Tareq and Michaele Salahi — the celebrity-chasing couple who strolled uninvited into President Barack Obama’s state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — have landed the coveted “Persons of the Year” title from The Washington Post’s leading gossip column, The Reliable Source. “Heck, the only way Tareq and Michaele ...
Microsoft settles a long-running antitrust case with Europe's competition commissioner“TO HECK with Janet Reno”, said Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft’s boss, after America’s attorney-general dared to go after the software firm in 1997 for abusing its Windows monopoly to smother Netscape, a now defunct browser firm. These words marked the beginning ...
Microsoft settles a long-running antitrust case with Europe's competition commissioner“TO HECK with Janet Reno”, said Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft’s boss, after America’s attorney-general dared to go after the software firm in 1997 for abusing its Windows monopoly to smother Netscape, a now defunct browser firm. These words marked the beginning ...
Some of the top economists say that America has suffered a permanent loss of jobs:JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg:[We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to fina...
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes today:The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural cha...
To all our American readers, I and the rest of the Lifehack team wish you the happiest of Thanksgivings today.I wanted to avoid the typical, clichéd, count-your-blessings-what-are-you-thankful-for posts. You all know that. Grade school kids know that. Heck, the ...
A countless number of ordinary folks are driving hundreds of miles to be seen for health issues because they can't afford to pay for treatment back home. It is a sad tale indeed.
It's obviously not a UFO in the sense of "aliens taking over the world" or anything, but this video shows a rather large weird semi-opaque...
"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends..." All week long, this line has been running through my head. It's from an Emerson,...
If you’ve been reading TechCrunch lately, you might have seen this article, which asks where the free version of Google Apps went. If you visit the Google Apps site, you won’t find the link to Google Apps Standard edition. Instead, you’d sign up to get a 30-day free trial, and ...