| Microsoft buys ciao.com to boost e-shopping search 13 hours ago by Gogo Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison website ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe. Microsoft, whose $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo earlier this year failed after a long battle, said on Fri ... Finance topics - onlinebusinesssurvey.com |
| Passengers stranded after Zoom planes grounded 15 hours ago by Fred Hundreds of Zoom Airlines passengers were stranded Thursday in Canada and the UK after the cash-strapped Canadian airline suddenly canceled all of its flights after creditors took action to get money owed them. Zoom said the economic downturn and the unprecedented rise in the price of aviation fuel ... FFF News blog - myfinnotes.com |
| U.S. Economy: Consumer Spending Slows, Inflation Accelerates 15 hours ago by Wolf Spending by U.S. consumers slowed in July as the impact of the tax rebates faded and a pickup in inflation eroded Americans' buying power. Purchases rose 0.2 percent, one-third the pace in June, the Commerce Department said today in Washington, while prices surged the most in 17 years. The Reuters/U ... Wolf's Finance World - finreviewer.com |
| Boomers won’t bust us - Health care will 19 hours ago by Wolf Entitlement has become a bit of a swear word. In Washington, D.C., it’s technically a nonpejorative term for government programs like Social Security and Medicare that aren’t subject to the usual budget process. But what many pundits and pols who talk about entitlements really mean is: Look at all t ... Wolf's Finance World - finreviewer.com |
| Nintendo lifts profit, shares soar 21 hours ago by Economic Nintendo Co (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) boosted its annual profit outlook by 23 percent on white-hot demand for its Wii video game console and DS portable player, beating market expectations and sending its shares more than 8 percent higher. As consumers in the United States and ... Finance and Economic - variousnotes.com |
| State probes Goldman, Fidelity deal 22 hours ago by Town The New York attorney general’s office said Wednesday it is investigating whether Fidelity Investments was given incentives by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to sell auction-rate securities to investors. Investigators are examining if Fidelity pitched auction-rate securities that were underwritten by Gold ... Hot finance topics - economicsurveys.com |
| Japan Plans to Spend 2 Trillion Yen on Stimulus Plan 1 day ago by Guru Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, facing elections within a year, plans to spend about 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) to revive the world's second-largest economy. Included will be 400 billion yen earmarked for a small and midsize company credit-guarantee program that would back about 9 trillion y ... Finance counsels - goodcounsels.com ·  1 reference |
| Political Correctness: Indian vs. Native America 1 day ago by Jessica Mondillo 28 August 2008 Political correctness is always an issue and the question is where the line of too much is. Some people think that has been crossed a long time ago. Now my question involves the word “INDIAN.” I never realized that the word “Indian” has finally crossed deep into the realm of being pol ... Jessica Mondillo's Blog - mondillo.wordpress.com · 1 reference |
