Calling all Kuwaiti investors
Investindustrial, the private equity company controlling 84.6% of Ducati Motor Holding SpA, is considering selling their Ducati shares in a private offering next year. The stocks will only be available to large corporations like banks, and investment groups who also may also sell these stocks to the public.
Ducati posted earnings of $155 million in 2010, doubled its market share and increased its presence in Asia despite the global economic crises AND is planing to introduce several NEW MODELS in November.
Could Ducati become the next Italian Kuwaiti ?
A matter of perception
Dedicated to all who share the same passion.
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Got Nuts !
Pro-Bolt is a 10 year old family run business form the UK, they supply a wide range of high quality motorcycle bolts and accessory kits. Their products are available in Aluminum, Stainless Steel and Titanium with each material offering its own benefits and strengths dependent on the application.
Whether you are looking to rebuild, customise, enhance or reduce the weight of your bike, Pro-Bolt has the bolts and nuts for the job. Be it a Streetfighter, a Road Bike, a Sports Bike, a Superbike or an Offroader they will probably have the bolts for it and in five different colors.
They also supply the majority of the Superbike Teams, so the quality of there products are unquestionable.
Crash Harley crash
Lion
I have been hesitant to upgrade to Lion fearing compatibility issues, but after reading some reviews and a lot of googling i finaly upgraded. While installing, Lion checks for incompatible softwares and place them in a special folder.. i had only one incompatible software which i don’t use, i even did not know i still have it.
The finder windows has a new look, the systems prefs got some nice upgrades especially the Trackpad pane which now has lots of new gestures, the Users & Groups pane and the Mail app got some new features as well. The new trackpad gestures makes you feel as if you are using completely new apps, most of the apps can now run in full screen, a great feature if you are using a Mac with a small screen.
What i did not like is the Launchpad feature, a feature Apple bragged a lot about. The feature displays all your apps including some of the installers and the uninstallers!! but unlike the i devices you can’t remove any of the apps form the Launchpad, and the only way to hide these apps is by grouping them in a folder !!
I have been using the system the whole day today, and am still discovering new features, which i believe will take some time to remember, getting used to and start using them.
I downloaded Lion using this torrent
Best Of Ramadan
The title might be misleading but am referring to TV commercials.
Every Ramdan most of the local banks and telecom companies air their new TVCs’ on local satellite TV channels, a trend that picked up around 7-8 years ago when watching satellite channels was the thing to do -for some reason- in Ramadan !
Now with all the smart phones, ipads, social media and other micro communication tools, does anyone watch TV anymore, you know like we used to in the old days ? like a family spending the evening around TV watching a movie or a TV show form a satellite channel.
I think we still do but the numbers are very little and doesn’t justify the money spent for advertising on these channels, i believe the internet has morphed satellite TV and turned it into an entertainment tool for kids and the elderly…those who aren’t using the internet yet or have nothing better to do on their laptops, ipads or smart phones.
Personally i only watch the news from satellite channels like Jazeera, Arabia, BBC, and sports channels like ESPN and Eurosport, i also watch movies that i download. But whenever i feel like wasting time i watch satellite TV, i just keep flipping between channels until i feel dizzy and go to sleep.
What i wanted to say is that i have watched almost all of ramadan TV commercials form NBK, Zain, GulfBank etc. either on my laptop or on my iphone and believe it or not i haven’t seen any of them on TV yet.
If you would like to watch them visit Blog 37,i think he posted all of them :-* فُـله .
The Arai Story
Extreme in the wild
Another spy photo of the new 1199, courtesy of http://ducatisti.myblog.it .
Moto GP- Super Bike
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