VISIT LINK: The Anchoring Effect: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions (tags: psychology economics marketing shopping business anchor anchoring effect perception deal …)
No outrageous profits after seven years and half a billion users. VISIT LINK: Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 (tags: business economics facebook opinion socialnetworking social startup ipo value …)
The Giving Pledge is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. VISIT LINK: The Giving Pledge – 40 billionaires vow to donate half their wealth (tags: charity economics design economy information inspiration money people philanthropy politics social teaching bill_gates buffet [...]
Apple's stock is at an all time high. How much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product? VISIT LINK: Should I have bought Apple stock instead of an Apple product? (tags: apple business calculator comparison computers cool data economics finance fun funny humor ipod interesting lifehack list market mac [...]
The last eight presidents have gone on television and promised to move America towards an energy-independent future. VISIT LINK: An Energy-Independent Future (The Daily Show) (tags: 2010 economics energy funny government history humor news politics tv usa videos video dailyshow daily_show barackobama autos …)
A hedge fund, Magnetar, helped create arcane mortgage-based instruments, pushed for risky things to go inside them and then bet against the investments.<br /> And make sure to listen to the full story (free streaming) on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job VISIT LINK: Magnetar: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going (tags: Magnetar ThisAmericanLife [...]
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” [...]
The Billion Dollar Gram Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. It's all relative right? (tags: design business inspiration graphics image politics interesting graphicdesign statistics map visualization information war money economics data usa crisis economy color iraq dollar infographics graph chart visualisation billion infographic billions …)
Is China crowing too soon? Private vs state business: It’s quite hard to compete when you’re playing against the referee. In his book ‘A Century of Ebb and Flow’, author Wu Xiaobo argues that entrepreneurs’ problems pre-date the founding of the Communist party 60 years ago. Under the Qing emperors and the Nationalists who succeeded [...]
High bandwidth websites lose money in developing countries There may be 1.6 billion people in the world with Internet access, but fewer than half of them have incomes high enough to interest major advertisers. (tags: web business internet web2.0 marketing advertising media community network youtube international facebook analysis innovation economics localization economy india internationalization global [...]
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Why did the deal break down? [...]
The Money Meltdown Everything you need to know about the global money crisis of 2007-?. (tags: news business culture History interesting links international money economics journalism finance usa capitalism america crisis meltdown economy subprime …)
The World's Dirtiest Cities – Forbes.com To see which cities in the world were dirtiest, we turned to Mercer Human Resource Consulting’s 2007 Health and Sanitation Rankings. As part of their 2007 Quality of Life Report, they ranked 215 cities worldwide based on levels of air pollution, waste management, water potability, hospital services, medical supplies [...]
The Wire's War on the Drug War By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon "Our viewers worry or grieve for Bubbles, Bodie or Wallace, certain that these characters are fictional yet knowing they are rooted in the reality of the other America, the one rare (tags: Culture activism article crime drugs [...]