Bears vs. bulls as anniversary looms
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 8, 2010
A year after the financial crisis hit its nadir and the market plunged to a 12-year low, stocks have recovered but investors remain wary. Source ...
Cablevision, ABC settle fee feud – Oscars back on for New Yorkers
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 8, 2010
Cablevision customers in the New York area were able to start watching the Oscars about 15 minutes into the start of the program Sunday, when ABC restored its local affiliate's signal after pulling it...
The iPad Is Coming! (Minus a Few iPhone Apps).
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 7, 2010
So Apple (AAPL) is making the iPad available on April 3 (shrewd marketing move, bypassing April 1), and pre-orders will begin on March 12. But as seems to be the rule these days, the announcement...
Jobs: Short-term hope, long-term despair
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 7, 2010
Friday's jobs report showed some glimmers of a recovery but if you're among the 8.8 million Americans still unemployed after nearly four months, you may have been left scratching your head. S...
What We Learned About Mark Zuckerberg This Week
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 6, 2010
With no one particular breaking news peg, a lot of ink was spilled about Mark Zuckerberg this week. The Wall Street Journal wrote a feature about him alongside a picture of his smiling mug in the A-se...
App-etizers, Mar. 5: MOG App To Stream Songs to Phones
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 6, 2010
Spotify rival MOG is preparing a mobile app to stream its 6-million song catalog to phones. (DigitalBeat) Nokia's Ovi app store is experimenting with iTunes-like movie downloads. (Electricpig) DARPA p...
Salmonella Scare Exposes the Dangers of Industrial Food
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 6, 2010
The contamination of perhaps thousands of food products with salmonella should be a wake-up call to apologists for the industrialized food system. It's not possible to bring the system down and get ev...
No friends of Blackstone
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 6, 2010
Once again The Blackstone Group is at the center of a headline-grabbing controversy. Source ...
A plan to save commercial real estate
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 6, 2010
Economists have long been predicting commercial real estate could be the next day of reckoning for the financial markets, with a wave of defaults looming as billions of dollars in troubled loans come ...
CBO: $10 trillion jump in debt under Obama budget
Category: Money, News | Listed: March 5, 2010
If President Obama's 2011 budget were put into effect as proposed, the U.S. federal government would add an estimated $9.8 trillion to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, according to a p...

