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  1. svenhedin 13 maart 2008 19:57
    quote:

    Striker_ schreef:

    hoezo ellende? als je niet tegen een daling kunt moet je niet beleggen.
    En vat het vooral niet persoonlijk op.
    Men laat niets na om het aandeel naar beneden te sturen; dat valt mij zwaar tegen en is onverdiend.
    Dat bedoel ik dus met ellende.
    Wellicht trek het vanavond wel weer bij.
  2. Striker_ 13 maart 2008 20:14
    Ik weet niet hoe lang je gigm al volgt, maar dit gebeurt praktisch elk kwartaal. Achja, ze liggen nog steeds op koers om zo'n $1 winst te behalen dit jaar.

    De media speelt er trouwens ook lekker op in. Ze melden 8% groei Q4 2006 vs Q4 2007. Ze vergeten alleen even de eenmalige boekwinst van 2 miljoen eraf te trekken. 13,5 cent tot 18 cent = 33% groei. Niet slecht dus.
  3. svenhedin 13 maart 2008 20:17
    quote:

    Striker_ schreef:

    Ik weet niet hoe lang je gigm al volgt, maar dit gebeurt praktisch elk kwartaal. Achja, ze liggen nog steeds op koers om zo'n $1 winst te behalen dit jaar.

    De media speelt er trouwens ook lekker op in. Ze melden 8% groei Q4 2006 vs Q4 2007. Ze vergeten alleen even de eenmalige boekwinst van 2 miljoen eraf te trekken. 13,5 cent tot 18 cent = 33% groei. Niet slecht dus.
    Ja, dat las ik ook op Yahoo.
    Misschien dat analisten het koersdoel later wel weer hoger zullen bijstellen.
    Ik las van een analist dat het koersdoel van %25 verlaagde naar $23. Dat is m.i. dus tenonrechte.
    Het bedrijf heeft qua potentie mijn vertrouwen wel.
  4. Striker_ 13 maart 2008 20:27
    Mja de cijfers waren prima al waren de marketing kosten hoger dan verwacht en de marges daardoor lager. Maar de 12% groei van EP maakt dat wel weer goed.
    Verder weer erg jammer dat de launches zijn uitgesteld en dat er verder niets concreet is bekend gemaakt over M4$, UIM japan of de ISP verkoop. Het is nog steeds EP wat de kar trekt en niet iedereen is daar gelukkig mee.
  5. Striker_ 25 maart 2008 19:38
    GigaMedia: No Concern about Canada Regulatory Position
    Tuesday March 25, 10:58 am ET

    HONG KONG, March 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- GigaMedia Limited ("GigaMedia" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: GIGM - News) today reaffirmed its view that the regulatory and licensing situation in Canada and the territory of Kahnawake is reliable and stable and that the Company has no concern over related business interruptions.

    On the basis of communications with Canadian counsel and government officials, the Company believes no change in the current licensing system is contemplated. Moreover, in accordance with best practices, GigaMedia maintains disaster recovery and alternate hosting arrangements.

    A financial website yesterday suggested GigaMedia faces the possibility of a near-term revenue hit from a change in Canadian regulations, a statement for which the Company finds no basis.

    GigaMedia's poker and casino software products continue to deliver strong growth in 2008, driven by Everest Poker, one of the world's most popular poker sites and the sponsor of the World Series of Poker.

    biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080325/hktu003.h...
  6. Striker_ 27 maart 2008 00:25
    Merrill Lynch Initiated Coverage on Chinese Internet Gaming Stocks
    March 26, 2008 12:09 PM EDT

    Merrill Lynch initiated coverage on Chinese Internet Gaming Stocks today - Perfect World (Nasdaq; PWRD) +0.40%, Shanda Interactive (Nasdaq: SNDA) +1.30%, and Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) +2.09% with a Buy. Merrill also initiated coverage on Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA) -0.44%, and The9 Ltd. +0.34% with a Neutral.

    Also, yesterday, a Brean Murray analyst made positive comments on the sector, saying the recent decline in NetEase 'seemed unjustified', reiterated the 'Buy' rating on PWRD, and also highlighted The9 Ltd and GigaMedia (Nasdaq: GIGM).

    Over the past six months, these stock are down between 1 and 40% and for one year, between breakeven and down 50%.[SM]

    www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comment...
  7. Striker_ 3 april 2008 19:50
    www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article...

    Hearing on UIGEA Underlines Severe Flaws
    BY: BOB PAJICH | bob.pajich@cardplayer.com
    PUBLISHED: Wednesday Apr 02, 2008 01:50 PM

    The Question Persists: What Exactly is Online Gambling?

