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Madoff's tough spell

Much has been said about Bernard Madoff's 150 year prison sentence. The Los Angeles Times points out the obvious : his sentence is a lot shorter than what was handed out to the likes of Denis Kozlowski (8 to 25 years), Bernie Ebbers (25 years) and Jeff Skilling 24 years and 4 months). Mado...

Sotomayor and the Supreme Counrt

If you've been following the confirmation process of Judge Sonia Sotomayor you're probably aware of the ruling today in which the Court overturned a ruling in which Sotomayor was involved. The Right has been quick to try and make hay from the story. Some commentary: Grasping at Straws: So...

Recession and marriage

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...

Who would buy a newspaper?

Last month, I did a blog entry on Warren Buffett warning that newspapers had no future and that they would go the way of the horse and buggy. In that context, it's fascinating to read the reports of how the New York Times is now selling the Boston Globe after cutting journalists' pa...

An End to Tax Havens?

© marcn A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include: The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...

Testing stress tests

And so The Wall Street Journal reports that 10 of the 19 banks undergoing stress tests will have to boost their capital and that list might include Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citigroup. The fundamental question is not just whether those banks are solvent. It's whether the stress test...

TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop

• TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop • Dayton Real Estate - Homes for Sale in Dayton OH • WishMirror • Chartle.net - interactive charts online! • Food.com • What The Trend: Finally, A Way To Make Sense Of Twitter Trends • Silicon Valley crown up for grabs • 5 Unique Websi...

Thailand May as Well Be Closed...

If you've been thinking of going to Thailand on vacation any time soon, you should probably plan on the Philippines or Malaysia instead. I could take a few minutes and try to unravel the politics. But, well, mai pen rai . The truth is simple. Thailand had protests and political unrest a while ...

Obama Relaxes Cuba Travel Restrictions

Americans with relatives in Cuba will now be able to travel more freely to visit those relative without violating U.S. law, the Obama Administration announced today. Several news sources ( Associated Press , NY Times , H Post ) are covering the development. The Associated Press sums up the change...

More to Love, Coming to Fox

I really don't watch much reality TV. Survivor; but what's real about getting thrown off a boat in the Caroline Islands (or wherever it was)? And I don't think I've ever watched a dating show on TV for more than as long as it took to figure out what else was on. With that in...

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 exists now in draft form in the U.S. House. The WWF is happy; groups like Shop Floor are unhappy. I had to laugh at one of Shop Floor's points. They agreed that the new law would create a lot of jobs, but said that so did Hurricane Katri...

G20 and FASB: the banks win again

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown might proclaim the G20 summit as the beginning of a "new world order" but the reality is the financial crisis will be around for some time yet. Don't get too worked up about markets' celebrating the trillion dollar G20 deal. It's a suck...

AIG witch hunts: the new McCarthyism

Some of the most disturbing reports now coming out of the US tell us that AIG employees are now living in fear. Now we're told employees have been told to avoid sporting the company logo and to travel in pairs at night. Bomb sniffer dogs and body guards are in demand. As the Hartford Cou...

The politics of AIG

The political fallout from the AIG bailout will be massive. With $165 million in US taxpayers' money going to pay executive bonuses, the Obama administration is bailing itself for a backlash. It looks impotent and ineffective as Bernanke tells 60 Minutes he slammed the phone down a few tim...

Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?

© kimberlyfaye In a recent Huffington Post article , Fritz Hollings, former senator from South Carolina. The article calls for broad, sweeping changes in tax and trade policies, changes that would, no doubt, make many of the readers of this site uncomfortable. However, he also makes a very in...

Chris Brown, Rihanna, and the Whole Lesson

Mona Gable over at the H Post had a good perspective today on "the Rihanna/Chris Brown thing." Mona Gables wants to know if her teenaged daughter "gets" the whole thing. "(A)ccording to People and other sources, the two not only made up barely three weeks after Brown...

Validas: Fight back against your cell phone bill!

