Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?
Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:14 PM EST
WHEN Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user.
That staggering growth rate — doubling in size in just eight months — suggests Facebook is rapidly
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Is It Time To Look At Microsoft?
Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:14 AM EST
Microsoft! The cash cow that never gets it's credit. The 800 pound gorilla. The company with software that basically runs the world. The company with 20 billion dollars of cash on it's books. For years now the company has not really received it's " love". Well I am giving it my love. Have you noticed they have been a bit outspoken. I see some great commercials of there sof
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Web Content Management 101
Monday, March 23, 2009 12:16 PM EST
Wikipedia defines a content management system (CMS) as a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text. It sounds simple but amazingly enough my life was a living hell trying to build www.worldmarketmedia.com before I met with my developers at Vesta Digital . With their help we started using the
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Dow Leaps 497 Points as U.S. Lays Out Bank Rescue Plan
Monday, March 23, 2009 10:03 AM EST
On Monday, Wall Street gave the government what amounted to a do-over for the administration and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.
When the Obama administration outlined its plans to stabilize the banking system last month, leery investors panned the proposal as being short on substance and sent stock markets into a tailspin. But investors went on a tear Monday
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World Market Media Launches Global Online Investment Community (VIDEO)
Monday, March 23, 2009 4:24 AM EST
Palm Beach, FL --(NEWSWIRE)-- World Market Media, Inc. (WMM) announces the launch of our Global Online Investment Community platform. According to Ronald P. Russo, Jr., Founder & Social Equity Officer, the site is an exciting place for those interested in the capital markets and the global economy.
“We are building a Global Social Media Network of all the World's
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Twitter Design Difficulties
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:34 PM EST
Couldn’t sleep at all last night so decided to spend the time working on our Twitter initiative. I downloaded and installed TwitterBerry to my handheld in seconds flat. It seems as easy as that was it was equally as difficult to change our Twitter background design on their website.
Unless I am missing something Twitter doesn’t offer much in terms of assistance on thi
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Russian scholar says US will collapse - next year
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:06 PM EST
MOSCOW – If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Mini
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US Stocks Bounce; DJIA Above 7000 1st Time Since March 2
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:24 AM EST
U.S. stocks swung higher, briefly moving above 7000, after an up-and-down start to trading Wednesday that follows the biggest one-day rally in more than four months. Financial stocks remained a bright spot.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed shortly after the opening bell, fell in early trading, and quickly recovered to gain 65 points. The S&P 500-st
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United Tech to cut 11,600 jobs, lowers 2009 outlook
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:07 AM EST
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- United Technologies Corp. lowered its 2009 earnings outlook on Tuesday and said it will reduce headcount by an additional 11,600 workers as conditions in the aerospace and construction industries deteriorate further.
"People are executing backlog at a slower pace," said Chief Executive Louis Chenevert during a conference call with a
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Oil falls as U.S. agency forecasts lower prices
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:06 AM EST
The pullback comes one day on the heels of the contract closing at a two-month high.
According to the Energy Information Administration's monthly report, oil will average $42 a barrel this year and $53 next year. A month ago by contrast, the EIA, the Energy Department's statistics arm, had said that it expected prices to average $43 and $55,
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