    This morning a House subcommittee heard testimony on the proposed rules that will be used to enforce the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and there was only one person in the room who thought the UIGEA will actually work as intended.

    That person was Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, who described gambling as a “scourge” and played a role getting it through. Others in the room weren’t so optimistic.

    Bank representatives warned that the proposed rules are so unclear and so sweeping that the UIGEA has a chance to cause “an erosion of the performance of the financial system,” according to Wayne Abernathy, the executive director of financial institution policy and regulatory affairs for the American Bankers Association.

    Even employees of the Treasury Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department, the two federal departments charged with creating the UIGEA rules banks will have to follow, politely told the Congressional members that the UIGEA and the gambling laws it references are so unclear that they doubt it will work as intended.

    Not only did the Treasury Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department have extreme difficulty writing the proposed rules, because exactly what is considered illegal online gambling isn’t defined by the UIGEA or the federal government, but they also warned that banks simply aren’t up to the task of examining every single financial transaction to make sure they are not for online gambling.

    “The payment system isn’t well-designed for this task, and that’s what we’re really struggling with,” testified Louise Roseman, the director of the division of reserve bank operations and payment systems.

    But it goes beyond the financial system, Roseman said: “The most prominent concern is the lack of clarity of what forms of gambling are unlawful.”

    Because the UIGEA doesn’t define exactly what online gambling is, the proposed rules do not, either. And, as it stands, it will be up to the banks to arbitrarily decide which transactions to allow, and which to block. The representatives of four organizations that represent bank spelled were not confident that it could be done.

    The UIGEA

    The UIGEA essentially forces banks and financial institutions into the law-enforcement business. The UIGEA calls for the banks to weed out and stop electronic transactions between people in the United States and “illegal Internet gambling” sites located overseas. It also calls for the banks to punish its customers who are caught by canceling their bank accounts.
    The UIGEA counts on current federal and state laws to define what constitutes online gambling, and according to Roseman, neither her employees nor even members of Congress really know exactly what, by law, should be prohibited. Most of these laws haven’t been reexamined or updated for decades. Subcommittee member Robert Wexler even described the current laws as “a totally inconsistent system of regulation.”

    Because the authors of the UIGEA failed to use their bill to clarify exactly what gambling services customers in America must be denied, the UIGEA puts it to the banks to decide what is legal and what is not. If the banks get it wrong, they’re subject to punishment.

    The UIGEA wasn’t passed on its own and saw little debate before drawing votes; it was added to an expansive bill designed to increase security at the nation’s ports, and it’s quite possible that many Congressional members didn’t even know the UIGEA was included. The political maneuver was pulled off during an 11th hour of debate of the Safe Port bill by former Sen. Bill Frist, Sen. Jon Kyl, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte. It passed after midnight, right before Congressional members were set to go on an extended election-year recess.

    Clear Banking Burden

    Today wasn’t the first time representatives of banking organizations gave Congressional members a bleak forecast for the UIGEA. In each hearing held for the UIGEA where they were invited to testify, banking representatives warned Congressional members that the burden of the UIGEA was too great and that they believed it would be ineffectual.

    Four banking representatives testified today: Harriet May for the Credit Union National Association, Abernathy for the American Bankers Association, Leigh Williams for the Financial Services Roundtable, and Ted Teruo Kitada for the Senior Company.

    All testified separately, but essentially had the same thing to say: They don’t believe that the banking system is an effective law-enforcement tool, and they don’t know how to interpret what exactly “unlawful Internet gambling” is.

    “There is no question that prosecuting unlawful Internet gambling poses numerous law-enforcement challenges,” Abernathy said. “Therefore, during Congressional consideration of UIGEA, the ABA stated clearly that while we did not support the legislative proposal, if the Congress chose to proceed with legislation, care was needed to avoid applying burdensome unworkable regulation to insured depository institutions. Unfortunately, the statute as enacted and the regulations as proposed are both burdensome and unworkable and are unlikely to result in stopping illegal Internet gambling.”

    Abernathy was asked how much the banks are expected to spend enforcing the UIGEA, but he couldn’t really say. He said banks with more than $100 million in assets have two or three employees who do nothing but collect data to weed out suspicious transactions that could be related to money laundering and terrorism. He said banks would probably need the same number for the UIGEA.

    Abernathy’s ABA represents 95 percent of the banks in the United States, and a majority of those have $125 million or more in assets. The ABA doesn’t divulge how many members it carries.

    May, who represented the Credit Union National Association, said the government already has called on the banking industry to police its citizens and worried that the strain of the UIGEA on credit unions will be too much.

