Check out this article from ABC Australia. It reads like a Press Release from the Saudis. From ABC Austalia: The Islamic banking industry is now worth almost an estimated US$1 trillion and is widely considered to be one of the fastest growing sectors in the world of finance.  Even in the midst of a...

In case you were wondering whether or not the powers that be at Citi are freaking the fuck out, rest assured: they are! We've just been informed that 390 Greenwich has removed the Citi stock ticker from the screens scattered throughout the lobby and cafeteria. Apparently the free-fall from 50 to 6 w...

Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project.  This is unfortunate for multiple reasons: 1) Google was the first real major player to have a virtual world platform launch, albeit social avatar-chat centric, which in many ways validated the market space t...

Consternation ultime : Apple met du HDCP dans ses nouveaux MacBooks ! En gros, certains contenus numériques achetés sur iTunes Store ne peuvent pas être lus par un MacBook récent s'il est branché sur un moniteur/projecteur non HDCP. On pourra se passer d'acheter chez Apple ce genre de...

This story is an installment of The Adventures of Downtown Oliver Brown. There is a part of me that misses those days in the hills above Sunset… This is as far as my script about an author who moves Downtown to escape the pretentious idiots in Hollywood had progressed. See, I write at Starbucks an...

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I tend to not blog much here recently about the larger technology industry but the recent developments at Yahoo! compel me to write. YHOO gave its investors a tremendous return (and if you bought YHOO on the day of the IPO you're still looking at a nearly 10X return, in fact if you bought $1000 wort...

We like to report good news, not just because it makes us all feel good, but because when a company is doing something positive during a downturn, it indicates something pretty interesting about that company. That is why Jobwire reports on new hires when all the other news is about layoffs. In that ...

Journée régionale de la transmission 17 novembre 2008 -Compte rendu de la conférence plénière sur le thème : Â«La croissance externe, un outil pour mieux vendre mon entreprise ?» Animateur: Yannick Hoche, Responsable de la Reprise-Transmission d’entreprise à l’ APCE (Ag...

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