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Posted on 03.13.07 by Nikhil @ 12:20 pm
A number of wireless Chinese stocks recently got hit with a triple whammy. Chinese companies with shares traded in the U.S. were hammered by the recent plunge in the Chinese market, the fall in the U.S. market and then, once again, by the recent actions of the Chinese government, which has been regulating the ways wireless content providers can market and sell their content. The situation has been so difficult that Tom Online (nasdaq: TOMO - news - people ), one of the biggest wireless portals in China, will soon be taken private by its parent company, Tom Group, so that its business can be restructured and its business strategy can be optimized without the pressures that face public companies. But while Tom goes private, there could now be some good opportunities for investors. One company that I think will reward investors this year is Beijing-based Hurray! Holdings (nasdaq: HRAY - news - people ). The company’s American Depository Shares, which now trade around $4.93, are down nearly 50% from the company’s 52-week high in April. Yet Hurray! is taking aggressive steps to revamp its business. Filed under: Stock Watch and Wireless Gaming and Applications and Cutting Edge Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 03.03.07 by Nikhil @ 4:19 pm
Shares of OmniVision Technologies have been hit hard, falling 49% over the past year. While the stock market correction contributed to the stock’s slide, OmniVision has lots of its own problems as well. I was once a fan of OmniVision Technologies (nasdaq: OVTI - news - people ), adding shares of the company to the Forbes Wireless Stock Watch Core Wireless Portfolio in 2005. Fortunately, I got out before the stock’s most recent fall. Back in 2005, OmniVision, which designs image sensors–silicon semiconductors that turn photons into electrons so that they can be processed, stored or displayed–made about 75% of revenues from selling its camera chips to developers of mobile phones. The company also made its chips available in a variety of other electronics, such as security cameras, Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation games and automobiles–to provide a rear image of what’s behind the car (useful when moving in reverse). Filed under: Stock Watch and Components Comments: Comments Off |

