IBD-Investors Business Daily is the chamber of commerce of business daily newspapers. It caters to small and upcoming businesses – the Russell 2000 companies. This is not a bad marketplace to be in today as the need to change and grow new companies becomes the norm in the business world. Also the IBD offers some […]
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Maybe its the dire economic and political news, but this years April Fool jokes and spoofs on the Web appear to be vintage quality. And that is a high Testament to Foolishness because despite the Web’s seeming pervasiveness , only one Web-originated April Fools prank has cracked the the top 30 in the list of
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Who did the following series of stories? Huffington Post or LATimes? Or maybe the BBC or CBC? Could it be the Guardian or maybe the TheTelegraph? No – these are the headline stories from Aljazeera websiteon Saturday May 26, 2011. . Yes there is a preponderance of news stories from the MidEast but that is
If there was any doubt before, Japan’s earthquake and tsunami removed any lingering ones and revealed the NYTimes as the world leading masters of Web interactive graphics and coverage.Our sister blog, Bookraft, has already pointed out some of the leading technologies used by the NYTimes for last year’s Winter Olympios. But covering the Japnese Earthquake
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Hillary Clinton is right – for real news about the Middle East, Al Jazeera is the goto website. After trying BBC, CNN, Fox News, NYTimes, and Time ye Editor finally tried Al Jazeera and found page after page of news of what is happening in the Mideast from Morocco to Pakistan. And based on some
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The Legatum Institute has a website devoted to measuring the World’s Prosperity and showing the comparison among all the World’s countries. Being a strong believer in unbiased measures as a way to steer a group or country to enlightened betterment, ye Editor was immediately attracted to the Prosperity.com website. To move out of the OECD
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Stock market gurus at The Street have a careful analysis of why the iPad 2 missed some key concerns of the IT and Business community and thus an opportunity for Apple to make big inroads into the office. Keep in mind The Street still sees the consumer side of iPad 2 as HUGE. Steve Jobs
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Ye Editor has been patiently waiting for one of the larger news media like the NYTimes, Washington Post or the Milwaukee Sentinel to describe what issues Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker campaigned on – this might shed light on the current controversy in the state capital over Walker induced budget short fall and efforts to remove
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Update: The article below predicted that following IBM’s Watson’s triump at Jeopardy there would more proposals for computers software playing a more active role in business and organizations. Here are 3 recent articles on that continuing trend: NYTimes – armies of expensive lawyers to be replaced by cheaper AI software. Business Week – Virtual AI
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To be a leader in the Republican party is a think-less and thankless task. As Paul Krugman has pointed out many the times, Republicans have to reject simple math and logic in justifying their catastrophic fiscal policies. This is GOP party leadership that must carefully evade exposure of its near treasonous “Starve the Beast” economic
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