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Two Kids’ Social Networking Sites Reported to Feds for Privacy Problems

Jorgen Wouters   The owner of two social networking sites intended for children, FBFkids.com (formerly Facebook for Kids.com), has been […]

Will A Machine Replace You?

Will A Machine Replace You? Courtney Boyd Myers, 06.22.09, 06:00 PM EDT Your computer will steal your job, sell your […]

Wen Jiabao Addresses Global Imbalances And Vows To Eradicate Chinese Poverty By 2020

ByAgustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Blog, Chinese authorities have released a series of announcements indicating that they might be beginning to correct […]

Food For Thought – March Market Commentary – Who let Nuclear Godzilla into this house party?

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, The first few months of 2011 started off incredibly […]

Time to Kill the $1 Bill? GAO Report Suggests Yes

The government just won’t give up trying to shove the $1 coin into the pocketbooks of recalcitrant Americans. Between 1979 […]

Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant

From Stratfor site, A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to […]

Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war […]

Watch ‘Dark Knight’ on Facebook … Netflix Doesn’t Like This

Now you can view a movie on Facebook, in addition to updating your status, wishing friends a happy birthday and […]

Secrecy conference: In countries like Romania and Cambodia, illegal leaks can be transparency’s only hope

By Michael Morisy While, in the United States, WikiLeaks has caused a furor for its journalism-by-data-dump, similar leaks abroad are […]

Never Fight a Land War in Asia

By George Friedman, Stratfor, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future […]