This guest post is written by Dr. Tony Webb, Director, Analytics for FINCAD. Patents have been in the news a lot recently. In July, bankrupt Nortel Networks sold thousands of patents to an alliance made up of Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony, Ericsson, and others for $4.5 billion in cash. This alliance beat out bids from Google and Intel. A big reason for these bids was interpreted to be defensive, in

This guest post is written by Matt Streeter, Product Manager at FINCAD. Taking a look at the events influencing market performance from the past several weeks, we see that these are surely exciting times, depending on the seat you’re in and how you define ‘excitement’. Greece’s potential slide into the abyss, the longer term fate of the Euro and stagnation in the US teamed with the Buffett Tax have all

This guest post is written by Gurpreet Banwait who is the director of Insight Solutions Product Management at FINCAD. Twenty or thirty years from now, when people look back on this time period, will we view the US as having been through a depression? Wikipedia defines a depression as a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies. It is a more severe downturn than a recession.

This guest post is written by Gurpreet Banwait who is the director of Insight Solutions Product Management at FINCAD. It seems every few years a new scandal is uncovered where information provided by a company is found to be fraudulent and investors are left wondering where their money has gone. We’ve certainly seen a number of Ponzi schemes over the years, and when you see the list on Wikipedia it’s

Vacations are a privilege. Sure they are a right, too. Getting everyone’s work-life balance right is important for both the individual and the company that employs him or her. But when I get a vacation I feel grateful, because for a lot of years I really couldn’t take much time off. That’s the price that everyone who has started a business knows too well. Fortunately for me the days of