Guest post written by Linda Conrad Linda Conrad is director of strategic business risk management at Zurich Financial Services. One year has passed since the tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami ravaged north-central Japan causing nearly 20,000 deaths, sparking a nuclear crisis and generating total economic loss of more than $300 billion. The alarming, heartbreaking images ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 01:24

Buyers and sellers have access to a myriad of online tools designed to make automotive transactions easier, faster and safer. It's easy to get overwhelmed with options. We've uncovered a dozen tips that will help you to prepare your car for sale. We consulted with three experts while compiling our tips: Keith Griffin, About.com's Guide to Used Cars; Alec Gutierrez, Senior Market Analyst of Automotive Insights for Kelley Blue Book; and Clayton Stanfield, Senior Manager at eBay Motors.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 01:24

? Earlier today, hundreds of Xbox Live gamers signed on to their accounts only to discover that their gamerscores had reset to zero. For those that don't obsessively watch their Xbox gamerscore, this is a gigantic deal: the gamerscore is an accumulation of all video achievements in the Xbox live environment - in some cases ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:55

The Securities and Exchange Commission is close to bringing civil cases against two investment firms related to secondary trading in private company stock including Facebook shares, according to Bloomberg.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:55

Mark Cuban wrote a nifty little blog post today on the Yahoo patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook that is almost certain to be taken the wrong way by casual readers. But make no mistake: there is a serious message that he is trying to deliver about the morass that is the state of current U.S. ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:55

It?s not often 16 speakers inspire a live audience of 200 for 9 hours to re-imagine banking, but that?s exactly what happened at the Computer History Museum at TEDxNewWallStreet on March 11th. This unique event where I served as the onstage host and guide for the day was organized as a walk along New??, from ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23

A lot of serious networking between tech founders, VCs and media heavyweights takes place at SXSW Interactive. Precisely none of it happened at the ScreenBurn Cosplay Competition on Sunday afternoon. Instead, there were sexy lady zombies, space marine in robotic exo-suits and the cutest lil' homicidal alien you'll ever see.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23

An emerging manager has traditionally been identified by its short (or non-existent) investment track record and modest assets under management. As a result, it can be difficult for institutional investors to evaluate these managers using their traditional tools, which may rely heavily on the prior track record of earlier funds. Historically, the term "emerging manager" ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23

Some of you may know Kevin Smith from his movies, such as Clerks and Dogma. Others of you may know him from his television show, Comic Book Men, currently on AMC (and let's not forget his work writing Daredevil and Batman comic books). And there are at least one hundred thousand of you who know Smith from his weekly podcast, "SModcast." But Smith's excellent podcast adventure is more than a weekly bull session with his producer pal, Scott Mosier: It turns out that Smodcast was an essential aspect to revitalizing his career.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23

A study by Chapin White finds that "increasing Medicaid physician fees is more clearly associated with improvements in access," which is a polite way of saying that reducing fees is associated with declines in access. White also notes that "budgetary surpluses and shortfalls appear to be the main factors prompting states to change their Medicaid fees." White doesn't explicitly state what we all know: that state budgets are collapsing under the pressure of Medicaid's growth, and that PPACA's dramatic expansion of Medicaid will therefore ultimately force states to continue to reduce Medicaid fees. And reduced fees, White's study confirms, are correlated with poorer access to care.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23