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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia announced a $300 million investment in Twitter today. Alwaleed is one of several mega-investors to have pumped serious cash into Twitter in 2011; however, there are fears Alwaleed will censor Twitter
Read More »Protect Your Business From the European Meltdown. Now.
Every money manager I interview is worried that Europe could blow any day now. Here's how to make sure your business survives.
Read More »Largest ever gas mix caught in ultra-freeze trap
A team of scientists have made it easier to study atomic or subatomic-scale properties of the building blocks of matter (which also include protons, neutrons and electrons) known as fermions by slowing down the movement of a large quantity of gaseous atoms at ultra-low temperature.
Read More »CERN plans to announce latest results in search for Higgs boson particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists collaborating on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva will announce their latest results in the search for the Higgs boson particle on Tuesday 13 December.
Read More »Climate Talks Prove Growing Need for Carbon Capture and Storage Globally
DURBAN, South Africa--The roughly 3,000 fossil fuel–fired power plants in North America--Canada, Mexico and the U.S.--emit 6 percent of global greenhouse gases , or nearly as much as all of the European Union. In fact, coal-fired power plants around the globe are the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. [More]
Read More »EU continues to be one big dysfunctional economic family
New treaty promises a lot for the future and fixes exactly none of the problems which are threatening the world economy. Last time we checked in on the Euro family , everyone was terrified that cousin Silvio (and those other deadbeats: Constantine, Seamus and Fatima) wouldn’t be able to make the payments on his family business
Read More »Doing Business in Europe? You Should be Hedging
There is one way to prepare for a Euro zone meltdown. If you do business overseas, it's time to consider hedging
Read More »8 Questions to Ask About the Euro Mess
European leaders are meeting today on yet another Grand Plan to bail out the Euro. Why you, and your business, better hope they succeed. The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone.
Read More »Eileen Fisher Goes Abroad
Breaking into an international market is time-consuming, and risks becoming a big distraction. What can you learn from how Eileen Fisher did it? I wrote recently about how hard — but also how important — it is to export right now
Read More »Random noise helps make signals clearer
Scientists have shown the energy conditions, under which a weak signal supplied to a physical system emerges as a stronger signal at the output thanks to the presence of random noise (a process known as stochastic resonance), in a paper that has just been published in European Physical Journal B.
Read More »Start-ups Enter the Irrational Exuberance Phase
Congress is beginning to view entrepreneurship by 20-somethings as a low-cost fix for all that ails the economy. A little realism, please?
Read More »X-ray techniques help art historians verify Rembrandt sketch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Advanced imaging technology from the Brookhaven Labs and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble has revealed an authentic Rembrandt self-portrait in an art authenticity effort involving leading art historians and scientists at the two labs. The hunt for authenticity all began when a private collector showed art historians in Amsterdam a small panel Old Man with a Beard from about 1630.
Read More »Jobs Report: Why Small Business Is Still Lagging
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Read More »How the Fed Lied about Loans to Big Banks
Huge secret loans from the Fed have enriched the very banks who now refuse to lend to small business.
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