Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is not going to be able to buy its way out of trouble. The company and Michael Dell recently settled government charges which have damaged the founder’s credibility as a public…
Behind every American who does not have a job there are apparently many who are concerned about whether they will keep their own. Depending on whether joblessness is 9.6% or the 17% which includes…
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There is, apparently, a market for 3-D pornography. This is the gamble that a firm in Hong Kong is taking as it produced new films like “3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy” according to…
The US, EU, UK, and Japan were supposed to emerge from a great recession this year. The experience of past recessions would indicate that GDP should pick up to 3% or 4% and remain…
It is finally official. China passed Japan in GDP in the second quarter and is likely to lengthen its lead as Japan’s growth is stalled at under 1% and China’s GDP is expanding at…
Reuters: Japan’s Q2 CGP was only .1% or a rate of .4% for the year. Reuters: Worries about growth have moved from Europe to the US. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) may sell…
When will China run low on energy sources? At the rate that its consumption is growing, the answer may be soon. China’s electric power consumption in July reached 389.6 billion kilowatt-hours, up 13.94 percent…
A web security group challenged Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on the security of encryption software it issued in 2005. The encryption is meant to keep financial data from being hacked.The Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) wrote,…
These days, chief information officers at Fortune 500 companies are spending a lot of their time saying “no.” The good ones are masters at it. They have to turn down pleas from department heads…
The fiscal toll unemployment is taking on the federal government is laid bare in the recent July Budget Report. Unemployment expenses rose almost 41 percent as of July during the government’s fiscal year to…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
There have been for some time a collection of companies that gathers patents and then uses them to sue large technology firms. The issues are often unclear enough and cost of litigation high enough…
Americans’ despair about the economy shows up so often in research studies that the results have become redundant. But, the malaise actually deepens with each new piece of data. The troubles that US citizens…
The book bans of fifty years ago which included “Catcher In The Rye” are distant memories. But censorship is not over. The Wall Street Journal has been banned in Singapore within the last five…
Nintendo just announced that sales of its Wii game console had reached 30 million units in the US, and had reached that level faster than any other console in history. The celebration was short-lived.…
Reuters: The GM CEO will leave as the company has its IPO. ‘Reuters: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over Android. Reuters: Germany raised its forecast for the second half Reuters: Hewlett-Packard’s…
Updated throughout the day. GM will raise $16 billion through its IPO (Bloomberg) American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is talking to large investors about an AIA IPO (Reuters) Rio Tinto may buy a stake…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…