Posted in News on Jul 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
NASA has just confirmed that there is water on the planet Mars. I feel like this should be akin to landing on the moon in terms of scientific significance.
Now that the Phoenix lander has proven the existence of water, it’s modified mission will be to find out if the surface of the red planet is [...]
Posted in News, Politics on Jul 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
France’s parliament passed a law that has effectively banished the infamous 35 hour maximum workweek the country’s citizens have enjoyed for the past 10 years.
French President Sarkozy has been making many changes to his country and has proved quite unpopular among much of the population.
I always thought of how nice it would be to have [...]
Posted in News on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Today is Bill Gates’ last day working at Microsoft, the company he founded in 1975 as a Harvard drop out that now dominates the computer operating system market worldwide. Gates has been at or near the top of the list of world’s richest people for over a decade and will be leaving the day-to-day tasks [...]
Posted in News on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
First and foremost, I am not a beer drinker. I think the stuff tastes really bad, but I do want to make a case for Anheuser-Busch (BUD) staying a US company and resisting the takeover attempt by InBev.
InBev is a Belgian brewer and is offering a staggering $46.3 Billion cash takeover of the St. Louis [...]
Posted in News on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The largest drug haul in history (by weight) has recently been destroyed in Afghanistan by two British bombers. The marijuana weighed a staggering 237 tons and was too large to move.
A loss of $400 Million worth of drugs will surely have an effect on the Afghan drug lords who are believed to be funding weapon [...]
Posted in News on Jun 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
For seven years in a row, the Federal Trade Commission has declared that identity theft complaints top their annual list. In 2006, for example, over 240,000 identity theft complaints were lodged with the commission - a staggering 36 percent of total complaints.
Lifelock is a company that can help prevent an occurrence of identity theft by [...]
Posted in Economy, News on Apr 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I find it ironic, but not surprising, that American Airlines is attempting to “pass the buck” to the FAA for its recent spat of mass flight cancellations because of wire bundles in the wheel wells of their MD-80 aircraft. By acting as if the FAA is the one causing the inconvenience on air passengers rather [...]
Posted in News on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren Buffett, the world renowned CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has once again earned the title of World’s Richest Person. Buffett beat out Bill Gates after having been the wealthiest person on the Forbes list for the past 13 years.
It seems inevitable though that Warren Buffett’s newfound glory will be short lived as Mexican business tycoon [...]
Posted in News on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
In one of the most hypocritical moves of the year thus far, the Air Force has contracted with a European company to build refueling tankers for a price of about $35 Billion. I say hypocritical because of the Federal government voting in a stimulus package and warning of an economic slowdown or recession… but then [...]
Posted in Google, News on Feb 1st, 2008 No Comments »
In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft has offered to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 Billion. If Yahoo’s board approves it will be the largest acquisition in Microsoft history.
The $31 per share offer marked a 62% premium for the stock. Yahoo has been struggling of late to compete with online search giant Google, which is suffering from [...]
