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Our Idea Club question for discussion this week touches on themes brought up this fall when two powerful women were running for the top jobs in the land. Most women say Sen. Hilary Clinton (now nominated for Secretary of Stat (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
FORT RILEY, Kan. — Sgt. Ryan Nyhus spent 14 months patrolling the deadly streets of Baghdad, where five members of his platoon were shot and one died. As bad as that was, he would rather go back there than take his chan (Read More)
Gawker:
Conde Nast boss Si Newhouse will have you know that that rumor going around about him going to Europe to work out the details of replacing Vogue editor Anna Wintour with her French counterpart is utter hogwash! "This is the s (Read More)
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In 2006, Jakob Nielsen postulated that participation in online communities followed these characteristics: 90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).9% of users contribute from time to time, but o (Read More)
World News from Times Online:
He had dreams of coming to Iraq, making his fortune and migrating to Australia. Instead, Manoj Kodithuwakku, 28, a Sri Lankan, is stranded in an overcrowded hangar near a US military base with no money, no job and no way out. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
We've been calling around about the Yahoo CEO job and here's what we're hearing. Remember, it's all just industry chatter -- scuttlebutt.We hear former AOL CEO Jon Miller wants the job and is the first choice inside Yahoo. A (Read More)
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Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a meeting with governors from both parties. He gave some details on the private meeting between Obama and (Read More)
New York Times:
General Motors said it needed $12 billion in loans and a $6 billion line of credit and that it will cut jobs, factories, brands and executive pay. . (Read More)
Valleywag:
How sad that no one convincing has stepped up to run Yahoo! Pursued then spurned by Microsoft, the company is looking to replace founder Jerry Yang. Mike Murdock, a disabled Navy veteran, has raised his hand. The name sounded (Read More)
Economics RSS:
Bowie Castlebank, which owns the Klick Photopoint and Max Spielmann
photoprocessing chains as well as the William Munro Cleaners group, has gone
into administration, with the loss of 817 jobs. (Read More)
FT.com - World View:
Lakshmi Mittal's reputation has again taken a knock in France as unions in that country are on alert over the steel group's plans to cut up to 1,400 jobs. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Sports data provider Stats has acquired a rather buzzy company SportVU, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based motion-capture tech provider, for an undisclosed sum. The company, besides having sports clients, provided that famous CNN "holo (Read More)