Yuri Milner is very popular among internet entrepreneurs. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, encourages him to drop by and Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, an online games company, regards him as a trusted adviser. Among Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, feelings are decidedly cooler.
Newsweek.com is the Odd Man Out
In all the rhetoric from the two camps, no mention of Newsweek's Web site.
Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women.
Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America's Future
What happened to Moody's is what happens to every "agent" who thinks he can serve two masters. The sad thing is that it keeps happening, even though we've seen this movie before.
High-frequency trading is one of our favorite subjects over on FierceFinanceIT, and we encourage you to tune in for our take on the subject. The issue has really heated up recently as the regulatory response to the May 6 Flash Crash is expected this month.
[PDF] Why private military and security companies should be regulated
José Luis Gómez del Prado 03 Sep 2010
The independent experts of the UN Working Group on mercenaries have arrived at the logical conclusion that a new binding international legal instrument is necessary to regulate and monitor the activities of private military and security companies (PMSC) The reasons are developed in the present article…
New Checking Account Overdraft Rules Now in Effect
Your real options are explained here by Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com and author of The Credit Card Guidebook.
“Some Americans may be surprised by new changes in their checking accounts.Overdraft protection is no longer available for checking account customers unless they “opted in” for this service. The new Federal Reserve rules started yesterday.
As Barnes & Noble considers selling itself—and its founder considers forming an investor group to buy it—it, along with e-book rivals Amazon and Apple face an investigation into suspiciously uniform prices for e-books by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. [Press release]
From Dr. Hazel Henderson:
ALEXANDRA PELOSI’s latest for HBO Documentaries premieres at 9 p.m. 7/26/10:
In the Emmy-nominated filmmaker’s sixth documentary, Pelosi chronicles the lives of children living on the poverty line in one of the nation’s richest counties.
Rep. Judy Biggert and Sen. Chris Dodd introduced the film in Washington last week.
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Value is the only commonality in an increasingly complex, challenging and interdependent world.
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