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Google Cell Phone Tracker Follows Peoples’ Real-Time Locations

Google’s new mobile maps upgrade includes a cell phone tracker that lets you follow your friends’ or families’…

Macy’s Layoffs: 7,000 Jobs Being Eliminated

Macy’s consolidation is also a sizable elimination–of employees. The company is restructuring and, as a result, heads are…

Groundhog Day 2009: 6 More Weeks of Recession

Or was that 6 more weeks of winter? We can’t tell them apart anymore. Punxsutawney Phil, the famous…

Honest Tea Only One Aspect of Obama’s .com Management Style

The New York Times has reported that President Obama stocks his fridge with Honest Tea, an organic, Fair…

Dating a Banker Anonymous Provides Forum for Empty-Handed Gold Diggers

Bankers’ girlfriends have it hard these days. In mourning the loss of their formerly mindless affluence, the afflicted…

Calvin and Hobbes on Bailouts

Via David Zetland’s Aguanomics blog:

Drug Money Used to Bail Out Banks

Drug money has been floating banks through the crisis in some countries. Reuters, via Credit Writedowns, reports: Vienna…

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Citigroup Buys $50 Million New Corporate Jet

Image by Flickr user Shutterrudder Bad PR move, guys. The New York Post reports on Citigroup’s brand-spankin’-new Falcon…

Home Depot Layoffs: 7,000 Jobs Lost; Home Depot Expo to Close

The Washington Post reports on Home Depot’s layoffs and Home Depot Expo store closings: Home Depot Inc said…

25 Most Promising Green Businesses

Going green was big news for a while, then the collapsing economy put a cloud over the movement.…

Toll Brothers Offers 3.99% Fixed Mortgage Rate

How does a 3.5% down payment on a house with a 3.99% fixed-rate mortgage sound? This kind of…

The Sectera Edge: The World’s Most Secure Blackberry

PC World reports speculation the President Barack Obama is getting an ultra-secure Sectera Edge–basically, a Blackberry pimped out…

ReliaCard Visa Targets Unemployed People

Got unemployment insurance? You may want to load your monthly payments onto a Reliacard Visa, a prepaid, reloadable…

German Prisoner FedExes Himself Out of Jail

From Ananova: An inmate escaped from jail in Germany by posting himself out of prison in a giant…