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Microsoft says cost-cutting CFO to step down

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other ...


Lenovo buying back mobile phone business

Technology / Business

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.


Racial segregation key factor in subprime lending

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New study examines impact of segregation on the prevalence of high-cost loans in U.S. metro areas. Subprime loans disproportionately located in segregated areas.


Is global warming unstoppable?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (50) | comments 68

In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the ...


Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution

Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (34) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- Terms such as the "invisible hand," laissez-faire policy, and free-market principles suggest that economic growth and decline in capitalist societies seem to be somehow self-regulated. Now, ...


UN: $39 billion needed for pneumonia

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years.


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Microsoft is raising cloud computing concerns

Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns

Technology / Software

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."


Human emissions rise 2 percent despite GFC

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 percent since 2000

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 7

The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world's natural 'sinks' to absorb carbon is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. ...


UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem ...



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