It's hard not to raise an eyebrow a millimeter or two at today's news that the "Harry Potter" series is finally making its extremely long awaited arrival in e-book format. After all, it's been almost five years since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published, and eight months since the final film adaptation hit theaters.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 18:56

Amidst early praise for President Obama's nomination of Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as head of the World Bank, Lant Pritchett, a tenured professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who worked at the World Bank for 17 years, is blasting Kim's nomination as "a terrible idea." Says Pritchett, who teaches courses in the practice ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:20

Amazon Web Services (AWS) are great, but many of our enterprise clients want those cloud services and values delivered on premise, behind their firewall, where they can protect their intellectual property. AWS isn?t very interested in providing an on-premise version of their solution (and I don?t blame them). Today?s??partnership announcement with Eucalyptus Systems doesn?t address ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 19:55

Has Goldman Sachs Become The Dumbest Firm In The World?

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

In preparation for our annual Research Conference in April, I have been actively studying our research over the last year. What I realized is that today?s business environment requires a complete rethink of many of the traditional practices of HR. Let me briefly explain. The Invention of Professional Over the last 100 years, businesses have ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 22:57

? The organization responsible for making the Tea Party a national force has thrown in the towel in its fight against Mitt Romney. ? Veteran Times political writer Ralph Z. Hallow reports that ?while it will not give an explicit endorsement,? FreedomWorks has decided that ?the time has come for Republicans to unite around the ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 16:26

Having a cold is miserable, and zinc-based "cures" don't help.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 01:56

HBO announced the cancellation of Luck, the horseracing drama produced by David Milch and Michael Mann and starring Dustin Hoffman, after a third horse died during the production of its second season. "It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 01:53

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCC) were yielding above the 2% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.62), with the stock changing hands as low as $30.91 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:23

The second iteration of HDT's battlefield robot adds more capabilities - including the ability to be right or left handed.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:57