Private schools in New York are adopting data-mining techniques to determine how charitable parents can afford to be.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 17:57

Tumblr appears to be taking seriously instructions from the Federal Trade Commission for companies to make their privacy policies and terms of service more readable.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56

The luxury passenger ship, RMS Titanic, proclaimed "unsinkable," slid into the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg, taking 1,517 people with her. The 100th year anniversary of one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history will be held on April 15. QVC will be noting the anniversary by unveiling its ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 17:26

Dodai Stewart, writing at Jezebel, has a really saddening, depressing piece up on some Hunger Games fans? reactions to the inclusion of black characters in the film adaptation of the book. Turns out some people just really, really didn?t want brown-skinned characters from the book to have brown skin on screen. Of course, this is ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

Goldman Sachs analyst Scott Goldman this morning cut his rating on Rackspace to Neutral from Buy on a valuation basis. He has a $57 target on the stock, which closed yesterday at $57.80. ?We remain positive on the opportunity in cloud computing and believe RAX is well positioned among peers, but we are disciplined on ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:56

America's leading freight railroads are plotting their return to passenger service as Amtrak faces a threat from privatizing politicians in Congress, a former Amtrak CEO said in Wednesday. "This is a difficult time for Amtrak," former Amtrak Chairman and CEO Tom Downs told about 70 people gathered at a rountable hosted by the Metropolitan Planning ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 16:23

Teri Weaver has an excellent article in the Post-Standard on raising the minimum wage in . ??Not surprisingly, she finds that minimum wage workers would welcome the pay increase. She also captures nicely the debate among economists and advocates on all sides about the effect of a minimum wage increase on employment. As an economist, ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 20:24

Ralph Lauren will design uniforms for nearly 800 members of the U.S. Olympic team when they go to London for the summer games this July.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 18:55

An independent consultant largely defended the Department of ?s loan program in Senate testimony today before Sen. Rand Paul criticicized him for not specifically examining Solyndra and other controversial recipients of DOE loans. Independent consultant??Herbert Allison told members of the Senate and Natural Resources Committee that ?These programs are intended to encourage risktaking. That's the ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:25

This year marks another historic year for multi-faceted??19 year old??rapper, Mac Miller.?? One of the major upgrades being style.?? Mac Miller has emerged as one of the nations leading enterainters in the world of?? music. The??bottom to top ??transformation seen here provides a significantly visually-enhanced experience to go along with??Miller?s ??tight production??schedule and??all time high??workout ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25