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  • Once again reminding the public that Hollywood will go to great lengths to fight piracy, six movie studios are suing Seattle-based digital media…

  • Southerners continue to wait in lines up to a half hour long to fill up their tanks as a gas shortage continues in Georgia, North Carolina and…

  • Dr. Richard Peterson, a founder of MarketPsych, a hedge fund that makes investments based on neuro-economic research, just happened to be in our…

  • When it comes to creating new forms of lighting, the Department of Energy is passing the buck. For those savvy with light bulbs, the L Prize (or …

  • We could see the birth of the world's biggest airline, even though we are in the midst of this global financial crisis. The Associated Press is…

  • If stocks go up this morning after two days of triple digit declines, it might be thanks in part to the Oracle of Omaha….

  • The Wall Street fallout news now includes charities, museums, colleges and other institutions that have relied on the largess of Wall Street's big…

  • Sep 22, 2008

    An Emmy’s theme

    Retro advertising is paying off for cable channel AMC. Its series "Mad Men" made history by becoming the first basic-cable show to win an Emmy for…

  • We've been hearing a lot from the bureaucrats, politicians and pundits about the U.S. government's plan to restore confidence in the financial…

  • Sep 17, 2008

    Going soft on us

    Times are rough, but researchers at Georgia Pacific's Innovation Institute in Neenah, Wis., have come up with a way to bring a little bit of…