TechCrunch:
Germany-based myON-ID Media has raised an undisclosed seven-figure sum in a second round of funding from T-Online Venture Fund to expand its online reputation management platform. MyON-ID is actually more of a combination bet (Read More)
Lifehacker:
In support of small business and entrepreneurship, the normally-$149 MyCorporation service—which files all the paperwork you need to found your new company (LLC or corporation)—is free all this week, until Decemb (Read More)
New York Times:
With taxpayers’ money now sunk into struggling banks, can Main Street stomach the high salaries that some argue it takes to keep Wall Street’s leaders in place? One thing the financial crisis has demonstrated is t (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The Get Rich Slowly blog details the ins and outs of the cooling-off period, a three-business-day window the (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission enforces to cancel purchases of $25 or more. There's a good deal of fine print, as J (Read More)
New York Times:
Niall Ferguson’s latest book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis. . (Read More)
CNN:
The FBI on Monday arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on federal charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns.
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New York Times:
From Louise Story, a DealBook colleague:Paul Tudor Jones is one of the best-known, and richest, hedge fund managers in the world. But there is one thing he says he’s not: a quitter.Even as Mr. Jones blocked investors fr (Read More)
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from blog:
After the Olympics, the obsession of some with Volleyball has shot through the roof, especially with the gold medal wins by Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor (USA) in the 2008 Olympics, the buzz in the US among Volleyball ent (Read More)
New York Times:
In raising money and investing it with a nonprofit lending institution, the Meadows School in Las Vegas is by all accounts the first high school to operate a microbank. . (Read More)
New York Times:
The mediator said that the only thing left was planning the transfer of money and handover of the ship, which was captured by Somali pirates two months ago.
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Lifehacker:
Before December 1st is officially upon us, make sure you didn't miss any of November's greatest hits: How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD"With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing, you've filled hard drives (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Unless you had the foresight to stockpile wrapping paper after Christmas last year, you're looking at buying a lot of over priced paper this holiday season. At the business blog Strategize they came up with a cheap solution f (Read More)
New York Times:
California is right to look into whether the Mormon Church broke state laws by failing to report Proposition 8 campaign-related expenditures. . (Read More)
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Almost two years in, our weekly listicle, the Lifehacker Top 10, still proves to be one of the most popular posts on-site. Since our top-10-making bot is off this weekend, take a gander at 20 of the... (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The theme this holiday shopping season is frugality. J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan expects online sales to be flat this year. In a survey of U.S. consumers conducted by J.P. Morgan, nearly 30 percent of online shoppers say (Read More)
New York Times:
The shift to real-income living demands not only new spending habits, but also a wholly different way of thinking about money.
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