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Diablo III's Reported Hacking: A Crime, Or Just A Shame?
Reports of hacking and theft of accounts from Diablo III have added to Blizzard's bumpy launch of what should have been their triumphant return to the franchise - but is virtual property virtual theft?
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Learning That Public Companies Have No Privacy Settings
For a guy obsessed with transparency and sharing, ?going public? has always been a big worry for Mark Zuckerberg. For the better part of a decade, as Facebook became first the darling of Silicon Valley, then later pretty much all of Internet-connected planet earth, Zuckerberg kept the inevitable?a big public offering--at bay. And now we know why.
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Watch Celebrities Become Hideous Monsters Right Before Your Eyes!
This is an incredible optical illusion that was discovered entirely by accident by an undergraduate student at the University of Queensland. Here's a brief intro from Matthew Thompson, one of three researchers that published a paper on the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect" in the journal Perception:
Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He looked at the especially ugly faces individually, but each of them appeared normal or even attractive. We called it the ?Flashed Face Distortion Effect? and wanted to share it with the world, so we put it on YouTube.
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Facebook, Blodget And The Return Of The Internet Bubble
Henry Blodget, the Global Research Settlement and a hot Internet IPO. Where are you Eliot Spitzer?
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Newly Leaked SAP Email Sheds Light on Cloud Computing Strategy
An interesting leaked email from a senior SAP executive has been making the rounds today. It was posted last week by Michael Kroker a Journalist & Blogger at WirtschaftsWoche, a German business weekly. The email was written on May 5th by Lars Dalgaard, an out spoken Founder and former Chief Executive Officer at Successfactors, a company SAP acquired last year for $3.4 billion.
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The Demise Of Bendix And Why CEOs Shouldn't Play Favorites
Some of you may remember William Agee, the once highly regarded (especially by himself) CEO of a Fortune 100 automotive supply company, Bendix, and his infamous affair with the undeniably appealing Mary Cunningham. She was a Harvard Business School grad who came to the Great Man's attention in 1979. Allegedly even more impressed with her mental acuity than her considerable physical charms, he arranged promotion after promotion with unseemly speed until she sat to his right, his most trusted advisor, confidante, second-in-command.
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The New Geography Of Jobs
In terms of salary, where you live may matter more than your resume, but living in metropolitan areas where there are high concentrations of college educated workers is what will push your pay higher.
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Good Jobs: Why Innovation, Location And Education Matter Most
A new book was released today by University of California at Berkeley Economics Professor and Fulbright Fellow, Enrico Bonetti, titled The New Geography Of Jobs. This young economist's research has some surprising news about jobs, and it starts with where we live.
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Think a Google Job Interview is Tough? Try The Ultimate 'Think Outside the Box' Test
The changing face of business ? the fast-evolving tech space, the impact of international competition, the search for quality employees ? creates a fluid and challenging playing field for the entrepreneur with big dreams. Success today requires more than just hard work, it requires smart work in a handful of
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No Longer The Envy Of Wall Street: Morgan Stanley's Facebook Problem
An IPO that should have made Morgan Stanley the envy of all its Wall Street competitors is turning into a bit of a mess.
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Through the Economic Lens: 2012 Looks More Like 2010
The recent selloff in the market, with nervous investors made all the more so because of the media?s obsession with financial issues in Europe, is renewing talk about bear markets and recessions as people head for cover. In the midst of their misguided fears of a contagion effect, there is also concern about the "fiscal cliff," spending cuts and higher tax rates that, at this point, will take effect on January 1. (Funny how that sounds like it would be a good idea for our debt problem.)
Looking at recent events through an economic lens makes things much clearer to see and understand. The recent deviation between economic data and market performance? whereby the economy slowed and even contracted, but the market appreciated?was highly unusual. The explanation (read: excuse) is most likely the mildness of the contraction compared to the severity of the 2008 economic disaster combined with highly unusual central bank actions. This rare outlier, however, does not make a trend. As the current economic data and sentiment continue to show improvement, we need to see market fluctuations and overreactions to events that do not materially impact our economy as just that: fluctuations and overreactions.
The short-term economy reminds me of Q2 2010 when concern over Europe and a flash crash had investors heading for the sidelines with the events of 2008 fresh in their minds. Unlike 2008, however, the economy in 2010 was growing, not slowing. The market, which ultimately took its cue from the underlying economic trend, also improved over the next few quarters. In fact, by the time we got to Q2 2011, the market was up 18% from Q2 2010.
The opposite occurred in 2011, as the market responded to the Japanese tsunami, debt problems here and abroad, and a faltering economic expansion. The economy, based on our analysis, was slowing and even contracting in 2011. With all that turmoil over the last 12 months, there is about a 30% differential between the high and the low. But if you compare where we are at Q2 2012 (for example, as of May 14, 2012), versus Q2 2011, the market is only slightly lower. That kind of volatility made the timing of portfolio shifts over the past 12 months more statistically significant than before. However, that is unlikely to continue.