    “Credit unions and other financial institutions are already burdened with heavy policing responsibilities,” May said. “Our compliance responsibilities under the Bank Secrecy Act and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) rules are extraordinary. We do not think that the Internet gambling law could be implemented without creating a list similar to what OFAC publishes to tell financial institutions who are the ‘bad guys.’”

    May went on to say that even if a list of restricted online gambling companies were made, it would be impossible for banks to ensure that every transaction is legal because there are so many different ways to transfer money online and because of how quickly the Internet changes.

    And, because the question of what exactly “unlawful Internet gambling” is has gone unanswered, the banks will most likely stop transactions that could be interpreted by some as gambling, such as bridge leagues, mah jong tournaments, or just about anything else that contains a deck of cards or a die.

    “I would expect that they would take a conservative approach and assume that all Net gambling is unlawful,” Roseman said.

    When enacted, the UIGEA will call for banks to review every
  8. Striker_ 3 april 2008 19:59
    single transaction by all of its customers to ensure that no money is going to online gambling sites. The banks say that they cannot handle the burden of playing detective, judge, and jury. The government is asking the banks to do their job, said Williams.

    “Our member financial institutions are very concerned that even with final adoption of our recommendations, the rule could impose significant compliance burdens on financial institutions by increasing their role in policing illegal activities, determining whether a transaction is illegal, or by imposing ambiguous compliance requirements that could be subject to wide variations in interpretation by regulators and law-enforcement agencies,” said Williams. “We believe these functions are more appropriate for law-enforcement agencies.”

    The banking representatives also expressed concerns on implementing the UIGEA. May estimated that it would take up to 18 months after the rules are finalized to get all of her banks online. Abernathy gave an estimate of up to two years.

    The hearing was titled “Proposed UIGEA Regulations: Burden without Benefit?” and was held for the Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology committee, which is a subcommittee of the House Committee of Financial Services.

    It was held specifically to go over the concerns that were raised about the proposed UIGEA rules by residents and organizations during a public comment period that went on into December. Now, the Treasury Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department will again look at the rules and possibly revise them.

    The testimony of all of today’s participants can be found in pdf form by clicking here:

    www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/finan...
  9. Striker_ 24 april 2008 01:12
    GigaMedia to Report First-Quarter 2008 Financial Results on May 13
    Tuesday April 22, 5:30 am ET

    HONG KONG, April 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GigaMedia Limited (Nasdaq: GIGM - News) announced today it will report its first-quarter 2008 financial results on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 before the market opens.

    Management will hold an investor webcast on May 13, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, which is 8:00 p.m. Hong Kong Time on May 13, 2008, to discuss GigaMedia's first-quarter 2008 performance. A link to the live and archived webcast will be available at www.gigamedia.com.tw .
  10. Striker_ 24 april 2008 01:15
    GigaMedia up after analyst starts coverage with "Buy" rating
    Wednesday April 23, 2:06 pm ET
    GigaMedia shares rise after analyst initiates coverage with "Buy" rating

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of GigaMedia Ltd. rose Wednesday after a Brean Murray Carret & Co. analyst began covering the company with a "Buy" rating, predicting the company can experience 40 percent sales growth in fiscal 2008.

    Shares of Taiwan-based GigaMedia, which develops and licenses online gaming software and runs an online gaming portal, rose 42 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $15.24. In the past year, the stock has traded between $9.02 and $25.42.

    In a client note, Brean Murray analyst Andrey Glukhov said he thinks the company can see this growth year over year, as well as 30 percent growth in fiscal 2009, without having to sacrifice its operating margin.

    "While the company stepped up marketing in (the second half of 2007), which fueled concerns about margin sustainability, we believe these concerns are inflated, as about half of the company's marketing spending is discretionary and can be tweaked to protect margins," he said.

    Glukhov thinks growth can come from GigaMedia's online poker Web site, Everest Poker, which is targeted mainly at non-English-speaking European countries, and its growing online games business, through which it runs several casual games in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

    The company has also gotten licenses to run some "significant" massively multiplayer online role-playing games in Southeast Asia, he said.

    This makes Glukhov "optimistic it can leverage that success to start obtaining licenses for mainland China, which would open to the company a highly attractive, fast-growing market."

    The analyst set a $22 price target for the stock and said its shares are attractively valued, in part because they have declined about 20 percent since the start of the year.

    biz.yahoo.com/ap/080423/gigamedia_mov...
  11. Striker_ 26 april 2008 14:04
    Brean Murray Comments

    • 1Q08 – Freestyle should shine. Our research suggests downloads of Freestyle in China in late January/early February were strong as a result of successful co-promotions with the movie Kung Fu Dunk. The game was one of the top 10 downloaded games on 17173.com. Further, T2CN has added two servers to the Freestyle server base, taking it from 9 to 11 during 1Q08 and suggesting healthy server utilization. Further, even though the co-promotions have ended, T2CN has continued to look for ways to attract traffic. Concurrent with the upcoming release of the next version of Freestyle, the company entered a marketing agreement with Kobe Bryant, who will also be featured in the game. In addition, the company is exploring the strategy of holding offline basketball tournaments to promote Freestyle’s brand.

