Business Pundit

Image: Confluence Sometimes, people pay you to be who you are. These jobs can be the best kinds of gigs…if they pay more than a pittance. This week’s jobs demonstrate that you can make money being a hateful Alaskan resident, someone who needs… Read more

… Read more

Bankruptcy, foreclosure, repossession – just a few of the words that come to mind when we hear the phrase ‘credit crunch’. But for a select few the global financial crisis has generated cash, acquisitions, bonuses and, er… $1000 garbage bins!?… Read more

The Commerce Department today said the economy grew at 3.5% during the third quarter of this year. This is the first time that gross domestic product (GDP) has been positive since Q2 2008. It is also the fastest rate of growth since Q3 2007…. Read more

Image: Blogoscoped Google is rolling out Onebox (or Google Music), its new music search engine, today. When you google songs, albums, an artist name, or lyrics, Google will generate links to full songs at the top of its search results. You can… Read more

A new Senate proposal will offer a first time home buyer tax credit extension to homes under contract by April 30, 2010. The former deadline was November 30, 2009. The home buyer tax credit will also be offered to people who have lived in the… Read more

… Read more

I hate the Example Company. Their product killed my dog. Their customer service gave me road rage, which in turn made me wreck my car. They bilked me out of a $5,000 insurance payment. They are a great vampire squid wrapped around the face… Read more

Image: TechCrunch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office sent this veto letter to San Francisco assemblyman Tom Ammiano. Read horizontally, it looks innocent enough. But when you read vertically, it says “I Fuck You.” According to the San Francisco… Read more

The Harvard Business Review’s David Silverman is documenting peoples’ recovery curves after they face unexpected career hardship. As part of his project, he has been interviewing CEOs’ experiences with failure. Here’s an excerpt from his recent… Read more

Image: PC Magazine Motorola launched its first Android-based smartphone, the Droid, today. It will cost $199 with a 2-year contract and $100 mail rebate. PC Magazine has more: …the Droid is a large, slim (0.5-inch thick) phone with a… Read more

… Read more

As they say, never email anything you wouldn’t want on the front page of the newspapers. So if you’re considering using your work email to send military secrets, a character assassination or even an erotic proposition, then think again – the end… Read more

McDonald’s will close all of its restaurants in Iceland next week, after high ingredient costs, high import taxes, and a depreciation of the Icelandic krona have made the national Big Mac the most expensive in the world. The Guardian has more:… Read more