• Validas: Fight back against your cell phone bill! • Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search • Ohpan • VALU VALU - Buy or Sell Video Games at the perfect, automated price • Snow Leopard goes 64-Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo? • Googlers Rooting f...

TIME 评出 2009 年最佳的 25 个 Blog 和 5 个被高估的 Blog

TIME 近日评出 2009 年最佳的 25 个 Blog 和 5 个被高估的 Blog，以下是 2009 年最佳的 25 个 Blog 详细列表： ✔ Talking Points Memo ✔ The Huffington Post ✔ Lifehacker ✔ Metafilter ✔ The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan ✔ The Freakonomics blog ✔ BoingBoing ✔ Got2BeGreen ✔ Zen Habits ✔ The Conscience of a Liberal: P...

Japan's Economy Unravels

The H Post is among a huge number of sources covering the sharp downturn of the Japanese economy. If there was any doubt that this is a global recession, the economic news on Japan put an end to that this week. Tomoko A. Hosaka put it this way: Japan's economy contracted at the fastest pace...

Financial meltdown claims its first casualty

One down, how many more to go? With his country's economy melting, its three biggest banks nationalised and then placed in receivership and public anger rising, Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde has resigned . Iceland is likely to be hit with a bill that could run to billions of do...

Facebook and the Meaning of Friend

Friend : the word already covered a pretty broad semantic piece of ground. Then came Facebook , and it made the term even more nebulous. I have 38 friends on Facebook - including my two daughters, a couple of other relatives, former co-workers from past jobs, some high school friends I haven'...

Write This Down: While in Thailand, Don't Insult the King...

A number of news sources ( Channel News Asia , The Chronicle of Higher Ed , The Huffington Post ) are reporting on a case in Thailand in which an Australian citizen has been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting the royal family. From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A Thai court tod...

Huffington Post 收购 236.com

著名政治类 Blog 网站 Huffington Post 日前利用上个月获得的 2500 万美元融资收购了娱乐新闻网站 236.com 。 236.com 创建于 2007 年 11 月，是 Huffington Post 和 IAC 公司建立的合资公司的一部分。交易完成后， 236.com 将成为 Huffington Post 旗下的一个垂直频道。

What's ahead for US financial institutions?

With President-elect Barack Obama vowing to reshape the United States financial regulatory system, something that should have been done some time ago, it is worth looking to see what lies ahead for the US financial services sectors, particularly mortgage brokers, private equity firms and hedge...

UN Body Rules on Rwanda Genocide

The Agence France Press is among a number of news sources reporting on the conviction of Rwanda's ex-army colonel Theoneste Bagosora on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) also acquitted Bagosora, an ethnic Hutu, on ...

Huffington Post 又获收 1500 万美元投资

融资方： The Huffington Post 投资方：尚未公开 涉及金额：1500 万美元（第三轮）

Automakers heading nowhere

It must have been so humiliating but it had to happen with the automakers going cap in hand to Washington for a $25 billion bailout. And as the New York Times reports, things are not looking good with politicians suggesting it could just be like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. This is a...

Second Life Affair Leads to Divorce in Real Life

It's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish virtual world events from real life. And as evidence of that, the big news this week is a divorce in the UK that is currently in the works. SkyNews described it this way: Amy Taylor, 28, cited unreasonable behaviour in the court papers, desc...

Obama on China

"The basic framework of U.S. policy under an Obama administration will not fundamentally change," said Cui Liru, president of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, in Beijing today (according to Huffington Post writer Michael Standaert . There's been a lot sai...

Forecasts of the economic disaster

With forecasts that the world is headed for its worst recession in 25 years, if it's lucky, the Huffington Post has run a timely piece on the ones who predicted the economic firestorm. They include New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini ("A 1987 style stock market ...

Markets and the destruction of wealth

Fear and panic have gripped the world's markets. On Friday, Wall Street continued its plunge , with losses for the year reaching an amazing $8.3 trillion. But if you look at the data closely, you will see we are now seeing a decade of wealth destruction. The S&P500 shows 11 years of no...

