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T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on World's Largest Wind Farm
in IfEnergy, on July 13, 2009
© jurvetson
A number of sources ( BusinessWeek , the News Tribune , Forbes , Fast Company ) are covering the news that Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone pickens has thrown in the towel (for now, at least) on his efforts to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas.
BusinessWeek ...
If You LIKE the Clouds, You'll Love Google's Chrome OS (Maybe)
in Web 2.0, on July 10, 2009
...louds.
Lifehacker has a good list of features by which we can eventually judge Chrome OS.
My biggest concern is simple. I live in a rural area. I have broadband access. But I also have problems ...
What recession? Small arms trade is booming
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
... between 2000 and 2006, according to the Small Arms Survey 2009. The study found that the US is the biggest importer of pistols and revolvers, sporting shotguns and small-caliber ammunition. This is ...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
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Nanotube manufacturer SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. this week announced $3 million in funding from Michigan's Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP.
"Insight will manage the fun...
Facebook for fogeys
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...ere , has found that the 55 and older crowd is poised to overtake high schoolers and younger as the biggest users of Facebook. As PCWorld's Jared Newman points out, Facebook's just not cool an...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
... different times in the calendar. Having said that, I acknowledge that a La Dolce Vita Scholarship Fund has been established to assist young people aiming to follow a career in automotive design, sh...
已经确认 Windows 7 RTM 于本月 13 日完成
in Wangtam, on July 5, 2009
...son's Memorial: The Biggest Web Event in History?
• TweetCraft: Finally, You Can Tweet While You Raid
• Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store.
• Turn Web Content Into A Map With GeoMaker...
New blog on social entrepreneurship from College of Wooster
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 5, 2009
... inaugural Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) program. The trip is supported by the Smucker's Fund for Global Ethics.
For any new followers of our blog, here is a more linear collection of...
Why Do We Get Hangovers (and What to Do About It)
in Celebrate Wine, on July 5, 2009
...HY it happens...
Douglas Green has a good explanation available for why hangovers happen. The biggest culprit? A toxin called congeners . What to do? Douglas Green has some answers.
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Housing slump boosts population in New York City, other big cities
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 3, 2009
...denly, not as many folks are rushing to these sun-soaked communities.
This has benefited the three biggest cities in the United States. According to Census Bureau reports, New York City's populat...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...r and over since the 1920s - and now they're preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet." He talks about how Goldman honchos infiltrated the US ... ...tment bank to a bank-holding company, a move that allowed it access not only to $10 billion in TARP funds, but to a whole other publicly backed funding, including lending from the discount window of t...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...ders who knew nothing about banking, budgets or financial matters. Yet here they were, handling the biggest transactions that most people ever make. It was a bit terrifying.
Back then, though, everyo...
ExxonMobil funds climate sceptics
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
... footprints all over this? Maybe, when The Guardian reveals damning evidence that the world's biggest oil company has been pouring money into lobby groups campaigning against environmentalists a...
NetworkingForPros.com Puts You on the Web
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
© Dmitry Baranovskiy
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for eCommerce and business. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the web at the mome...
Your Company Website
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should.
SimplWeb has an online course available to help you start a website. They describe it as "a free 7 part guide to creating a killer content site that ca...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...ith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading
• Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting
• Did Shaq J...
Michael Jackson's debt legacy
in Sox First, on June 26, 2009
...lion loan backed by Neverland. A big chunk of this debt was a $200 million loan secured against his biggest asset - a 50% interest in the publishing rights to his own music and 251 compositions by the...
Anti-corruption body slams major export countries
in Sox First, on June 25, 2009
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Transparency International has condemned some of the world's biggest exporters for failing to tackle bribery corruption. In its latest report , the anti-corruption body said some of the wo...
Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...
in TJ's Weblog, on June 23, 2009
Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics:
What is a grant?
Who can qualify?
How do you apply?
What types of grants are available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant?
Why would a grant application not b...
iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
in Wangtam, on June 21, 2009
• iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
• Embrace Your Femininity
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Linux
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for MacOS
• Sony should beware - Activision chief is not simply playing games
• That Was Quick: Veodia Acquires Screen C...
CTI and CommPartners Bring Hosted Call Recording to SMB Market
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...er Sid Rao. "Our hope is to make the solutions that have previously only been available to the biggest companies available to every company."
"SmartRecord IP is a hosted voice over IP...
Enjoying First Grade
in The Parenting Weblog, on June 19, 2009
My son is truly enjoying first grade. It has been 2 weeks and he is already having a blast.
Though we both have to adjust to waking up early (classes are from 710 to 1130 in the mornings and 1 to 4 in the afternoons), we have slowly gotten there. I don't just rely on one alarm clock, I hav...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...9;s shopkeepers' association last year did a study showing that the mafia is that country's biggest business. Not that this would surprise anyone who has spent some time there. Still, maybe t...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...ething about the lobbyists, any reform runs the risk of beign hijacked by vested interests. But my biggest concern about the package is that it does nothing about the ratings agencies which caused th... ...d ultimately destructive side bets that financial institutions make. And finally, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchan...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...mology , assisting and educating the blind and visually impaired. The Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund is a co-sponsor. The annual automotive design show, held Sunday, June 21, features more than 200...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manufacturing Co. is going to cut it in a global market. But a name change might be necessary. "If ...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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So the International Monetary Fund has given the US economy, and by implication the Obama administration, a big tick of sorts in its latest report . The IMF projects that the economy will contrac...
Cannabis As Diabetes Treatment
in Daily Diabetic, on June 16, 2009
...e led the team that developed GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia, which became the company's second-biggest selling drug until sales plunged in 2007 after a study linked it to a higher risk of heart at...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...
Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their religious standards. Koogle screens out such forbidden material as sexually explicit images or pict...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
... a son for whom all of this was about now unable to attend college because Madoff stole his college fund as surely as he stole our future. "Madoffs investors have been put in a position of years...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...
Other Money Saving Tips for Your Air Conditioning
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 15, 2009
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Probably one of your biggest monthly expenses comes from either heating or cooling of your house. This also means that it is an area where a lot of money can be saved, too, if you foll...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 12, 2009
One of the least noticed natural wonderlands in the tourist world today is Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia.
During the 52 days between June 20th and August 10th it usually breaks 85F degrees in Ulan-Ude (on the shores of Lake Baikal) less than a dozen times each year. The high temperature is more...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...
Introducing Fedora 11
in HackITLinux, on June 10, 2009
...e underpinnings of the operating system. I just want it to work.
This is, in fact, Fedora 11's biggest selling point: it just works. And fast, too: from powering on to logging in takes 20 seconds...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...di, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, commodities, as well as art, continu...
Snow Leopard makes 7 look expensive
in The CIO Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...sing it with Outlook. Why buy a Mack truck and then use it only to haul your weekly groceries?
The biggest impact for business users may have nothing at all to do with Apple, and everything to do wit...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
..., including the iShares business.
BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own record in a hedge fund transaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management business for...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
© tedmurphy
I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in general. Author Lisa Bourne was lucky enough to get Copyblogger's Brian Clark, John Jantsc...
Social Networking With Purpose
in BootStrapMe, on June 7, 2009
Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks.
The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...of Exchange, either.
Unfortunately, the profitability of the Enterprise division may be one of the biggest handicaps it faces in increasing market share. The infrastructure for Apps isn't separat...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...al Motors will emerge out of this bankruptcy? And what lies ahead for what was once the world's biggest car manufacturer? As Dennis Berman at The Wall Street Journal points out, the $65 billion...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...al nearly $93 billion, if there was a market price of $28.24. Not surprisingly, the sector with the biggest exposure is the utilities. If they had to pay for each metric ton of emissions, it would red...
Be honest with your finances before taking on a mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 2, 2009
...Many things have caused the housing slump the country is still working through.
But one of the biggest factors? Borrowers weren't honest with themselves before taking on their mortgage loans.
A...
What the GM bankruptcy means
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
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With General Motors filing for bankruptcy , the biggest manufacturer do so with its debts more than double its assets, the question needs to be asked about what this means for the auto industry,...
Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...g an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about...
Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...in Dublin, Guinness has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. The money is aimed to support approximately twenty-five social entrepre...
Facebook 公布 fbFund 基金获奖名单
in Wangtam, on May 30, 2009
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Facebook 本周公布了 fbFund 基金的 20 大赢家，其中包括 18 家创业公司和 2 家非营利机构。
为鼓励外部开发者为 Facebook 开发应用程序， Facebook 2007 年 9 月与 Accel Capital、Founders Fund 两家风险投资公司共同组建了 fbFund 基金，始创金额为 1000 万美元，并为符合条件外部开发人员提供 2.5 万到 2...
Antalya: Turkey's Mediterranean Playground
in Wandalust, on May 29, 2009
...ce the 1970's Turkey has developed Antalya and the surrounding coastline into the nation's biggest single attraction for international tourists. The city has an acceptable airport and the regi...
Amgad Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...meet the growing demand for natural color diamonds. In addition to offering the highest quality and biggest selection of loose diamonds on the market, Amgad also offers finished jewelry collections ...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporat...
The Genius Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on May 25, 2009
© Keith Allison
You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...
No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
... But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now: The money was stripped because the presid...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
... with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what busin...
Five Golf Destinations in Spain
in Wandalust, on May 19, 2009
...esort - Located in Mijas Costa, 12 miles East of Marbella, 24 miles SW of Malaga, this is the biggest golf complex in Spain, La Cala is also a spa. The resort has three superb 18-hole championship go...
Franchises: WYNTK
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 19, 2009
We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract.
One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...
Transformers 2 剧情细节
in Wangtam, on May 16, 2009
...0 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade
• 腾讯Web加速器 v1.0 Beta02
• Apple Is Indeed Talking About Opening iPhone Background Tasks
• FUHU - fuhu.com
• Online project management software, team c...
HDMI hits spec 4. New features abound
in The Digital TV Weblog, on May 15, 2009
...ifferent features, such as an extended colourset. Now we've reached spec4 and we've got the biggest change yet; internet connectivity. The cable now contains a dedicated ethernet channel allow...
Spain's Top Five Golf Destinations
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 15, 2009
...esort - Located in Mijas Costa, 12 miles East of Marbella, 24 miles SW of Malaga, this is the biggest golf complex in Spain, La Cala is also a spa. The resort has three superb 18-hole championship go...
Times' reporter's story a reminder: It's easy to fall into foreclosure nightmare
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 15, 2009
...gage loan? Are you one of those very fortunate few who actually do have an 8- to 12-month emergency fund built up?
I know I don't. And if I lost my main job? I'd hate to think about how hard ...
Antica Murrina Italian Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 15, 2009
...it a perfect accessory for any occasion. A heart-shaped watch face has Japanese movement.
$137
The biggest step for them was taken in 1988 when they added to their business one of Venice's oldest...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...t global warming will have an impact around the world. The report says: "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Effects of climate change on health will affect mo...
Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009
...onal Association of Realtors says that housing prices dropped in 134 of 152 metropolitan areas. The biggest declines came in Cape Coral and Ft. Myers, Fla. San Francisco and San Jose followed.
So if ...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Along with an award for Hedge Fund Administrator of the year for their alternative investment services (AIS), the Bank of New York Mellon received 6 other awards at the International Custody &...
