Actress Lindsay Lohan is said to have paid an extra 500 dollars per day for additional security at Betty Ford, but it was a wasted effort, as her protectors were always late for work. Sources close to Lohan, 24, revealed that her security detail was supposed to work from 6:00 a.m. until about 7:00 p.m., [...]
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Lindsay Lohan spent $500 per day on bad security at Betty Ford
December 10th, 2010 |
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Taylor Swift, Jake Gyllenhaal spent Thanksgiving Day together?
November 27th, 2010 |
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Love Story’ singer Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly celebrated Thanksgiving Day together, fuelling romance rumours. The pair first sparked rumours of a relationship after they were spotted holding hands during a stroll around Brooklyn, New York last month (Oct10). And despite telling reporters she planned to spend the holiday with family in Missouri, Swift [...]
Jeremy Grantham: “The Fed Has Spent Most of the Last 15, 20 Years Manipulating the Stock Market”
November 16th, 2010 |
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Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham – Chief Investment Strategist of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo- told CNBC last week:What I worry about most is the Fed’s activity and — QE2 is just the latest demonstration of this. The Fed has spent most of the las…
Google Spent $1.6B on 40 Companies Through 3 Quarters
October 31st, 2010 |
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Google said in an SEC filing it snapped up 40 companies through Sept. 30, spending $1.6 billion on AdMob, Slide On2 and 37 others as it seeks to compete with Facebook and others. – Google racked up 40 acquisitions for $1.6 billion through
the first three quarters of 2010, a frenetic pace of more than four per month that
recalled the buying binges of Cisco Systems in its M amp;A heyday.
The search engine, which revealed the numbers in a 10-Q
filing with the Securities an…
People Spent 22% of Their Time on Facebook, Social Sites, Says Nielsen
June 17th, 2010 |
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Nielsen said Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of their time on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such Websites in April. The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free social networks trying to make money from their users’ rampant use of their walled gardens to trade and share links, photos, videos and other information. – Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of
their time on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and
other such Websites in April, according to new data from Nielsen.
The research firm found social network or blog sites are
visited by three-quarters of consumers…
Microsoft Trumps Google, Yahoo in Total Time Spent Online
November 8th, 2009 |
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ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009. Microsoft Websites led the way, but 70 percent of the time spent on its sites was through Windows Live Messenger. Google came in at No. 2, with 9.3 percent of the minutes (2.5 billion hours). Yahoo was third with 6.3 percent of the minutes, or 1.7 billion hours, but dropped by 14 percent from its September 2008 share of almost 2 billion hours. Facebook nabbed the fourth spot, with 5 percent of the minutes, or 1.4 billion hours.
– People are spending more time on the Internet searching more, shopping more
and perhaps even working more online.
ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2
billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009, or 24 percent more than the
21.7 billion total hours…
Gordon Brown spent £4.6m on globetrotting last year
July 17th, 2009 |
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Brit Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been revealed to have spent 4.6million pounds flying round the world in private chartered aircraft over the last year at taxpayers’ expense.
Turns out the travel fare is double the 2.3million pounds bill that Tony Blair ran up in his final year in Downing Street, reports the Daily Express.
The aircraft [...]
Ramon Resa, MD: Prison Prevention for Kids – A Little Money Well Spent
July 16th, 2009 |
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Our Rotary club had an interesting and thought-provoking speaker today, given California ‘s current budget crunch. It makes you wonder whether we could be spending…
Allison Kilkenny: My Interview with the Man Who Spent 16 Years in Jail Because Sonia Sotomayor Denied His Appeal
July 15th, 2009 |
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Jeffrey Deskovic served 16 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. At the age of 16, he was arrested based…