I think that what really has changed is that the advertising business has stopped producing Don Drapers: inspirational creative leaders that clients could trust and listen to.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

For most??investors, ?fixed income? means bonds, which in turn means a??full service brokerage account and all of its attendant fees. Yet, a wide variety of fixed-income offerings are available to those who don?t have access to a bond desk and still desire annual returns in the 5-9% range. The vast majority of these offerings trade ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

I was settling in with my new copy of The New Yorker, and read James Surowiecki?s Financial Page, on how the Japanese clothing chain Uniclo (where the one and only gets his skinny ties) has managed to become so successful. The counter-intuitive answer? Uniclo hires lots of salespeople to make sure that when people enter ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Celebrating its sixth birthday yesterday, Twitter revealed that it now has 140 million users generating a collective 340 million posts a day. That's a lot of data with a lot of patterns hidden in it, just waiting to be teased out. Does one of those patterns hold the key to predicting movement in stock prices? It appears so, according to a study published this week by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

R is for Refund. With tax season down to the wire, more and more taxpayers are wondering about the status of their refunds. Your refund information is generally available about 72 hours after your tax return is processed. You can track your refund online with the "Where's My Refund?" service offered by IRS or use ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

FedEx (FDX) reported that it earned $521 million, or $1. 65 per share, versus $231 million, or 73 [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Choosing a Certificate of Deposit (CD) term today often comes down to a grim decision: the choice between a low interest rate and a very low interest rate. And even though shorter terms represent the lower end of that scale, keeping your CD terms brief might still be the best choice for this environment. There ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Bill Maher makes an important point in today?s Times: outrage has become increasingly ubiquitous in America?s media culture, and thus increasingly devalued: When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don't like? In the last year, we've been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 16:56

I don?t know about you but $600 a month to actually use a new iPad as they?re designed to be used does sound a little over the top for me. The problem is that the networks which supply the data which the LTE equipped iPad slurps in such quantity aren?t priced right for the amount ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

For information technology leaders, cloud computing offers opportunities to make their jobs easier and help business technology shine. But what does it mean to be an IT leader in an era of do-it-yourself IT? Two new surveys suggest as cloud moves into the mainstream of business, it brings new sources of anxiety as well. A ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 16:56