Date: Mon, 30. June 2008 19:22:44

Recession who? Oracle is seeing its highest growth rate in 10 years. Wait until you hear what their strategy is. Bill Gates may have left the building‹but he¹s not throwing in the towel just yet. IBM has teamed up with chocolate maker Mars and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Can you guess what their after? Microsoft¹s expanding its technology investments in rural China through a series of programs designed to create computer literacy and foster innovation--one of which includes touring buses loaded with computers. And lastly, has your hard drive ever crashed? Did you lose everything? There¹s a company out there that is making storage as easy as turning on your PC....

Date: Mon, 28. July 2008 19:29:06

IBM will increase its investment in product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. - IBM Corp. is expected to announce on July 29 that it will increase product lifecycle management (PLM) resources and investments to help companies manage product development complexity and fine-tune global product launch operations. To help support PLMs integration as a core set of enterprise appli...

Date: Thu, 31. July 2008 20:01:29

Google Venture Capital? A Google VC? Search giant Google is reportedly considering creating a venture capital arm to scope out prospective investments and acquisitions, as Intel and other Silicon Valley companies have already done. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Google is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday, citing several people briefed on the discussions. David Drummond, the Internet search leader's senior vice president of corporate development and chief lega...

Date: Thu, 31. July 2008 19:44:58

More than 400 U.S. government agency IT projects worth an estimated $25 billion are suffering from poor planning and are underperforming, the GAO says in a report. Sen. Tom Carper claims even projects that are performing well are repeatedly rebaselining to cover cost overruns. - WASHINGTON Government agencies are spending billions of dollars on IT investments that are redundant, lack clear goals and are managed by unqualified individuals, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said July 31. Some of the projects have been delayed for more than a decade and are costing billions ...

Date: Wed, 16. July 2008 11:21:03

RIM is planning a global expansion and new handsets and software in an effort to stay competitive. RIM wants to grow Blackberry service to Russia, Latin America and Southeast Asia. · By Wojtek Dabrowski TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd (RIM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)(RIMM.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is charging ahead with international expansion plans and investments in new ...

Date: Thu, 24. July 2008 17:20:50

Sybase remains bullish on its database business after posting a 38 percent year-over-year increase in database license revenue, eclipsing estimated gains by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft in the relational database market. - Sybase's investments in database technology appear to be paying off. In its second-quarter earnings call July 23, company officials announced that license revenue for Sybase database products grew 38 percent year over year, driven by adoption of Adaptive Server Enterprise and Sybase IQ. Overa...

Date: Sun, 24. August 2008 22:24:50

Working Americans, and that's most people, are experiencing the "big squeeze." In fact, they're trying to survive one of the most profound social and economic changes in our history. The middle class is disappearing, facing a decline in standards of living. So you'd hope politicians would confront this crisis head on and not just serenade struggling families with a chorus of sympathetic but meaningless sound bites. As wages stagnate, prices are soaring. Economists call this pain the "misery index." It's a combination of the unemployment and inflation rates, and it's what politicians have in mind when they ask, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" The misery index is the highest it's been since George Bush's father became president, 17 years ago. When it comes to feeling the misery index, however, you don't go to the economists or the politicians. You go to where regular people live. And that's what we have been doing on this broadcast for months now. This week, we go to the city of the hour - Denver, the site of the Democratic National Convention. Nearly 75,000 people will gather in the Mile High City as Barack Obama makes history by becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party for president. But outside the convention center doors, history of a different, more prosaic sort is being made. This year oil hit a record high - $147 a barrel when last year, it was less than half that - around $68. A loaf of bread is up 14% from last year, a dozen eggs is up 33%, and pizza makers have seen the cost of their cheese soar from $1.30 to $1.76. Flour used to make the dough has tripled in price. As these prices soar, the value of homes is sinking. One in three home buyers since 2003 now owe more than their property's estimated worth. Not only has home equity plummeted, so has the value of other holdings, like stocks and bonds and pensions, the investments families count on as a cushion during hard times. So America's middle class, our "fearful families" as some people call them, is taking it on the chin. The history-making nominations aside, all the rhetoric from all the speakers at next week's Democratic Convention will be so much hot air above the Rockies unless the party comes to grip with how people are living and hurting today.

Date: Mon, 24. November 2008 02:27:11

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Date: Tue, 25. November 2008 15:18:23

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Date: Tue, 17. June 2008 02:19:08

Ex-House Member's Assets at Low End in Financial ReportsWashington Post - 46 minutes agoBy Mary Beth Sheridan and David A. Fahrenthold In case anyone was wondering why Albert R. Wynn quit Congress early to join a major lobbying law firm, another possible clue emerged yesterday.Reports show investments of Calif. House members San Francisco ChronicleCarson among poorest congressional members Indianapolis StarWall Street Journal Blogsall 12 news articles