Ernst & Young At The Golden Globes I know our annual trek through film awards is over but I?ve always associated Ernst & Young with the Golden Globes and it?s never too early to start lobbying for next year ? right? Two filmmakers that never have to lobby hard for my vote are Joel and ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 08:54

Employers have a duty to withhold taxes from employees. That's one reason the IRS likes employees better than independent contractors. See IRS, DOL And States Mount Independent Contractor Attack. The IRS gets its tax money sooner and more reliably by withholding, causing some people to believe that someday everyone will be an employee. If the ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 08:45

Twitter has acquired Posterous, the best blogging platform (imho). This is probably the beginning of an end for Posterous brand and service. In the coming weeks, it will provide its users some ?specific instructions for exporting your content to other services.? When it was launched in June 2008, Posterous? post-via-email feature set it apart from ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 08:23

Invisible Children recently launched what is now the viral video sensation called KONY 2012. The purpose of the video is to make Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the L.R.A. (Lord's Resistance Army) that has forced children to kill their parents and serve as soldiers, famous for his atrocities. Its goal being to raise global ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 08:21

Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek late Monday reiterated his Buy rating on Apple shares, while boosting his target on the stock to $699 from $599. He also lifted his calendar 2012 estimate on iPhone unit sales to 155 million from 145 million. For calendar Q1, he now sees iPhone sales of 33.2 million units, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 07:24

? If politics is the art of the possible, graceful exits are the art of the impossible. It?s very hard to resign from public office under a cloud of suspicion and come up smelling of roses. But timing does matter.??In the foul-mouthed BBC comedy ?The Thick Of It?, a satire on New Labour, a bullying ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 07:20

Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have finally seemed to have caught up to him, and that people are outraged by his callous, gross comments. So what do you do next? You do the one thing that ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 07:05

As obsessed as we all were a week ago with Apple?s iPad announcement, the global brain space filled with KONY 2012 is of another order of magnitude. Yes, it?s great that social media is buzzing with something about human beings instead of bright, shiny objects. And it?s great to think of the internet as an ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 06:24

A confluence of factors??including an??inflexible regulatory enviroment that disourages??research and??discovery,??a??paltry research pipeline for drugs??for the most serious illnesses, and??a??tendency for physicians to unnecessarily prescribe antibiotics for routine aches and pains??is??largely responsible for??the rise??of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans, speakers at a major conference on infectious diseases this week announced. ?It is a perfect storm ? antibiotic ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 05:53

Do you have dreams of becoming an entrepreneur, founding your own startup and jet-setting across the country to meet with investors? If so, you better have a stack of cash for cabs, coffee and all those hotels you?ll be staying at as you schmooze with potential business partners and other key players in your industry. ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 05:53