to make it simple for the user
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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About half were new customers for AT&T, at least among the 253 people surveyed for the report.
Jul 2 '07 -Business- crave.cnet.com -apple,sunday,stores
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The founders - Joyce Dorris and Paul Erickson - left the company earlier this year, and now the only hope for the company is to raise more capital from its existing investors including Nokia
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -company,including,service
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Those agreements addressed specifically what would happen in the event of a "change of control"
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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The 3 main team members are myself (Renaud Laplanche), John Donovan and Joaquin Delgado
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Technology can be used to match lenders with borrowers, and identify connections among people through social networks and online communities
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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In the next 2 years, our goal is to make person-to-person lending mainstream: we want to make it so easy, simple and economically efficient that it is the first option borrowers think of, before even thinking of charging their credit cards or walking into a bank
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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We have a diverse background of entrepreneurship, financial services and technology: before founding Lending Club, I founded TripleHop Technologies and sold it to Oracle in 2005
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Lending Club: I founded Lending Club in the summer of 2006
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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The approach from Carlyle has prompted the Virgin Media board to ask its advisor, Goldman Sachs, to review options for taking the company private, several UK papers reported today
Jul 2 '07 -Business- guardian.co.uk -virgin,media,carlyle
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Lending Club: We launched exclusively on Facebook on May 24, 2007
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Lending Club: Lending Club users must be US residents for regulatory reasons, but they are distributed across all 50 states
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster released a report Sunday night estimating that Apple sold about 500,000 units from 6 pm Friday through the close of business Sunday
Jul 2 '07 -Business- crave.cnet.com -apple,sunday,stores
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The Global Resorts Perpetual Leverage compensation is also a first in the industry for members to earn $1,000 commissions on each qualified sale from unlimited width, as well as depth
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -resorts,global,business
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Manor Care's financial adviser is J.P.Morgan.Carlyle Group's financial advisers are Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Banc of America Securities.
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april
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On Mergers: If you have a good company don't sell out to a conglomerate...
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.joelonsoftware.com -find,townsend,good
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Instead, a few friends offered to lend him the money he needed, at a 10% interest rate
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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All these features will be available in the coming weeks
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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However, this valuation excludes the cable company's debt
Jul 2 '07 -Business- guardian.co.uk -virgin,media,carlyle
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In the next 6 months, we will be focusing on making the platform even easier to use and adding a few key features, and will also be expanding beyond Facebook
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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I'm reading two very good management books right now
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.joelonsoftware.com -find,townsend,good
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These connections build up trust on the lender side and responsibility on the borrower side
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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We also have team members who joined us from eBay, Oracle, Wells Fargo, Razorfish and Photobucket
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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An international search is believed to be under way for a new supermarkets boss, with discussions having already started with a number of candidates.
Jul 2 '07 -Business- news.com.au -coles,wesfarmers,share
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By working together, members can borrow money at a better rate than they would get from a bank, or invest in a pool of loans at higher rates than those served by savings accounts
Jul 2 '07 -Business- www.emilychang.com -lending,club,people
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Manor Care operates short-term post-acute and long-term care centers, with 60,000 employees and more than 500 facilities and hospice and home-care agencies, using the Heartland, ManorCare Health Services and Arden Courts names
Jul 2 '07 -Business- online.wsj.com -care,manor,april

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