Business Pundit

Douglas Coupland has a list of new terms for uniquely 21st century sensations. Cameron Schaefer is an independent thinker working inside of a bureaucracy (the Air Force). He also happens to write a darn good blog. Depression in the NFL: Not… Read more

Image: .A.A./Flickr If you have hideous feet, no acting skills, and a chronically dry mouth, you can’t do most of this week’s weird jobs. But if you’re gullible, there is one opportunity for you to get swindled–err, spend a month in a job and… Read more

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Image: Jason McELweenie/Flickr According to Forbes’ latest list of the 400 richest people in America, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch or Charles Schwab. The list, which ironically came out around… Read more

Image: Axcordion Philadelphia’s long-delayed SugarHouse Casino, the city’s first, opened today. SugarHouse, which features 40 table games and 1,600 slot machines, turned Philadelphia into the nation’s largest city with a casino, according to… Read more

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Image: JanneM/Flickr Mind hacks. Ever since Tom Stafford and Matt Webb introduced us to the hidden logic of our upstairs system in their 2004 neuroscience tome, these simple tricks have taken the blogosphere by storm. Nowadays, there’s a… Read more

The White House should replace Summers with Bernie Marcus, if only to keep us all entertained. National Economic Council director Larry Summers will be swapping the White House for Harvard before the end of this year. The Washington Post’s… Read more

Potash Corporation, the Canadian fertilizer company that is the world’s biggest producer of potash, wants to block Australian mega-miner BHP Billiton from a $40 billion hostile takeover. MiningWeekly has more: Potash Corporation of… Read more

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This is a guest post by FeeFighters’ Stella Fayman. If you’re in ecommerce, “payment gateway” is a phrase you’ve most likely heard before. Yet many business owners have no clue what the word “gateway” actually means. Read below to get… Read more

Image: Vvillamon/Flickr Police are investigating Vatican Bank (a commonly-used name for Istituto per le Opere di Religione, or IOR) CEO Ettore Gotti Tedeschi on suspicion of money laundering. From the BBC: Prosecutors also seized 23m euros… Read more

A few weeks after filing a non-compete lawsuit with Mark Hurd, HP has settled with the former CEO for an undisclosed amount. InformationWeek has more on the surprisingly fast resolution of the lawsuit: …one possibility is that Oracle will… Read more