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CEOs of public companies should be obligated to share their health status with investors. (29 July 07:16) |
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Is health a private matter? In the past week, Apple shareholders have been asking about Steve Job???s health. Apparently, he looked gaunt at recent meetings, which brought up concern. Accor... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will the China "brand" suffer more or be helped more because of the attention of the Olympics? (29 July 07:16) |
| Will the China "brand" suffer more or be helped more because of the attention of the Olympics?
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Twitter will replace blogs as the Web's best social tool. (29 July 07:16) |
| In Robert Scoble's latest column in Fast Company, "Stream of Consciousness," a few of his tweets from microblogging service, Twitter, were arranged in streams to express the conver... |
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Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching (29 July 07:16) |
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Why study interruption?
I became interested in it from my own personal experience. I moved here from Europe back in 2000. I was stunned by the amount of multitasking that I was doing here... |
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Individuals can best help the environment by building smaller homes. (27 July 03:20) |
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In the recent issue of Fast Company, Linda Tischler writes in, "The Eco-Home of Tomorrow," "Forward-thinking architects and real-estate developers are already envisioning the... |
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The Rise of Corporate Games (27 July 03:20) |
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Last month, the SimCity box set went on sale. It included five different versions of the popular city-building simulation game, which was first published for PCs in 1989. The Sims games wer... |
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“When the government buys up empty homes, it’s only helping lenders and speculators, not the people who need help.” (27 July 03:20) |
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President Bush has continually expressed his opposition to a housing bill that proposes to include $4 billion in grants for local governments to buy and refurbish foreclosed properties.
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Fast Talk Question - What’s the quickest way to get back in the job circuit after being laid off? (27 July 03:20) |
| What’s the quickest way to get back in the job circuit after being laid off?
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This world isn???t big enough for Google. (25 July 07:17) |
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Fast Talk Question - Should the federal government bring back the 55 MPH national speed limit to conserve gasoline? (25 July 07:17) |
| Should the federal government bring back the 55 MPH national speed limit to conserve gasoline?
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???When the government buys up empty homes, it???s only helping lenders and speculators, not the people who need help.??? (25 July 03:20) |
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President Bush has continually expressed his opposition to a housing bill that proposes to include $4 billion in grants for local governments to buy and refurbish foreclosed properties.
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Fast Talk Question - How can independent retailers best survive and thrive against big box competitors in the long term? (25 July 03:20) |
| How can independent retailers best survive and thrive against big box competitors in the long term?
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You Can Take That to the Bank...Not! (23 July 11:16) |
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Within five years, technology will obliterate the need for business travel. (23 July 11:16) |
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Apart from becoming more and more unpleasant, recently business travel is also becoming far less necessary. With videoconferencing technologies improving and fuel prices rising, more busin... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will the federal government be able to stave off the mortgage crisis? (23 July 11:16) |
| Will the federal government be able to stave off the mortgage crisis?
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We can best solve the climate change problem by taxing what we burn, not what we earn. (23 July 11:16) |
| Nobel laureate and former US vice-president Al Gore recently made a speech advocating that Americans abandon fossil fuels completely over the next ten years. His solution is ???that the pric... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will blockbuster escapist flicks like the Dark Knight see a resurgence as the economy tanks? (23 July 11:16) |
| Will blockbuster escapist flicks like the Dark Knight see a resurgence as the economy tanks?
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Unless gas hits $10 a gallon, Americans will continue to buy SUVs in droves. (23 July 11:16) |
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Although Toyota's Prius has piqued interest, SUVs are still selling. "Surprisingly, there is still a good majority of people buying full-sized pickups and SUVs," Mark Bruschi, gen... |
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Fast Talk Question - Could basic cable's recent Emmy nods be the beginning of a trend that makes premium cable channels like HBO (23 July 11:16) |
| Could basic cable's recent Emmy nods be the beginning of a trend that makes premium cable channels like HBO less lucrative?
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Seven Concept Cars You Wish You Could Own (21 July 05:16) |
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Flashy and innovative, concepts offer auto designers the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild. From beginning to end, designers can spend anywhere from six months to two years bri... |
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Social games like Xbox's Lips and PlayStation's Singstar are poised to rake in more revenue than either the music and the film i (21 July 05:16) |
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Recently, at the E3 games summit in LA, Microsoft announced its redesign for Xbox Live, which places more emphasis on social games like its social karaoke game, Lips. Playstation has its ow... |
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Fast Talk Question - What???s the quickest way to get back in the job circuit after being laid off? (21 July 05:16) |
| What???s the quickest way to get back in the job circuit after being laid off?
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Fast Talk Question - By reining in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline? (21 July 05:16) |
| By reining in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline?
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Fast Talk Question - Does the government have a responsibility to bail out huge corporations like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? (18 July 03:29) |
| Does the government have a responsibility to bail out huge corporations like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
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Fast Talk Question - By reigning in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline? (17 July 11:16) |
| By reigning in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline?
