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If there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for the Gulf Oil Spill, it’s at BP’s end. Thanks to a massive revenue shortfall associated with cleaning up the spill, BP will pay about $10 billion less in taxes over the next 4 years. The Financial Times reports: The shortfall, representing a drop of […]
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Google released App Inventor today, a program that makes creating Android apps easy enough that a non-programmer can do it. InformationWeek, where I read about this, points out that Google is lowering the barrier to app dev entry at the same time that Apple is making its rules “increasingly restrictive.” It’s a good point. From […]
What’s the secret of success? Self-discipline, of course. At least that’s what self-help guru Brian Tracy claims in No Excuses! 21 Ways to Achieve Lasting Happiness and Success. Tracy’s latest book describes how you can use self-discipline to become a successful, “superior” person in 21 areas of your life. Yes, Tracy does occasionally use the […]
US real estate prices are at record lows, but our cousin down under has quite the lucrative market, thanks to a housing shortage. Bloomberg has more: …a shortage of 200,000 dwellings…is helping fuel Australian home prices, which are 82 percent higher than in the U.S., and disproving investors such as Jeremy Grantham, who says they […]
Even though home owners are still struggling with fallen home prices, pesky home loans, and consumer spending isn’t where we’d like it to be, that hasn’t stopped Wal-Mart from reclaiming the top spot on the Fortune 500 list. Here’s a look at some startling facts about the unstoppable retailer. [Source: Home Loans] EMBED THE IMAGE […]
Most Internet users find Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pretty intuitive. Sign up, make connections, comment, respond. If you need extra tips, they’re readily available online. There are, however, some users who are unfamiliar with social networking websites, and prefer to learn about them by reading a book on how to use them. Author and publisher […]
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Image: D Sharon Pruitt/Flickr How do you reach the bottom line without bottoming out? Balancing a demanding career with a busy life can burn you out. There are ways around this. We’ve compiled 50 of them below. Quick Coping Tips When you’re in a jam, take a shot of the tips below to refresh yourself. […]
The FAA has approved the Terrafugia Transition, a flying car, as light sports aircraft. The 1,444 pound vehicle, which the company calls a “roadable aircraft” on its website, required an FAA weight exemption to fit the sports plane category (the airbags and crumple zones required to make it street legal made the Terrafugia heavier than […]
Photo: Alan Light/Flickr Forbes has released its annual Celebrity 100, a list that combines pay and media exposure (including social media and the web) to determine the world’s most powerful celebrities. Here are the top 10, with their pay (pre-tax income between June 1, 2009-10): 1 Oprah Winfrey $315 million 2 Beyonce Knowles $87 million […]
