This post supposed to be a cogent analysis of the hunger problems facing North Korea, and how most famines are man-made. A Nobel prize in Economics have been awarded on this topic, to Indian economist Amartya Sen.
But instead it has degenerated into trying to find pictures of giant bunnies on the big bad web.
It all [...]
This could be a huge story: an online software provider decides to buy 40,000 licenses. This is the kind of story that propels a small company towards an IPO.
Webguild.com, a website with 73,000 unique visitors per month, put up an article that dumps on Google, saying that GE picked a competitor’s product.
But there are several [...]
Global Warming has received massive publicity in recent times. While there is considerable debate on the causes of the warming, or even if it is real, there is a lot of ‘something needs to be done’ going around. The ‘Kyoto Protocol’, which is a very complex negotiation that tries to deal with this. Al Gore [...]
Medical care is one of America’s biggest businesses, but it is different in several respects: there is little or no price comparison or price shopping done. There is very little objective review of providers, like yelp.com or zagat.com. The providers sometimes use their industry associations such as State Medical Boards to legally prevent any release [...]
GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner, who has destroyed more shareholder equity than most CEO’s in modern history(73 billion lost since end of 2004), has now decided to try and stick the American taxpayer with the bill.
I see no reason to bail out GM. If we give GM 25 billion or 50 billion or whatever it wants, [...]
Many dermatologists have made small fortunes by deploying little machines from Cutera that remove body hair. These doctors charge up to $3,000 for a procedure that costs less than a tenth of that amount.
The holy grail is to have a home based device that will let you zap off your own hair. There is [...]
