It was a mixed day on Wall Street with investors taking in some lackluster economic data. The [...]

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 22:56

While Ukraine's sovereign debt problems may look similar to those of Greece, Ukraine is on its own path.?? The question is, the path to where? Despite the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's statements that Ukraine is moving toward full integration into the European Union , in many ways, from the economic perspective, the country seems to be ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 22:56

Guest post written by Auren Hoffman Auren Hoffman is??CEO of Rapleaf and a Venture Partner at Founders Fund. Follow him on his blog (Summation), Twitter (@auren), and Facebook (aurenh). It has been common wisdom for the last 50 years that if you are a long-term investor, your best return will be in stocks. Almost every ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 01:53

In Silicon Valley, corporate execs at companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Zynga like to think of themselves as making the world a better place. Apple makes products that are ?insanely great.? Google does no evil. Facebook makes the world more social. Zynga?gives you something to do while waiting in line at the DMV. But ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 06:24

As obsessed as we all were a week ago with Apple?s iPad announcement, the global brain space filled with KONY 2012 is of another order of magnitude. Yes, it?s great that social media is buzzing with something about human beings instead of bright, shiny objects. And it?s great to think of the internet as an ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 06:24

I hate standardized tests. My daughter, a straight A student at her elementary school, was freaking out over taking the PSSAs, the state issued assessment tests in Pennsylvania, this week. She was a bundle of nervous energy, talking through a litany of ?what if?? questions, all of which appeared to revolve around some kind of ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:23

Researchers at think they may have discovered why some people imbibe the social scene like smooth vodka, while others would rather drink rubbing??alcohol??than meet someone new. The difference may come down to two areas of the brain that underlie our response to new stimuli: the amygdala and hippocampus. ??The amygdala plays a crucial role in ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

Sam Bell asks a couple of good questions about our new patent paper: (1) Does the patent office itself not have an index of some sort? If not, how do they check applications against existing patents? (Surely there are not more patent officers with the time to do laborious discovery than patent lawyers with the ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

In time science will sort it out.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

In October 2010, Pfizer announced a marketing alliance with Biocon, one of India?s largest biotech firms, to develop generic (or biosimilar) versions of top-selling insulin products such as Eli Lilly?s Humalog. Pfizer would pay $200 million upfront and $150 million in potential future milestones. Now, just fifteen months later, Pfizer is cancelling the alliance. What ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53