Perhaps the biggest common issue for Goldman Sachs and the New Orleans Saints is that leadership allowed certain cultures to develop over time.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 05:24

Last presidential election cycle, Hugh Atkin made a name for himself for some of the grooviest parodies on YouTube. Unfortunately, the best of the best ? ?Barackroll? and ?John McCain Gets Barackroll?d ?? were taken down. This despite the fact that YouTube used the video in a press conference??and that Rick Astley, who sang the ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 04:56

At first, the question was: Will enter the tablet market? Now, the question is: How much will it sell for? Previous accounts have speculated a -branded tablet to sell for $199 to $249. But a new report suggests it might even be lower than that. Think $149 to $199, according to??Time, citing the blog Android ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 03:55

Earlier this month, the Z-Wave Alliance?a consortium of companies employing Z Wave wireless mesh networking technology in their products?announced that there are now some 600 products incorporating Z-Wave technology available in the United States. At first glance, this is pretty boring tech news. But the implication of the spread of Z-Wave is actually fairly interesting ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 03:25

The New Normal vs. Green Shoots. Thus far the contest has been lopsided, yet investors for three years now have seemingly remained convinced that a pond of Black Swans was always just up ahead, with many missing out on some of the greatest gains that the equity market has ever produced!

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 02:55

Do you not believe in God? Do you think that faith in humanity is more important than faith in a higher power? Do you think that reason is more important than belief? If so, mazel tov. You're an atheist. And you'll be happy to know that you can meet your nonbelieving brethren and sistren at the day-long event, the Reason Rally, in Washington, D.C., on March 24th.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 02:48

Sometimes, what seems like a little story is actually quite extraordinary. That's what happened earlier this month, when what seemed like business as usual thousands of miles away came and went without a lot of attention. That business, with the bang of a gavel, was the Swiss parliament amending their tax treaty with the United ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 02:34

A long-running lawsuit accusing coal companies and utilities of causing hurricanes was dismissed for good.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 01:56

Asset values are finally marching, once again, to the beat of their own drummers. For portfolio managers and investors alike, this is a welcome change of tune. Among the many investing challenges of the past few years???beyond the aftermath of a near-meltdown of the financial system and a global economy that went into a deep ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 01:26

Guest post written by Irfan Khan Irfan Khan is chief technology officer at Sybase, a unit of SAP. The sky is falling. Again. This time it's Big Data raining down on IT departments. But just like Chicken Little and aliens from outer space, the Big Data crisis is fiction. A Big Lie. Like an urban ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 01:26