January 2010
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7 Of The Most Expensive Flops In Television History
Movie bombs get all the publicity and airtime due to the gaudy amounts of money sometimes lost, but as the recent Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien fiasco proved TV is also pretty good at pissing away money. Entertainment Weekly put out a list of TV’s 50 biggest bombs in this week’s issue, but they are […]
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Where the Apple iPad Fits into the Business World
It’s here! After eons of speculation, Apple’s Steve Jobs finally unveiled the iPad. Apple’s new touchscreen smartphone/laptop hybrid has a 9.7-inch screen, is half an inch thick, and weighs 1.5 lbs. It comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, and Apple’s own A4 chip. Jobs demonstrated today that his new multi-touch toy is an appealing hybrid of functionality, […]
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This Season’s 25 Richest NFL Players
Super Bowl XLIV is right around the corner. It takes guts, speed, and coordination for a team to make it to the Super Bowl. Paying your star players a king’s ransom doesn’t hurt, either. Indeed, most top NFL players rack up a ridiculous annual income. Who are this season’s players with the mostest? We took […]
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New Walmart Clown Commercial Goes Beyond Low Prices
Walmart is going out on a limb with a new clown commercial (featured above) that aired during the NFL conference finals. In the recent past, Walmart’s marketing strategy was relatively simple: Stream in-store ads and de-clutter stores. But the Walmart clown ad above is actually edgy, a new move for the traditionally mellow advertiser. Did […]
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Wealth Distribution in the United States
One reason for the growing disparity between the rich and the poor is the fact that most new jobs that are created pay low wages and often do not offer retirement plans or health coverage. Here is a graphic look at the widening gap between the nation’s rich and poor.
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Fortune Releases This Year’s Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
Fortune Magazine has released its coveted Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Here are this year’s top 20: 1 SAS 2 Edward Jones 3 Wegmans Food Markets 4 Google 5 Nugget Market 6 DreamWorks Animation SKG 7 NetApp 8 Boston Consulting Group 9 Qualcomm 10 Camden Property Trust 11 Robert W. Baird & […]
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One Sign it’s Not the Great Depression All Over Again
Men aren’t writing to postmasters wanting women’s jobs: Source: Contexts.org.
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Please Fire Me: Hate on the Job You Can’t Leave
Need to vent your dissatisfaction at work? Please Fire Me is a new blog devoted to the simple, oft-creative rants of dissatisfied employees. Pretty funny stuff: Please fire me. I rarely have violent ideations except for when I’m at work, in which I imagine elaborate and gory fork-related murders. Please fire me. My boss thinks […]
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Warren Buffett Still Doesn’t Like the Kraft-Cadbury Deal
Image: Lucid Investing The Oracle of Omaha, though he had some say behind Kraft sweetening its Cadbury deal, still doesn’t like it. The New York Times reports: “I’ve got a lot of doubts about the deal,” (Mr. Buffett) told CNBC’s Becky Quick. As before, Mr. Buffett’s concern remains the use of Kraft stock to pay […]
