Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world What will business look like in 5 years? (Er, what does it look like now?) Eddie Obeng helps executives keep up with a business and social environment that's changing faster than we can know. Through Pentacle, his online business school, Obeng teaches a theory of management that focuses... Continue Reading →
Google, Carmakers Discuss Robotic Autos With U.S. Regulators
Google, Carmakers Discuss Robotic Autos With U.S. RegulatorsGoogle Inc. (GOOG) and automakers are having “extensive discussions” with U.S. safety regulators about self-driving cars such as the one the search-engine leader has developed, the top U.S. auto regulator said.“The development of automated vehicles is a worthy goal,” National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland said today at an automated-vehicles... Continue Reading →
Urban Air – Los Angeles
Urban Air - Los AngelesWHAT IS URBAN AIR? - UrbanAir transforms existing urban billboards to living, suspended bamboo gardens. Embedded with intelligent technology, UrbanAir becomes a global node - an open space in the urban skyline… An artwork, symbol, and instrument for a green future.Urban Air has been designed, engineered, and has secured the billboard to carry... Continue Reading →
Romney gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout
Romney gained at least $15.3 million from the bailoutThis investigation was supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and by the Puffin Foundation. Elements of it appear in Palast’s new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps(Seven Stories). Research assistance by Zach D. Roberts, Ari Paul, Nader... Continue Reading →
Breaking: US to Sue Bank of America for $1bn Over ‘Brazen’ Mortgage Fraud
Breaking: US to Sue Bank of America for $1bn Over 'Brazen' Mortgage FraudThe case centers around the bank's program known as "Hustle," a program it absorbed from Countrywide Financial when it bought the company.Ben Protess reports in the New York Times:Prosecutors say the effort, created in 2007 but kept alive through 2009 by Bank of America,... Continue Reading →
Central Banks Game Plan: One World Currency
Central Banks Game Plan: One World Currency Only those in total denial would claim that the world economies could grow their way out of the debt bubble. Mathematically, the rules of compound interest always destroy the purchasing value of fiat currencies. The era of zero interest rates will end.When the cost to finance debts reverts... Continue Reading →
Frightened Men Love Romney
Frightened Men Love RomneyThese are the facts you don’t want to know. This is the hard data that can make you cringe, that can despoil the soul and make you wonder at the sad state of the modern world, and gender politics, and the tragically deceived hearts of (ahem) men.All that progress! All that supposed... Continue Reading →
BBC poll: Rest of world favours Obama
BBC poll: Rest of world favours Obama An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.Only Pakistan's respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November's election.France was the most strongly pro-Obama (72%).The survey was conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA between 3 July... Continue Reading →
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