This is surely the strangest deal of the day. This morning, a microcap developer of mobile applications called Vringo ? the name comes from a combination of video and ring tones -??announced a deal to merge with Innovate/Protect, a company that owns a group of patents acquired from Lycos, a search engine that last had ...

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

Ever wanted to swim with the sharks??? Cook in the kitchen with master chef Andre Rochat? Get behind the scenes of the Bellagio Fountains??? Now you can. MGM Resorts 's M life recently announced it has expanded its program beyond a players club and made the program available to all guests, effectively transforming everyday travelers ...

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

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

People sometimes ask me how writers are able to actually write amidst the hubbub at "South By." One way: holing up at the media center in the Austin Convention Center.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 01:40

Are PC sales headed for trouble? Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserted in a research note early Thursday that headwinds to PC sales growth this year are growing. He sees PC units falling 3% this year, a far more pessimistic view that the Street consensus view of 5%-7% unit growth. Misek offers five reasons why demand ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:54

Jefferies semiconductor analyst Mark Lipacis early Thursday raised his rating on Advanced Micro Devices to Buy from Hold, lifting his target to $10.50 from $7. The stock closed Wednesday at $7.76. ?AMD offers one of the best risk/reward ratios in semis,? he writes in a research note. ?On the risk-side, AMD is trading near its ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:55

starts selling its new iPad on March 16, but some reviewers have had a chance to play with the third version of the company?s best-selling tablet, known only as the iPad (no numbers of modifiers this time around.) The verdict: they love it ??? though they do acknowledge that if you have last year?s iPad ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:55

Times Higher Education, a London-based magazine, just released its second annual reputation ranking, which identifies the top 100 universities in terms of academic prestige. The ranking is based on a global, invitation-only opinion poll carried out by Ipsos for Times Higher Education's rankings data supplier, Thomson Reuters.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 02:55

In the sea of ink on Greg Smith?s bitterly public departure from Goldman Sachs, two bloggers stand out to me ? Matt Yglesias and Noah Millman. Taken together, their remarks on the Smith ordeal ? and the changes on that ultimately caused it ? raise some serious questions about whether the culprit here isn?t money ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 02:24

? The first blog post I wrote was about my biggest wastes of time while I was unemployed. Number three was, "Don't write a million cover letters."Conversely, the best use of my time was reaching out to contacts to set up informational interviews. According to the UCLA career center an informational interview is, "a highly ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:45