China Cuts Interest Rate

After five years of tight monetary policy, China 's central bank announced a cut in a key interest rate Monday. According to an AP report , the bank said it was lowering the rate on one-year yuan-denominated loans by 0.27 percent to 7.20 percent effective Tuesday. China has had relatively ...

Fannie and Freddie fallout

So The Dow Jones gained nearly 300 points on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Don't expect the party to last. Home loans are being foreclosed more than ever, growing at their fastest pace in three decades . Does anyone really think that saving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wil...

Merrill Lynch's money mismatch

It has not been a great year for Merrill Lynch with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo moving to sue the firm for allegedly misleading investors over auction rate securities. Things are so desperate that Merrill Lynch is now relying on sovereign wealth funds to bail it out of the f...

The Price of Protest? China Sentences two Old Ladies to Hard Labor

I'll start by admitting that this has nothing to do with venture capital in China - excepted in the broadest possible sense of being about life in China.... A number of sources including the Huffington Post are reporting on 79-year-old Wu Dianyuan and her 77-year-old neighbor, Wang Xiuyin...

First US-Built Chinese Vehicle Now On-Sale

China is now making automobiles in the U.S. - in Oklahoma, to be precise. An article in the Huffington Post earlier this month pointed out that Chongqing ChangAn Automobile Co., Ltd. has begun production of The Tiger Champ at an assembly line in Oklahoma. Production began on July 31st. This fir...

Alert! We Have a New BEST Party School: The University of Florida

Move over WVU . With the publication of the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings we have a new "best party school" - the University of Florida. The Huffington Post published a list of the Review's top 20 party schools earlier this week. West Virginia dropped fro...

Congress, College, and Your Credit Cards

It's always bothered me just a little when I get a credit card offer that seems to have something to do with the fact that I'm a student. I don't know the bank sending me the offer. Why do they know so much about me? Of course, in today's information age i suppose that shouldn&...

Angelina and Brad's Twins' Photos for $15M!

© Beautiful Freaks By now, you probably already all know that the Bradgelina twins have arrived. Angelina Jolie gave birth by caesarian section to Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline at the Fondation Lenval, a clinic located in Nice, France. Nah, those aren't Angelina and brad 's twi...

Beijing Olympics: Too Black (or Mongolian) to Drink?

I know this isn't really VC-related but... Talk about a faux paux (if there's any truth to it): the Huffington Post reported Saturday on a piece in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Seems police in Beijing may have "issued a secret ban on blacks, Mongolians and other ...

Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet

The Huffington Report has become one of the supernovas of the blogosphere and they nailed it with this piece. They've captured both the Optimism and the pessimism that surrounds the Internet in China. They get the fact that what matters outside of China is different than what matter...

好莱坞八卦源头: 超过 50 个有关名人的娱乐 Blog

【演员】 • Alec Baldwin • Valerie Bertinelli • Zach Braff • Jackie Chan • Jenna Fischer • Mariska Hargitay • Allison Mack • Alyssa Milano • David Nykl • William Shatner • Jodie Sweetin 【运动员】 • Gilbert Arenas • David Beckham • Curtis Granderson • Anna Kournikova • Pat...

Do's and Don'ts to Online Dating

Online dating has fast become the most popular way singles meet today. But for every success story, there seem to be an equal amount of people that claim to have had bad luck. Or worse: a horrible time with online dating. Why do some people succeed and some fail? You might think the best lo...

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"Good" economic news: glass empty or half-full?

What to make of the good economic news? Is the lower unemployment rate cause for celebration? And what of the improving productivity figures and shrinking trade deficit? Don't pop the champagne corks, warns Associated Press economics correspondent Jeannine Aversa . The numbers might...

Britney Spears Has Another Motoring Mishap

...rs' latest auto accident and while there check out the links to stories about Source:www.www.huffingtonpost.com.com ...

