McCain's $5,000 Makeup: Will There Be Backlash?
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EVGA’s dual-CPU Classified SR-2 motherboard put to the test
You know things are changing when cooling units that could once stave off overheating on top-tier graphics cards are starting to show up on motherboards. EVGA's Classified SR-2 is a supersized, dual-socket desktop building block that tries to do it all, and -- unusually for dual-CPU logic boards -- it's targeted at enthusiasts rather than [...]
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
Microsoft is indeed bringing real-time search results from Facebook and Twitter to its Bing search engine thanks to two partnerships, search head Qi Lu and senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi announced at the Web 2.0 Summit here on Wednesday. The Twitter partnership, which will bring all real-time public tweets to Bing, went live in beta on [...]
Textbook Rentals Big Business – Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg
Five year old textbook rental startup Chegg is really starting to ramp up sales, we’ve heard. The average college student, they say, spends $900 per year on textbooks. Chegg saves them 70-80% of that by renting them the books instead of selling them outright. (more...)
GMAC Tightens the Auto-Finance Screws
In a letter to GM car dealers, the financing arm says only those shoppers with credit scores above 700 will be approved for loans The Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury may be moving to buttress America's banks and keep the loans flowing. But General Motors Acceptance Corp., the finance company that is 51%-owned by Cerberus Capital Management [...]
Bush Approves Automaker Loan Program: But Will It Arrive in Time?
President Bush on Sept. 30 signed a broad spending bill that keeps government operating in the new fiscal year, and includes $7.5 billion to pay for a $25 billion loan program to help automakers and supplier companies transition plants to building more fuel efficient vehicles. (more...)
Safe Investing in a Troubled Economy
by Chris Farrell Here are some of the safest places to invest your money. But the price of safety may be low returns Warren Buffett's mentor, legendary investor Benjamin Graham, wrote that when challenged "to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety." Those are wise words for all [...]
Stocks Tumble amid AIG, Fed, SEC News
Major indexes sank Wednesday as investors digested more extraordinary developments, including the government's $85 billion bailout of AIG U.S. stocks headed sharply lower Wednesday morning amid more extraordinary developments on Wall Street. Late Tuesday, the U.S. government extended an $85 billion lifeline to crippled insurer American [...]