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In letting privacy concerns dissuade them from leveraging the iPhone's geo-location feature, MySpace and Facebook are making a b (17 July 11:16) |
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Good News: The Economy Isn't the Only Thing That's Dying (16 July 11:22) |
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Some guy in Japan just bought the farm by working too hard. You heard right. He was 45, the lead engineer for a Toyota hybrid car division. While he was helping us reduce our dependence on ... |
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The recent federal court ruling that eBay isn’t responsible for counterfeit Tiffany goods sold on its site will eventually do eB (16 July 11:22) |
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Two days ago, in contrast to previous European rulings on the subject, the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that eBay does not have any legal responsibility to control the sale of ... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will Anheuser Busch’s brand be damaged in the U.S. if it is taken over by Belgian brewer InBev? (16 July 11:22) |
| Will Anheuser Busch’s brand be damaged in the U.S. if it is taken over by Belgian brewer InBev?
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“It's unrealistic and unfair to expect developing nations like China and India to subscribe to the same emissions cap goals as d (16 July 11:22) |
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This week, climate change issues brought together sixteen nations, both developed and developing, and the EU, to discuss long-term goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. A long-... |
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Fast Talk Question-Will Hasbro’s strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulous’s popularity? (16 July 11:22) |
| Will Hasbro’s strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulous’s popularity?
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Fast Talk Question - In providing a pay-per-vew video streaming service, could Amazon become a serious alternative to iTunes? (16 July 07:16) |
| In providing a pay-per-vew video streaming service, could Amazon become a serious alternative to iTunes?
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The recent federal court ruling that eBay isn???t responsible for counterfeit Tiffany goods sold on its site will eventually do eB (16 July 07:16) |
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Two days ago, in contrast to previous European rulings on the subject, the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that eBay does not have any legal responsibility to control the sale of ... |
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"Most voters won't care that John McCain doesn't use e-mail or surf the web." (16 July 01:16) |
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Recently, just about everyone online has been bashing John McCain in light of the Presidential hopeful's candid admissions about his computer illiteracy. He doesn't use email or a Blackberr... |
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Big Wind from Texas (16 July 01:16) |
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Fast Talk Question - Will Anheuser Busch???s brand be damaged in the U.S. if it is taken over by Belgian brewer InBev? (16 July 01:16) |
| Will Anheuser Busch???s brand be damaged in the U.S. if it is taken over by Belgian brewer InBev?
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"Venture Capital confidence has declined so rapidly in Silicon Valley that the start-up community is now in crisis." (16 July 01:16) |
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Mark Cannice, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco School of Business and Management, has been surveying venture capitalists' confidence in the future ... |
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10 Web 2.0 Ideas that Failed (13 July 09:15) |
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The Web is an extremely fickle place. A Web service can be hot today, and dead in the water tomorrow. While there's no true science for determining exactly what makes one stick while anothe... |
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"The much hyped iPhone is so far behind other smartphones with all-important applications, that it will never catch up." (13 July 09:15) |
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Apple has made its platform accessible so developers can more easily create iPhone applications ??? the Apple store will carry more than 500 of these. A wise move on Jobs's part: his person... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will Twitter ever rival Paypal, with money transferred via tweets? (13 July 09:15) |
| Will Twitter ever rival Paypal, with money transferred via tweets?
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???It's unrealistic and unfair to expect developing nations like China and India to subscribe to the same emissions cap goals as d (13 July 09:15) |
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This week, climate change issues brought together sixteen nations, both developed and developing, and the EU, to discuss long-term goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. A long-... |
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Fast Talk Question-Will Hasbro???s strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulous???s popularity? (13 July 09:15) |
| Will Hasbro???s strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulous???s popularity?
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A Kick In The Career: What Do You Do When You're Branded? (13 July 09:15) |
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"If Congress protects records about what movies you rent and TV channels you watch, it should equally protect records about what (13 July 09:15) |
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Google was recently mandated under court order to turn over records of activity on YouTube, such as the user names and IP addresses of video watchers, because Viacom claimed that YouTube us... |
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Fast Talk Question- Is the world's economy really "growing" or is it just shifting its growth locations to developing countries? (13 July 09:15) |
| Is the world's economy really "growing" or is it just shifting its growth locations to developing countries?
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The Facebook bubble has burst. (13 July 09:15) |
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Facebook shares seem to be on a downward spiral. Michael Arrington reports that Bill Dagley, Managing Director of Private Wealth Partners, "has been sending out feelers to venture capi... |
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Fast Talk Question - Will Starbucks??? closing of 600 stores open a gap for possible competition? (13 July 09:15) |
| Will Starbucks??? closing of 600 stores open a gap for possible competition?
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Fast Talk Question- Did Google declare certain blogs as spam just to silence Barack Obama???s critics? (13 July 09:15) |
| Did Google declare certain blogs as spam just to silence Barack Obama???s critics?
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As biofuels soar in popularity, the cost of filling Americans??? gas tanks could be influenced as much by hail in Iowa as by the b (13 July 09:15) |
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As corn becomes an increasingly important source of fuel for America, it opens itself up the mercy of the weather. "The floods (through the Midwest) have helped send the price of ethan... |
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Fast Talk Question - Could the new milk jug adopted by Wal-mart be the beginning of an era where environmental concerns take pre (09 July 03:19) |
| Could the new milk jug adopted by Wal-mart be the beginning of an era where environmental concerns take precedence over consumer preferences?
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