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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 […]
Bankruptcy, foreclosure, repossession – just a few of the words that come to mind when we hear the phrase ‘credit crunch’. But for a select few the global financial crisis has generated cash, acquisitions, bonuses and, er… $1000 garbage bins!? Take a look at Business Pundit’s round up of the biggest winners (and one loser). […]
Image: PC Magazine Motorola launched its first Android-based smartphone, the Droid, today. It will cost $199 with a 2-year contract and $100 mail rebate. PC Magazine has more: …the Droid is a large, slim (0.5-inch thick) phone with a 3.7-inch, 854-by-480 capacitive touch screen and a sliding keyboard. It has a built-in 5-megapixel camera, DVD-quality […]
As they say, never email anything you wouldn’t want on the front page of the newspapers. So if you’re considering using your work email to send military secrets, a character assassination or even an erotic proposition, then think again – the end result could cost you your job, as well as your dignity. These chumps […]
This is a guest post by Resource Nation‘s David Liu. Yahoo has announced that it will end its paid inclusion program, formally called Search Submit Pro, by the end of 2009. The move comes after complaints against the search engine that claimed that having paid advertisements included in organic search results generated biased results for […]
Image: The Reading Nook Disney is offering a DVD upgrade or moneyback guarantee to everyone who purchased a Baby Einstein DVD between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009 (the day the notice was put out). The recall, if you want to call it that, came about after interest groups pressured the company to offer […]
