Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer, is taken steps to help soften the blow of Libya’s civil war and dramatic decrease in oil production. Libya, responsible for about 2% of the world’s oil production, has cut its output by 75% from 1.58 million barrels a day. The impact of the situation in Libya and […]
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Most of our finances are online or done at least on a computer nowadays. And that includes our taxes, which now 70% of taxpayers e-file and about as many have their refunds directly deposited into their bank accounts. But for one state this year, my own state of Georgia, it was disastrous. Somehow – they […]
Google’s logo today is celebrating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address which occurred on January 20th, 1961. The words rang out to a world that needed hope, change, and victory. A world that was facing massive innovation and change in both economics and advancement in technology. It has been said to […]
A United States federal court has issued a subpoena to Twitter requesting for data relating to Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Twitter received some unlikely news this week from a United States federal court. The feds are requesting information regarding Wikileaks, the Wikileaks Twitter feed, and the Twitter profile’s of top Wikileaks’ officials including Wikileaks founder […]
Despite the bad rep of the late 90’s and the Internet bubble crash, there are still Internet companies that are thriving on the web. None more impressive than the social networking giant Facebook. A new study by the New York securities firm NYPPEX is putting Facebook at the value of $41.2 billion. The value the […]
Have you heard? The future of the web is mobile… And this “mobile revolution” is occurring today, as we speak. Take Ebay for example. Just yesterday (Sunday, December 12th, 2010), over $13 million in merchandise was sold worldwide through Ebay mobile applications. In the United States alone, $5 million worth of merchandise was sold yesterday […]
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Should Schools Ban Chocolate Milk?
Schools districts throughout the United States are starting to ban chocolate milk from their lunch rooms. Is this something that school districts should be concerned with? Schools in Washington DC, Florida, California, and Colorado have already done it, while other districts are still debating the issue. The issue at hand is that school districts don’t […]