It has been six months since Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general, started to talk to six of the world’s most powerful hi-tech companies about improving the protection of privacy of those that use mobile computing devices such as smartphones and tablets. Privacy Policy Must Pop Up Now the Golden State is finally taking action, telling…
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Wal-Mart Increasing Chinese Exposure
Last May, Walmart, the world’s largest retail business, announced it was going to buy a minority stock in a Chinese e-commerce website, Yihaodian, (Number One Store, in English,) which sells groceries and a large variety of consumer products. On Monday Walmart said it has reached an agreement with Yihaodian to purchase shares so that it…
Zoellick Leaving Post as Head of World Bank
Robert Zoellick announce on Wednesday that he will be leaving his job as president of the World Bank as of this coming June. The Obama administration promised to submit its own candidate for the job within a short time. The president of the World Bank is a post which has traditionally gone to a US…
TIM’s Two-Pronged Approach
Transcendent Investments Management is a real estate investment firm with teams in fifteen markets throughout the United States. Led by Jordan Kavana, TIM believes that in unstable markets such as real estate, investors must take an active approach, and stay flexible in case of market swings. TIM is unique in the real estate industry thanks…
Transcendent Investments Management Working Locally and Globally
One of the key components to Transcendent Investments Management and its success is its ability to look at the housing market through both global and the local lenses. Certainly, the US housing market isn’t one national market; rather it is a collection of many small, regional markets with their own ebbs and flows. To create…
Walmart & The Big Apple
One wouldn't think that opening a store that will bring employment opportunities would be difficult. Ask Walmart about its adventures trying to get into the New York City market, however, and you'll hear a different story. For years now, the Arkansas retail giant has been trying to make its way into the New York market….
Social Security Judges Subjected to More Threats of Violence
As the economy bottoms out and citizens continue to feel the stress of low incomes, unemployment and mortgage closings, some are taking it out on Administrative law judges and other staff at the Department of Social Security. There has been an 18% rise in the number of threats since last year to kill or otherwise…
Taxing the Rich No Solution to Debt Crisis, New Study Shows
New Study At Odds with Buffet’s Views In direct contradiction to calls from such stellar financial advisers, such as Warren Buffet, a new study shows that heavily taxing those US citizens earning between $1 million and $10 million will not make the county’s debt crisis magically go away.According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation’s David Logan:…
Bikers Beat JetBlue from Burbank to Long Beach
Bike Versus Jet In a modern rendition of the classic fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, a group of bikers challenged the Southern California airline JetBlue to a race. When JetBlue started to offer a $4 fare for a flight from Burbank to Long Beach, a group of bikers decided to show the world…
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