Unfortunately for the people who live and work there, south Louisiana is a living laboratory for climate change. The huge marshlands have been sinking and eroding for more than a century, ever since the leveeing of the Mississippi River cut off the marshes? supply of silt, and decades of oil and gas drilling carved them ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 16:53

After much speculation Apple has announced a $2.65 per share dividend for its stockholders. The payouts will begin July 1st. To prevent any future stock dilution will also initiate a $10 billion share buyback plan. Based on premarket trading, folks approve of ?s decision to do something with its massive stores of cash. Honestly though, ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 15:24

Last fall, Harvard Review published a paper titled "Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think," by??Bent Flyvbjerg??and??Alexander Budzier. It spurred a conversation here at Verisk Analytics regarding how companies can avoid the risk of investing in disastrous IT projects, or "IT black swans." According to the article, black swan is a term ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 15:22

is still best-known for its iconic applications such as Photoshop and Flash. But in the past couple of years or so, it has been making a big push into online marketing and advertising, buying Web analytics firm Omniture in 2009 and, more recently, acquiring digital ad buying platform Efficient Frontier in January. Brad Rencher, senior ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54

Patients are the ones who pay for medicines, payors are. The new social compact: drug companies can charge what they want so long as everybody gets their meds.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 20:28

NFL free agent deals are a roll of the dice. As Peyton Manning heads to Denver, the question remains whether he will be a Brees or a Haynesworth?

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 20:01

IAC/Interactive this morning announced that it named former AOL exec Kelly Trainer as CEO of Vimeo, the Web-based video site. Trainor had been Senior VP and General Manager, Entertainment for AOL?s Huffington Post Media Group. At AOL, he ran a variety of entertainment properties, including??AOL Music, AOL TV, Moviefone, Huffington Post Entertainment, Huffington Post Celebrity ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 19:54

iPad-maker announces dividend, buyback to return capital to shareholders.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54

Beware: reverse mortgages are being marketed as a short-term panacea for financial woes.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54

Are networks and relationships changing the fundamental structures of how we organize and operate in the world? Who creates these new structures and who is accountable for them? How do they relate to our institutions and to our businesses? In a discussion with noted author of Macrowikinomics and business management thought leader, Don Tapscott, at ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54