Preservation of capital is an important aspect of any financial plan, but in today's economy, this is impossible without taking on some risk. At one time, you could confidently place any money you might need within one year in a high-yield savings account and be relatively confident that your money could buy at least as ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 15:27

Who cares what the 'Etch A Sketch' gaffe means for the Romney campaign? The more important question is: 'How does an Etch A Sketch work?'

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:57

How Does Parity Compare Among The Major U.S. Sports--NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Football, College Basketball? This question was originally answered by Dan Deceuster, Kavinay Kishor and William Petroff on Quora.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:55

When game company Double Fine first went to Kickstarter, they were aiming high. They hoped to raise $400,000 to fund an upcoming adventure game. When their campaign concluded last night, they had raised 3.3 million, a Kickstarter record. Financing for indie games might never be the same again. The key to their campaign is that ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 18:23

In less than two generations, during the late 19th century, Japan transformed itself from a medieval backwater to a dynamic modern economy.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 22:53

The move to leverage around movies has been largely a marketing task to date. There are apps that will remind you when a movie you wanted to see is released, one that sound-scans trailers you like and pushes it out on Twitter and Facebook, one that ranks the potential of a movie?s first weekend box ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:22

Gary Oldman is an excellent actor who has deserved each and every one of his awards. And with dozens of movies, such as Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and a few Harry Potter films, under his belt, he's had to memorize approximately ten bazillion of lines of dialog. But his memory failed him a few months ago, when he misplaced his script for The Dark Knight Rises.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 19:57

On 'Star Trek', George Takei may have been a peaceful explorer. But in social media, he's conquered Facebook in less than a year. In this interview he talks Facebook and his other projects.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 18:45

On 'Star Trek', George Takei may have been a peaceful explorer. But in social media, he's conquered Facebook in less than a year. In this interview he talks Facebook and his other projects.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 18:55

We all suspect that there is no smoke like Greg Smith without some fire. Goldman Sachs must quench those internal flames, once and for all.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 20:55

Things were very different -- yet some things weren't that different at all.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:10

Lots of people have views about U.S. military spending. Liberals and libertarians think we spend far too much on defense. On the other side, Mitt Romney speaks for many conservatives in arguing that we should spend more: "If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth," says Romney, "I am not your President. You have that President today." But while we usually think of military spending in terms of foreign wars and joint strike fighters, we often neglect one of the biggest growth drivers of the U.S. defense budget: health care.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 05:32

Moneyball, the book and movie about how the A?s fielded contending teams on a shoestring, is a term that marketers love to bat around these days. The idea is that they don?t have to depend mainly on expensive television and magazine ads to get their messages out to consumers. Instead, they can use social media ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25

I was settling in with my new copy of The New Yorker, and read James Surowiecki?s Financial Page, on how the Japanese clothing chain Uniclo (where the one and only gets his skinny ties) has managed to become so successful. The counter-intuitive answer? Uniclo hires lots of salespeople to make sure that when people enter ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

At almost every business two things are happening: The footprint of IT is rapidly expanding and the IT department is losing control of what end-users are doing. Reactionary IT managers are attempting to maintain control, clearly a losing battle. In a world teeming with SaaS applications and Bring-Your-Own-Devices, people are going to use what they ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Great communication changes people. It changes the way they feel. It changes what they do. The secret to inspiring others is connecting an idea or a vision with a hope or a need. Great communicators leverage their message and story in one way or another to make a connection and compel change. HOPEHIV's Phil Wall ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 12:23

As they do regularly, Bluefin Labs sent over an infographic about the buzz around a big television event. I?ve used their data for the Super Bowl, Grammy Awards, the Academy Awards, March Madness vs. The Walking Dead and others. Often, as part of the graphic, Bluefin demonstrated the wave of conversation as the show progresses. ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56

After the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Jones that the government needs to get warrants to put GPS trackers on citizens cars, law enforcement and government agencies across the country had to scramble to ensure that any trackers they had in the wild were 'warranted.'

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:56

How Much Does The Internet Cost To Run? This question was originally answered by Greg Price on Quora.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 17:25

How much would it cost to attend every Formula 1 event in a season? This question was originally answered on Quora by Terrance Seto.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55