Istithmar revises Offer for Barneys New York

(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) Dubai (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Istithmar PJSC, the leading private equity and alternative investment house headquartered in Dubai, announced today that it has revised its offer to acquire Barneys New York, the...

Anti-Sweatshop Crusader Rini Chakraborty

"How can garment workers at the dawn of the 21st century still face 19th-century sweatshop conditions? It's disturbing questions like this that drive Rini Chakraborty, 31, Executive Director of California-based Sweatshop Watch, to seek justice for exploited workers in the...

From its grey-flannel grave, IBM discovers Second Life, Web 2.0, and virtuosity

This is an extremely interesting article - really, a manifesto calling for an "Open Source Second Life".  Its author, Glynn Moody, includes the musings of I rving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technology strategy and innovation at IBM."We see this people-centric...

Retail sales slow ahead of holiday shopping

"NEW YORK --US retailers' sales rose the least in four months as consumers held off on spending ahead of the holiday season. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. forecast the worst sales in more than 10 years. October sales at 57 chains surveyed by the International Council of Shopping...

Best deals on cockroaches and other apparel

Nowadays, almost everything is for sale on internet. Even cockroaches!!!

Smart Stuff. Stain eraser.

" We will admit right from the start that we did not believe in this product. Not one bit. How could stains be erased (A)? But the thing was pretty cheap, and our sand colored shorts just got some stains in the butt (B), so we might as well give it a try. So we got the...