    • 2Q08 – a low-risk and a high-risk play

    - The making of a gambling platform – embedding casino games into poker. GigaMedia plans to embed already-existing casino games into its core poker offerings so that poker players will be able to play other games during their downtime and will see an option to go play casino games on the logout screen. The company has already tested embedding casino games into the logout screen, and it saw a meaningful attach rate. In addition, several of the company’s competitors,
    such as Party Gaming, have already tested and validated this approach. We believe the evolution of the company’s poker site into more of a platform offering for online gambling is a low-risk move that will likely result in meaningful payback. We also note that a lot of new customers that GigaMedia and its competitors are acquiring in the poker business are casual players with relatively low revenue per
    ADRC characteristics, and giving these customers additional recreational offerings will help improve monetization.

    - Swinging for the fence – can you change consumer behavior in Japan? GigaMedia plans on introducing an online version of a Pachinko machine to address the Japanese market. Currently, there are no credible competitors in that market, and consumers are playing the game on real machines in Pachinko parlors. GigaMedia’s bet is that it can tap into the consumer that has limited time (e.g., 15 minute lunch break) and provide them an experience similar to the real Pachinko
    machine. The Pachinko market in Japan is 27.5 trillion yen per year (~$250 billion per year). Assuming, GigaMedia can tap into 0.1% of that market per year, it could double the size of the company. However, we are mindful of the fact that Japanese consumers don’t play Pachinko online now, and counting on a change in behavior is inherently risky. We also note that while we are likely to see the introduction of the
    Pachinko offering in late 2Q08, revenue from it is more relevant to late FY08 and even more to FY09.

    • 3Q08 – proven play on increased monetization of players through sports betting. The company already stated it is actively exploring partnership and acquisition opportunities in the sports betting space. GigaMedia customer surveys
    suggest about 30% of its target demographic both play poker and bet on sports.
    Currently, the company is not capturing this money, while some of its competitors already have a successful integrated offering. Consequently, the move to add sports betting is a defensive move that will likely to deliver numeous benefits to the company. We note that since there is a significant overlap in demographic, the company could realize meaningful leverage on customer acquisition cost, thus making any acquisition accretive faster. Further, sports betting introduces another channel for customer acquisition. Moreover, while historically GigaMedia shied away from the crowded markets like the U.K., one could argue that a successful sports betting acquisition may prove a backdoor to enter them and minimize upfront brand building costs. Most importantly, GigaMedia’s FY08 financial plans don’t include any revenue contribution from sports betting. Separately, the company is working on a Mahjong offering that it will license to different operators and that may provide an additional revenue stream. However, since it is not really differentiated content, we have very modest expectations on its potential.

    • 4Q08 – Online games should grow up. We are hearing that the company is close to licensing an important title for China, which could meaningfully improve GigaMedia’s visibility in that country. Further, if executed properly, it would prove
    that the company can successfully operate large titles on the mainland and help in further licensing discussions. We would not be surprised if the title will be launched prior to 3Q08, but would think that its commercial launch and associated revenue ramp will be in late 4Q08. Further, GigaMedia has a number of important licenses (Hellgate: London, WarHammer, NBA Street Online, Holic, etc.) for Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau. Our expectation is that at least one of those titles should contribute to 4Q08 results in those markets.

    Long-shot catalyst – opening of the U.S. market. The U.S. online gambling market was made illegal in 2006. While the ban on online gambling damaged market leaders such as
    PartyPoker, it created an opportunity for players such as Full Tilt and Poker Stars that are more aggressive in their interpretation of the legislation. For instance, according to Global Betting & Gambling Consultants (GBGC), within the current $2.9 billion online poker market, the U.S. accounts for $1.4 billion, suggesting that despite the enactment of the online gambling ban, the market remains large and very valuable for players that chose not to comply. We believe over time the U.S. should move from prohibition to regulation of online gambling, which opens a very significant market for GigaMedia. In April 2008, the House Financial Services Committee received proposed legislation to stop the
    implementation of the antigambling regulations. Importantly, we believe GigaMedia’s Everest Poker brand should get significant exposure in the U.S. through its sponsorship of
    the World Series of Poker. Our current forecasts do not assume any revenue from the U.S. market.
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