Eric Remer began his career in investment banking as an analyst for Kidder . After watching the company crumble from a major scandal and later merge with Paine Webber, he realized there's no such thing as job security at a large company. This experience made his jump to entrepreneurship easy???since then he's been involved in ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 04:56

Minecraft continues to expand to other platforms, add features, and addict players.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 04:56

Sany ??Heavy Equipment International,?? the Hong Kong-listed coal mining equipment arm of the Sany Group empire led by Chinese billionaire Liang Wengen, said last night net income rose by 15% to $122 million in 2011, and that it saw good future prospects. ??Sales?? in 2011 increased by 41% to $600 million. "Demand for new equipment ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 04:56

Why, you might ask, are billionaires propping up the campaigns of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich when Mitt Romney will almost certainly garner enough delegates to win the Republican nomination? Flow strategy, my friends, flow strategy. Whether they know it or not, the Republicans are employing the Constructal ?s principle of the ?flow of four?: ...

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

Winsway Coking Coal, whose??chairman Wang Xingchun ranked No. 377 on the 2011 Forbes China Rich List, unveiled its 2011 net profit today. Net profit increased by 13% to $135 million despite a "delicate" global economy,??Wang ??said in a statement.?? Sales rose by a quarter to $1.5 billion. It was also a landmark year for the ...

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

You know what I really hate about advertising? When it's such a brilliant product, that captures the mood perfectly, that I am reaching for my check book to order the product... and then a little tiny voice wonders if this might just be a viral video for a company that's lurking in the background. And my hopes and dreams are shattered.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 03:55

Day One - As the three day Supreme Court marathon to determine the constitutionality of Obamacare got underway this morning, it appeared clear that the Court is anxious to get to the merits of the case and is unlikely to allow an arcane, 19th century jurisdictional statue???one that could have barred the court from hearing ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 02:57

? One cancer treatment must be performed with a machine that costs $150 million, weighs 500 tons, and costs $50,000 per treatment. Yet is it better than alternatives like surgery? Bloomberg?s Robert Langreth takes a skeptical look at proton beam therapy for prostate cancer: "Proton-beam therapy is like the death star of American medical technology; ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:55

75% of U.S. citizens ages 17-24 cannot pass military entrance exams because they are not physically fit, have criminal records, or because they lack critical skills needed in modern warfare, including how to locate on a map military theaters in which the U.S. is fulsomely engaged, such as Afghanistan. The CFR Report argues that this egregious knowledge gap will make it increasingly hard to fill the ranks of U.S. foreign service, intelligence, and armed forces. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, the 25% of American students who drop out of high school will not be able to serve in the U.S. military. In addition, 30% of those who do graduate high school still lack the basic math, science, and English competency to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:55

We?ve just finished running a 2 day seminar for almost 500 entrepreneurs. We taught a lot, but we also learnt a lot. Here?s what I learnt: 1. Entrepreneurs are not just driven by money. Most of the people we spoke to wanted to create something extraordinary, not just make a profit. Sure money was of ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:25