Beware scams using PayPay: Clever rip-off artists want your money
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 22:38:41 -0700 | business-news
Beware of scams by morally corrupt people, who willingly prefer to use their knowledge and computer savvy to steal money rather than earn a living ligitmately like everyone else. PayPal is one of the latest tools used by creative thieves....
Yahoo promises to not 'screw up' Tumblr
Posted by: Elaine Cheung
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 22:43:49 -0700 | business-news
Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and the Yahoo board have agreed to buy the blogging site, Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. Rumors of the deal have been circulating throughout last week when the Wall Street Journal reported a meeting between Mayer...
Yahoo's Big Move: Buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Posted by: harry68
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 22:43:49 -0700 | business-news
With Marissa Mayer in charge at Yahoo, some big moves were already expected. The latest one might be the biggest and most expensive yet, as the company announced today that it had purchased Tumblr, the popular microblogging and social networking...
'Crazy Ants' That Eat Electrical Equipment Are Taking Over The Southeast
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 20:35:07 -0700 | business-news
A new study, published in the April 2013 issue of the journal Biological Invasions , found that these crazy ants, which are formally known as tawny crazy ants and scientifically called Nylanderia fulva , are driving out the previous ant...
Urban Dictionary Finds a Place in the Courtroom
Source: The New York Times
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 19:43:50 -0700 | business-news
For the Word on the Street, Courts Call Up an Online Witness Published: May 20, 2013 The wheels of justice move slowly sometimes, but not, apparently, as slowly as Webster's New World Dictionary. Jim Wilson/The New York Times Aaron Peckham...
As rich gain optimism, lawmakers lose economic urgency
Source: Washington Post
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 21:17:12 -0700 | business-news
Baltimore, Friday, May 17, during his second Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour. Jim Tankersley May 21, 2013 04:00 AM EDT The Washington Post Washington has all but abandoned efforts to help the economy recover faster and lawmakers don't seem...
Oman to Use Sunshine to Get Oil Out of Wells
Source: The New York Times
Coalinga :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 21:37:05 -0700 | business-news
For years, oil producers have relied on steam, created with natural gas, to heat rock below the surface and make the oil flow better. But with no natural gas easily available, Oman's national oil company , a joint venture between...
Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
Source: Chicago Tribune
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 21:16:35 -0700 | business-news
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology...GrubHub, one of Chicago's most high-profile startups, is merging with New...
Japan April exports seen up but trade deficit to persist
Source: Reuters
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-05-20 20:57:31 -0700 | business-news
Topics Newly produced cars ready for shipment are parked at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo May 21, 2013. Japan's exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by...
The Rise And Fall Of JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, America's Most Powerful Banker
Source: BusinessInsider
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 20:35:10 -0700 | business-news
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) JP Morgan is sometimes called 'The House of Dimon' for the all encompassing presence of its CEO, Jamie Dimon . For years he has been unquestionably the most powerful banker in the United States, and...
Asia Markets: Hong Kong, Sydney stocks fall; Tokyo seesaws
Source: MarketWatch
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-20 20:34:16 -0700 | business-news
Australian stocks declined, and Hong Kong equities pulled back from a three-day winning run on Tuesday, weighed by overnight losses on Wall Street and uncertainty over U.S. monetary policy. The S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7% in Sydney, and the Hang Seng...
Caixin Online: Excitement over new China stock market board
Source: MarketWatch
Jiujiang :: China | updated 2013-05-20 20:34:08 -0700 | business-news
The country's financial circles have been enthusiastic about the prospects of a large expansion this year to the New Third Board, a nationwide over-the-counter (OTC) market for non-public companies' shares, which now covers only four pilot regions.
Six Business Lessons, According to Spenser
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 20:28:32 -0700 | business-news
Writing w/ attitude about how business collides with culture, & more...Parker in 2010 brought with it an unusual business challenge. The novelist, who wrote almost 70 books, the majority of them about his iconic Boston private eye, Spenser (no first...
Why Don't Startups Like Tumblr Get Their Customers To Invest? (Instead Of Sell To Yahoo)
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 20:28:30 -0700 | business-news
Few are arguing that the combination of Yahoo and Tumblr is not a good thing for users. Forbes contributors Steve Rosenbaum and Drew Hansen have made good cases this week here and here to show that it is. Forbes' Karsten...
Title fight for J.P. Morgan CEO
Source: Boston Herald
Wilmington :: DE :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 22:38:10 -0700 | business-news
Morgan Chase could face an erosion in investor confidence if a crucial shareholder vote allows Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon to keep both job titles, according to experts...Jamie Dimon's stellar reputation has been tarnished with the entire London whale' debacle,...
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