In 2008, the Boston Consulting Group ran a lifestyle survey of 12,000 women in 22 countries. Their survey findings inform the conclusions in Women Want More, a book that details the burgeoning women’s consumer market. Each chapter includes statistics, company stories, and anecdotes from individual women. Readers finish the book with an idea of how […]
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced that she will run for Senate in California today. The Washington Post has more: “Throughout my career I’ve brought people together, and I’ve solved problems,” wrote Fiorina in an editorial in the Orange County Register today. “And that is what is needed in our government today. People who […]
Image Rumor has it that Cookie Monster is turning into a health-crazed Veggie Monster in an effort to combat childhood obesity. This isn’t the case, but Cookie Monster isn’t quite what he used to be, either. The Big Change in cookie monster actually occurred in 2005, but the rumor has found its way back to […]
Image: Wikimedia Commons Ouch. The Miami New Times has more on the casino that denied the man the winnings stated on the machine: On Sunday, a gambler at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa was playing a $4 slot machine when its bells started ringing and an enormous figure began flashing on its jackpot […]
This is a blog post by Drea Knufken. To grow money, you have to know money. And to know money, you need to study it: Its movements, who’s making it (and why), who takes it away, how to keep it, and how to grow your personal stash. Unless you’re a child prodigy like Warren Buffett, […]
Image: Harold Davis/Flickr Berkshire Hathaway announced today that it is buying railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) for $44 billion, or $100/share. It is Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest-ever takeover. Bloomberg has more on Warren Buffett, railroad tycoon: Berkshire has been building a stake in the Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad for more than two years as […]
Every business, they say, needs a catchy name – but some people evidently can’t tell the differance between ‘catchy’ and ‘ridiculous’. Would you have your haircut at Assman the barber or get a quote from Mammoth Erection scaffolders? Read on for some of the most unfortunately named companies on earth… 20. Mammoth Erection scaffolders Finding […]
Image: The Faster Times Fedor Emelianenko has been called the baddest man on the planet. We think a case can be made that he is the most fit man to have ever lived in the history of our species. Undefeated for nearly a decade, this MMA (mixed martial arts) hero’s explosive ring style leaves opponents […]