More Outdoor News Update: Outward Bound

Here's the best of some really old, yet, important, outdoor news I missed. Outward Bound Best Place to Work One of New Zealand's oldest adventure centres, Outward Bound, is the recipient of this years Unlimited Magazine's best place to work award. Competing against 200 other New Z...

Die 25 wertvollsten Weblogs

...r, ValleyWag, Gizmodo, Wonkette und einigen anderen Blogs) 2. MacRumors: 85 Millionen $ 3. HuffingtonPost: 70 Millionen $ 4. PerezHilton: 48 Millionen $ 5. TechCrunch: 36 Millionen $ 6. ArsTechnica: 1...

Is it a Recession?

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. truman Well it may soon be official. Today the Commerce Department confirmed Gross Domestic Product grew at only 0.6% for the last quarter of 2007. In April, the report for the...

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- 红色版Zune2 80GB 也可以进行个性化定制了 - Smelling Trouble Behind AOL's $850 Million Bebo Deal - 福布斯：再见，阿里巴巴？ - 雅虎三高管奔走华尔街挨门证明微软出价过低 - New York Assemblyman Pushes for Limits to Web Ad Targeting - adidas miCoach: Personal Training from Adidas - Volomedia.com - Advertising, Metrics and Reporti...

Wesley Snipes: a little guilty of tax dodging

The big news at the end of the week was that action man Wesley Snipes has been cleared of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return. From one perspective, it's a huge victory for Snipes as he has just r...

Merrill Lynch's bonus pain

At the end of last year, I did a blog entry looking at how investment bankers were still raking in enormous bonuses, despite the Subprime Meltdown . Indeed, according to research at Breaking Views , bonuses at the biggest investment banks rose to a despite the subprime losses. The basic...

Tips for surviving the recession

Last week, Pimco managing director Bill Gross was saying the US had already entered a recession . "You know, if I had to be bold, and I can do that, a la Dow 5,000, if I had to be bold, I'd say we began a recession in December." The biggest problem facing the US, he says, ...

Celebrity Christmas

It's Christmas, and I want to wish all of you, whether you observe the day or not, a great Christmas day. Celebrities celebrate Christmas too so I thought I'd scare up some celebrity Christmas related websites, Here are some celebrity Christmas quotes . This site features celebri...

Iraq's accounting black hole

Several weeks ago, I did a blog entry highlighting how Iraq was an accounting black hole that's vulnerable to fraud and corruption. Now we have revelations from CBS that $1 billion of military equipment has gone missing in Iraq and disclosures that United States commanders used sloppy ...

Huffington Post 再度获收 500 万美元投资

这是一个与 Blogosphere 有关的大新闻了，全美最大、Technorati 排名第五、北美最具影响力的政治类 Blog 网站 The Huffington Post 日前再度获收一笔投资，投资者与第一轮一样，有 Softbank Capital、Greycroft Partners 以及 Pilot Group 的 CEO 兼联合创始人 Ken Lerer，金额高达 500 万美元。两轮融资之后，Huffington Post 已经获收的投资金总额达 1000 万美元了，这对于一个 Blog 来说，至今是最高纪录。

Damaging the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?

With the Ways and Means holding Congressional hearings on how to simplify America's tax code, several members of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) have testified recently before Congress. The topic: a proposal to tax carried interest as ordinary personal income instead of capital...

Lurid Details Of Lindsay Lohan's Family

Source:www.celebrityway.com Is there a more dysfunctional family in America than the Lohan clan? Lindsay, seen here during much, much better days, has reentered rehab at a very exclusive place that costs about $30K per month, which I guess for Lohan is a drop in the bucket. Source:www.ne...

How Do You Get a Lovelife if You Work from Home?

I've come across this funny and yet partly-true article about someone who work at home missing office romance - Work at Home: The Ugly Truth by Andy Borowitz, a comedian and NYTimes writer. Gone are the liquor-fueled holiday parties and the team-building retreats that have traditionally s...

