We can all read the news. Credit is frozen, or nearly so, and the federal government is laboring mightily to get credit flowing again. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. as well as in other places like the UK, banks have become averse to doing business. The news reports I read say that after being too lax, many banks are being too strict in their lending policies and are sitting on the cash that governments have given them to lend.
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Advocates of Net neutrality rules in the U.S. have called on President-elect Barack Obama to act quickly to prevent broadband providers from blocking or impairing access to Internet content of customers' choice.
Online retail sales grew significantly over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend -- plus Cyber Monday -- this year compared with 2007, but comScore maintains its prediction that spending will be flat for the full holiday season.
Classifieds site Oodle announced today that it will re-invent the Facebook Marketplace as a social market in which users can buy and sell with friends and community members. The new Oodle-powered classifieds are slated to launch in the first ...
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Marcel Wanders talked about the fairy tale that informed the design of the new Mondrian Hotel in Miami, and the fear he has to face down every time he begins a new project. John Maeda spoke of design's hidden return on investment -- its impact on ...
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Drive through many towns on the East Coast, and you'll see the same fossils of urban development: an old, blighted town center and a few miles away, a modern retail strip with ample parking, brightly-lit chain shops and, inevitably, a Starbucks ...
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That's the suggestion of the LA Times' auto critic Dan Neil.
"If you feel the gall of free-market ideology rising, consider that the measures being bruited about as preconditions for a bailout -- firing GM's top management; forcing a ...
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I think that many would argue that the role of a professional athlete in an organization, especially a famous one, is a bit of an anomaly compared to the daily reality of most other inhabitants of Planet Earth -- even if these athletes are part of a ...
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This morning at PSFK's "Good Ideas in Digital" salon, the consensus was that 2008 was the year the "virtual reality" we've been prognosticating for decades finally arrived. Only, instead it being some kind of sci-fi-3D-style headgear, virtual ...
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