President Obama on Friday proposed to sweeten a deal from Washington to entice banks to modify payments, lower loan principal, and expand eligibility in order to help more of the 11 million American families sinking under their mortgages.
This last week, Free dropped a nuke on the wireless business, too. For €19.99, subscribers can get unlimited calls to mobile and fixed line phones in France (and to fixed line phones in 40 other countries). They get unlimited text messages.
Tired of getting hit with surprise fees? Wary of even booking a flight? Download this guide to airline fees and feel Smarter. (Caveat: all guides, phone books, directories and the like soon become obsolete, but at least this will be a starting point)
The trouble is that corporations picked the wrong incentive. Instead of tying compensation to performance in the real world, they tied it to the stock price. This was one of the lousier ideas in the history of capitalism.
Tourism in Egypt was down almost 24 percent for the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year, a government report released Wednesday said. Not surprisingly, unrest that has been ongoing since January harmed tourism during this period, the report said.
Can't even trust that a college education will be worth the paper it is printed on nowadays -- but according to this article, there are six SKILLS that are worth paying to obtain or sharpen. One is accounting, one is DIY auto mechanics.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, once the undisputed kind and the holder of world’s most-used browser is no longer on the top of the ranking which it had enjoyed for so many years but like every rise has a downfall, the same is the case with Microsoft’s Int …
Apple is making its largest hardware acquisition ever: Israeli firm Anobit. Who are they and what would they do for Apple? I’ve spoken to Anobit’s CTO, Avraham Meir, and studied the technology. Here’s what they’re buying - and why.
They all advertise on All-American Muslim!
But how about Steve Jobs? Didn't he single-handedly create tens of thousands of jobs when he invented the iPhone and iPad? After all, no one even knew they wanted an iPhone or iPad before Steve and Apple invented them. No, Steve Jobs didn't create those jobs.
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