Ford Motor Company today announced that they are going to be transforming their vehicle lineup due to the largest reported loss for the company in its 105 year history.Their stock also fell about 16% - which is a LOT...
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Where are the Conservative Journalists? Over at the Politico, Jonathan Martin writes, "GOP losing the new-media war." The article is generating some thoughtful discussion from conservative tech folks inside the...
The BlogHer conference is underway in San Francisco (July 18-20), and of course an event like this is huge for companies who want to woo tastemakers and others who, by definition of attending this conference, tell...
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"Record gas and higher food prices drove inflation to the biggest annual jump since 1991 and fanned fears about growing pressures on consumers.The Labor Department reading on Wednesday is another sign, along with mounting job losses and declining home prices, of the economic...
UPDATE: The Great FireWall of China website is no longer offering a test, since the test is no longer reliable.There is another site you can try to see if your site is blocked: Website TestGot a question below about what to do about it, from a webhost provider, the only idea...
As NowPublic speculated last week, Twitter has been getting set to purchase Summize, a search tool built on the Twitter API. Today, it was announced that the acquisition has been made official -- and Twitter...
Homework for US Govt to find a solution..."The dollar sank to a new all-time low against the euro Tuesday as concerns about the health of the U.S. banking sector and economy deepened.The 15-nation euro rose as high...
"The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev.Anheuser Busch Cos (BUD, Fortune 500). said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from Inbev, heading off what had promised to be a long and acrimonious fight...
..It's been a roller coaster at the office lately with all of this buyout talk by Microsoft, but I am happy to have read this story. I'm not quite ready for a hostile takeover and certainly not ready to work for the...
"An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow's hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute...
UPDATED The Christian Science Monitor, has posted video of the event. Here's the link. When it comes to presidential politics, Barack Obama has all the buzz on the Internet. He has raised record amounts of money online. He hired a Facebook co-founder to help leverage...
" Abu Dhabi's green ambitions don't end with the city. It has persuaded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a graduate school and research institute...
" Update: I apologize for this document and withdraw it. The research needed for this post was not done properly and the resulting material should not have been posted. The media and internet sources that provided...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly makes you wonder, you come home from work and find another family in the process of moving into your home. Unrealistic? Yes! Possible? Most...
This is an informative blog by John Rajeski, writing about the ins and outs of living and working in Southeast Asia (but he uses South Korea as a case study here). His bottomline is that working in any new, alien culture boils down to how one uses the experience...