Tag Archives: Business and Economics

Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a July 16th concert headlined by Bob Dylan and Norah Jones, and hosted by Bill Maher. The “Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Event Presented by Chase” will be streamed live from the Amazon.com gateway with the Dylan and Jones performances, …

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Next up for Paris Hilton: a handoff from Carl’s Jr. to its corporate sibling Hardee’s, as her infamous, lubricious swimsuit-Bentley-running hose-burger orgy TV commercial goes east to launch the new Spicy BBQ Thickburger, topped with Tabasco-spiked BBQ sauce and Texas Toothpicks (insert joke using “spicy” “thick” and “hot” here). The …

...the Epcot centre is a symbol of increased American isolationism because, get this, he says "it prepackages culture into bite size pieces of stereotypical servings." I don't know what the hell that is supposed to mean, maybe he's talking about the food.

America Online released a free, Internet-based e-mail service today – the first time the company has gone outside the “garden wall” of their fee-based subscription model for substantial services. Competing with free emails services like Google’s Gmail (2.3 gigabytes of storage), Yahoo (1 gigabyte for free), and Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail …

Oh . dear . lord . almighty – it’s April 15th and for the first time in my entire life I am forced to do my own taxes (our taxes to be exact.) For reasons that I would rather not go into, this is the first year we have had …

With the world’s largest population (1.3 billion) and an economy in Big Bang phase after a number of its centralized, state-controlled restrictions were removed or loosened, many predict China will be the dominant economic nation of the 21st century. University of Chicago professors, Gary Becker (economics, Nobel Laureate) and Richard …

The evolution of the internet has afforded artists an opportunity for exposure that was once primarily the domain of those fortunate enough to have gallery representation. Today, many artists, whether they are working digitally or with traditional media, use web sites as their primary means of displaying and selling their …

Penetrating, fascinating, revealing and coruscating study from Edison Media Research and Arbitron, “Internet & Multimedia 2005: The On-Demand Media Consumer.” Summary of Findings 1. Americans are changing the way they access video programming. Video programming is no longer the exclusive domain of broadcast television, and network schedules no longer completely …

The Apprentice 3: The Donald, the squirrel on his head, street smarts, book smarts. Scott Pepper and Eric Berlin, Patfish: on a mission: You’re Hired! You’re The Apprentice! Now Get in the Commercial! Kendra won. She’s the Apprentice. Which is nice – I’m happy for her. She deserved it. But …