The Times Magazine's cover story this week is a trenchant summation of the state of North America's largest casino ? the Foxwoods Resort Casino, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, in Connecticut - and of the gambling business more generally. Foxwoods is the benchmark for an industry in flux. As reporter Michael Sokolove puts ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:53

Food prices have skyrocketed over the past couple years. ??While overall U.S. food prices rose about 5% last year, earlier in the year food inflation was the highest recorded in 36 years.?? The USDA sees food prices rising 2.5%-3.5% in 2012 but many believe that inflation could be much higher.?? This is concerning since the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

? Chumps and hipsters may be tenting up outside of stores desperate for the new iPad and the chance to pplay Angry Birds with a shaper screen??hours before anyone else, but the real tech-savvy people are headed elsewhere for the very first next-gen tablets. Wal Mart is going to start selling limited stocks of the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

Before classic NCAA Tournament footage gets to the networks, it gets spruced up by Thought Equiity Motion.

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It seems that Web 2.0 superstar and Digg founder Kevin Rose and his team from the Internet startup development lab??Milk will join Google. So far, there?s no official word, so Rose and Co.?s role remains uncertain. Here are some ideas about what Rose could do for , especially for its social network thingie +: 1) ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

Self-promotion alert: on Friday, about 9 a.m. time, I?ll be among those guesting on WBEZ-FM?s Eight Forty-Eight to talk about the issue of homosexuality and sports. One question that often comes up in these conversations: When will we see the first prominent male pro athlete come out during his career? It would seem that pro ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

Bank takes heat from ex-employee; iPad 3 goes on sale Friday.

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Andrew Goldberg, EVP and Head of the Change Management Practice at Makovsky + Company is today's guest blogger. The recent allegations of a mid-level banker at Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, that the firm relegates client needs to its search for quick profit is only the latest in a number of events since before the financial ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

The gadget teardown artists at iFixit got their hands on the new iPad a day before the rest of the world, thanks to an airline ticket to Australia. What they found, after prying off the front panel and display with the help of a heat gun, guitar picks, and heavy duty suction cups: ??a device ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

In trading on Thursday, shares of Astoria Financial Corp. (NYSE: AF) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $9.63, changing hands as high as $9.64 per share. Astoria Financial Corp. shares are currently trading up about 3.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of AF shares, versus its 200 ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23