The NYTimes has an ith-tho-thad story about student loan debt(see this one about an auto dealership from CNN). It goes on in detail about how Citibank and NYU loaned a student close to $100,000 for her college education. The article claims that the university should have done something, anything, to prevent her from being buried [...]
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Articles comparing cellphone technology in the US versus Japan / Korea / China usually center on how backward America is. And it is true, we in the USA do not have the advances they have in those countries. This article says the same thing about TV over mobile but it completely misses the point. (Archived [...]
America is crying out for high-tech investment. Please, please, please build a factory, a design center, an assembly line, ANYTHING, in America. We need jobs. Mr. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, goes ahead and does exactly that, invests half a billion dollars. So what thanks does he gets? An ugly, ugly photograph in the [...]
I will not turn this note into a scathing attack on the NYTimes, but it sure has fallen from grace in my eyes. They hocked their HQ, and are trying to survive in these crazy times. Just recently their stock traded at less than the price of one copy of the Sunday times. I think [...]
The NYTimes is known for being the newspaper of record. But they are hurting and trying to make the transition into the digital age. Jason Calcanis, a man who made a lot of money on the Internet AFTER the 2001 bust, said newspapers are dead. So does Henry Blodget, who was a big Internet muckety-muck, [...]