PC World 编辑们最喜欢的 100 个 Blog

PC World 的编辑们日前评出了 最喜欢的 100 个 Blog ，基本上都是英文 Blog，并不包含其他语种。详细推荐表如下： 【科技】 1.Slashdot ( slashdot.org ) 2.Engadget ( www.engadget.com ) 3.Gizmodo ( www.gizmodo.com ) 4.TechCrunch ( www.techcrunch.com ) 5.Ars Journals ( arstechnica.com/journals.ars ) 6.ReadWriteWeb ( www.readwriteweb.com ) 7.Scobleiz...

Bush hurts Enron's investors

In an extraordinary decision , the President has delivered a gift to Wall Street fat cats by refusing to back investors in a case that will affect the victims who had been defrauded by parties aiding and abetting Enron. The decision goes against the recommendations of the Securities and Exchang...

Schöne neue Welt der Zeitung - die Huffington Post

Die US-Journalistin Arianna Huffington hat die Zeitung ins Internet gebracht: Ihre Sammlung von Weblogs ist eine der am häufigsten geklickten im weltweiten Netz. Der Handelsblatt-Autor Jens Eckhardt hat sie besucht und aufgeschrieben, was sie denkt. Ein lesenswerter Text aus der neuen Welt...

The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake

Produced by actress and talk-show host Ricki Lake, The Business of Being Born explores America's child birthing industry. The film also features couples who have decided to give birth on their own terms and a New York midwife who combines ancient tradition and modern tools in her pract...

Warming deniers ignored by the market

The debate about global warming seems to have moved on but the climate change contrarians are still getting some traction. Whether it's in Australia, with the Lavoisier Society , or Channel Four in the UK Screening a documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle or people like Texas...

Google占领美国51%的视频市场　Viacom要求YouTube删除10万个视频

　　Google的搜索占领了美国市场过半份额，我相信很多人早已知道。但 Compete 今天发布的最新美国视频市场统计却也显示，原来Google在吞下YouTube后，已经占领了美国51%的视频市场份额。 　　由上面的结果来看，YouTube依然是不可动摇的视频王者，占了超过四成市场。而Google Video的份额也有了不小的提升，达到了10%。热门的社交网站MySpace凭借着其超强的人气，占有率达19%。这些结果表明了Google、YouTube和MySpace三个巨头的总市场份额已经占了70%，而其余7家较主流的视频网站只能抢夺余下的30%市场。 　　 注：本文已于12:25...

This Blog is Racialicious

I've said I won't be talking about racism this year, and I won't. There are smart people out there, writing about race issues, doing an excellent job (much better than I could ever do) with great talent and intelligence. Racialicious ( formerly known as Mixed Media Watch ...

Profiteers and the Iraq debacle

Saddam Hussein was handed over to a sectarian lynch mob and made to play the lead role in a vile snuff movie. Thousands of Iraqis and Americans are dead and many more are maimed. Billions of dollars have been pouring into a black hole in the failed attempts at Iraqi reconstruction and the...

A salute to Worldchanging

Leif Utne gives kudos to WorldChanging at the Huffington Post : With a small, global team, Worldchanging began showcasing daily content about new ideas, innovations and inventions that were changing the world for the better. The premise of Worldchanging became: A better world is not ...

Another Top 10

It's a new day, a new dawn, a new year. But there are still more 2006 top ten lists trickling in. This from Grist and the Huffington Post of the top ten 'green' stories of 2006. 10. The Stern report 9. Oregon regulatory takings initiative. 8. The rise of carbon neutrality. 7. ...

Condoms, AIDS, Uganda ...

More on the condoms, AIDS debate, this time from the ground in Uganda at Jackfruity : A full thirty-three percent of the money USAID spends on HIV prevention goes towards abstinence. In 2004, the number of condoms provided by USAID's PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Reli...