In other words, the impact of timing will be less relevant to longer term performance. Of far greater importance, especially to Astor?s economics-based investing approach, is that the data suggest improvements in the economy are sustainable. Equity prices will most likely be higher this time next year?not because of arbitrary price levels today, but because the economy?s sustainability will likely produce steadily higher values.
Astor portfolios have experienced lower volatility from our high to our low, but unfortunately we are not basis points from levels one year ago. However, we are confident that our portfolios are positioned to perform over the next few quarters to be above current levels and with less volatility.
The Euro turmoil and the financial cliff will likely cause the market to be volatile, but when looking at economic factors, we believe that 2012 looks more like 2010 (when the economy was growing) than 2011 (when it was slowing/ contracting). As a result, we would also hope this year will produce returns in line with 2010, as well.
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Facebook Flop Continues, What Comes Next? (VIDEO)
In Tuesday?s Forbes Markets Desk video, Investing Editor Matt Schifrin and I talked about the fallout from Facebook?s post-IPO flop and where the stock may go from here:
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Large Investor Is Putting More Pressure On Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman
Allscripts is settling in for a fight against one of its largest shareholders. HealthCor Management has sued the electronic health record company to launch a proxy fight, according to Reuters. Last month, the health care investment firm had filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the SEC, asking that Allscripts? chief executive Glen Tullman resign. Tullman has refused.
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Timbaland To Launch His Own Line of Liqueur This Summer
Three years ago Timbaland exhorted his audience to practice temperance with the song ?Ease Off the Liquor.? Now, he?s changing his tune.
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AOL's Patch Gets a Haircut in Push For Profitability
The days of AOL treating Patch like a garbage disposal for money are officially over.
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The Elite Culture That's to Blame for the College Cost Crisis
Why can't Johnny afford college?
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Forbes Games: Google Bets On Machinima
Earlier this week, the gamer-centric online video network Machinima raised $35 million from Silicon Valley investors including Google, Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital. The site, which is best known for distributing video game trailers and about a dozen original web series via YouTube, gets more than 1.6 billion video views a month and has more than 168 million monthly users.
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Morgan Stanley Lowered Estimates On Facebook Ahead of IPO
Facebook's (FB) IPO issues have been widely reported with Nasdaq (NDAQ) taking a fair amount of the blame so far. But now, investors are blaming lead underwriter Morgan Stanley (MS) for raising the price and allocation while at the same time, Scott Devitt, the bank's Internet analyst was lowering his revenue estimates for the company, Reuters reported.
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Cool Site of The Day: Checkmarkable.com - Collaborative Team Checklists
If you're anything like me, you have a lot of things to do in the run of an ordinary day. From remembering the milk on the way home to the steps involved in a new sales lead, checklists make my life a lot easier. A simple new service aims to help. Called Checkmarkable, its a cloud based service designed to enable easy sharing and updating of collaborative checklists. It was launched to the public a few weeks ago by a company called Prime Radiant with the goal of helping you use the knowledge and experience of your whole team with the ability for you to get your work done in a repeatable way, every time.
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Studies Probe Effect Of CPAP And Sleep Apnea On Hypertension
Two studies published in JAMA provide additional but not surprising information about the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), hypertension, and the role of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).
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First Tesla Model S Cars To Be Delivered Next Month
Silicon Valley electric-car builder Tesla Motors announced it would begin shipping its long awaited Model S luxury sedan to dealers beginning on June 22, which is a month ahead of its original schedule.
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Remembering Eugene Polley, an Inventor of the TV Remote
A co-inventor of the TV remote, Eugene J. Polley, has died, at 96, and the remembrances pouring in are fond, and sometimes funny.
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Urban Agriculture Redefined, Growing Crops In Recycled Shipping Containers
Take an unused parking lot in the middle of downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Ponce de Leon Avenue, put five 320-square foot recycled shipping containers tricked out with proprietary technology to reduce overall energy consumption and increase crop yield and then grow three tons of lettuce, hydroponically.
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Mobile Gear Due Out Soon
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Google Will Simplify Motorola Mobility Focus on Bigger Launches
Google completes the Motorola Mobility acquisition today and that means a great future for Android devices. The search giant added 24,500 more patents to its existing patent bank. As an open platform, the company promises that Android will remain accessible and open to competitors.
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Seven Strategies To Beat The Retail Store Apocalypse
By Nora Aufreiter, Josh Leibowitz, Philip Dalzell-Payne, Kelly Ungerman
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Triple Crown Spurs Belmont Prices, But There Are Limits
What?s the bigger potential money maker ? playing the ponies or playing the ticket market to see them?
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How to Prune Your Organizational Grapevine
Spring is here and life is bursting out at the seams! The bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming, and people are hard at work getting their gardens ready for the growing season.
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These Are The Six Reasons Companies Drop The Ball
What exactly causes a company to drop the ball? In a story I just wrote for Gizmodo, I count down what I believe to be the tech world?s dozen biggest dropped balls of the past 15 years
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