Enterprise Mobility: 10 More Smartphones That Will Fade Away Before 2011
Microsoft announced earlier this week that it has discontinued its Kin smartphones after just six weeks of availability. The devices, which focused heavily on social-networking activities, failed to live up to the hype Microsoft built for the Kin One...
Leadership Slideshow:The Real Value In Making Work Meaningful
"Meaning making" is as valued as "money making" for your work teams today, according to University of Michigan business professor Dave Ulrich, who is also co-founder of business consultance The RBL Group.
Shadow Banking Is Still Bigger Than Traditional Banking
In recent decades, a parallel universe sprung up in American finance — a new way for the finance industry to perform its traditional role of linking savers with borrowers. It's often referred to as the shadow banking system.
Exports Are Rising. But Imports Are Rising Faster.
U.S. companies sold lots of stuff to foreign buyers in May — the most in any month since the financial crisis hit in the fall of 2008. (And by stuff, I mean goods and services.)
Might Taiwan Be the Second Greece?
Ministry of Finance revised the bond law to increase loan limit for local authority when Legislative Yuan is preparing for upcoming bond law negotiation. The Fair Tax Reform Union convenes the press conference: “Taiwan might be the second Greece!”...
$355 A Week Is Tough, But It's Even Harder Without
Debra Rousey doesn't want to get an unemployment check every week. She'd much rather get a paycheck, as she used to back in November, before she lost her job as an assistant bank manager.
Togo: Women and Adolescents Embrace Technology for Development
On June 17th, the third panafrican conference on best practices in ICT in francophone Africa opened in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso [fr]. While the conference focused on strategies to curb cyber-criminality, the Togolese blogosphere is embracing the...
UK must "reboot and rebuild" economy – PM
Britain’s past prosperity does not guarantee a prosperous future and the UK must “reboot and rebuild” its economy, Prime Minister David Cameron has warned.
The Cloud Debate: Public Versus Private
Salesforce.com's move last week to launch a legal counter-attack against Microsoft seems to signal that software's old and new guards are ready to spar over who will have the most sway over the future of cloud computing.
Former Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin Sentenced to 18 Months Following Convictions for Filing false Tax Returns, Tax Evasion, and Making False Statements
Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Roger Corbin, a former Nassau County Legislator who represented the Second Legislative District from 1995 until December 31, 2009, was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration by...
