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Segregation Resurfaces In The South… TILE Two-Liners 1.10.11 >> 1.14.11

Monday, January 10th, 2011

MONDAY

  • Southern Sudan is likely to become Africa’s newest country, wrapping up a bloody 20-year civil war with the north. One of the Southern Sudanese citizens voting for independence said, “My vote is for my mother and father, and my brothers and sisters who were murdered in the war.” (BBC News)

TUESDAY

  • China gets into carbon trading – an approach to global warming that requires carbon-producing companies to basically buy the right to pollute from other companies. Huge news for one of the world’s biggest economies – largely powered by coal. (The New York Times)

WEDNESDAY

  • The commission investigating BP’s giant oil spill confirms that mistakes by BP and others led to the spill. Oil industry: Prepare to be regulated. (The Wall Street Journal)

THURSDAY

  • North Carolina school board restores policy of economic segregation in public schools. (The Washington Post)

FRIDAY

  • Health care coverage is becoming unaffordable for more and more Americans. Even nonprofit health insurance provider Blue Shield of California has raised rates 59% over 5 months. And another 15% increase is on the way. (The Los Angeles Times)

U.S. Becoming Less Trustworthy? TILE Two-Liners 1.10.11 >> 1.14.11

Monday, January 10th, 2011

MONDAY

  • Portugal promises to pay you a handsome 7% interest rate if you lend it some money by buying a bond. Of course, the country may go bankrupt trying to pay you back. (BBC News)

TUESDAY

  • Economic growth in China, U.S., France, and Japan may lead the way to a good year for the rest of the world. (The Wall Street Journal)

WEDNESDAY

  • Whew! Portugal doesn’t have to bribe bond buyers with handsome rates after all. European markets stop freaking out about a potential bailout. (The Washington Post)

THURSDAY

  • Mother nature shows interest in finance, dumps water on Australia. Flooding could cost the country up to 1% in economic growth this year! (BBC News)

FRIDAY

  • You’re not the only one who should be worrying about your credit score – because of rising debt, the U.S. may lose its sparkling AAA credit rating. (The Wall Street Journal)

Grounded Jets, Space Jets(!), and Misleading Celebrity Tweeters… TILE Two-Liners 1.10.11 >> 1.14.11

Monday, January 10th, 2011

MONDAY

  • “Cupcake leader” Crumbs (a chain of bakery shops) was just sold for $66 million, proving that the American epidemic of childhood obesity *can* be profitable. (The Wall Street Journal)

TUESDAY

  • Radiohead just keeps on flipping the music industry script. They’re allowing a group of fans to sell a bootleg concert DVD made up of clips secretly shot by 14 different audience members. The catch? All profits have to go to Oxfam. The concert was, after all, a benefit for Haiti. (BBC News)

WEDNESDAY

  • Someday, someone will literally fly you to the moon and let you play among the stars. For a price, of course. (BBC News)

THURDSAY

  • Don’t believe everything your favorite celebrities tweet: They may be on an ad agency’s payroll. (Bloomberg)

FRIDAY

  • If you thought this winter’s snowstorms were annoying for your family, think about the airline industry, which lost over $100 million because of cancelled flights. (The Wall Street Journal)

Broken Windows, Weird Weather, and Lonely Protests… TILE Two-Liners 1.3.11 >> 1.7.11

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

MONDAY

TUESDAY

  • Microfinance took off in India, then crashed, and is in the process of burning. Extremely high interest rates + lending to people with absolutely no plan for repayment = government crackdown. (NPR)

WEDNESDAY

  • “[Uptown Manhattan private school] Dalton was kind of like that parent who, rather than play with their kid and encourage and grow their curiosity, brings it to the doctor and gets them Adderall instead.” (The New York Times)
  • Even if you don’t have a permit for a protest in Russia, you can still hold your sign up alone. (The Washington Post)

THURSDAY

  • The South Bronx fought hard against urban blight in the 1970s, but the real estate bubble burst and there are more broken windows on the block these days. (The New York Times)
  • Electric car technology now valuable enough to warrant corporate espionage! (The New York Times)

FRIDAY

  • Apparently the definition of “normal” weather changes every so often. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s changing now. (The New York Times)

Wicked Discounts, Cardigans, and Remote Controls… TILE Two-Liners 1.3.11 >> 1.7.11

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

MONDAY

  • His house may be “reminiscent of a Provençal villa,” but our former U.S. Treasury Secretary still lost a million dollars when he tried to sell it. (Reuters)

TUESDAY

  • For those of you who still use a television, Netflix wants to make streaming movie access as brainless as possible. (The Wall Street Journal)

WEDNESDAY

  • Have an extra $3 billion lying around and a taste for preppy clothes? Then you can compete with Sears and Urban Outfitters to buy J.Crew! (The New York Times)
  • MySpace to lay off 1,100 employees. In other news, MySpace actually has 1,100 employees to lay off. (The Wall Street Journal)

THURSDAY

  • If you’ve held out on buying an iPhone 3GS this long, congratulations. They’re now 50% off. (The Wall Street Journal)

FRIDAY

  • If your mom suddenly seems to know too much about your personal life, you may be the latest victim of Misdirectedtext-gate. (BBC News)

Own A Piece Of Facebook! TILE Two-Liners 1.3.11 >> 1.7.11

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

MONDAY

  • The National Weather Service and the stock market go together like frigid weather forecasts and rising oil prices. That’s cold. (Reuters)
  • Big news: “It’s hard to anticipate the direction of financial markets.” (thanks for the heads-up, Wall Street Journal)

TUESDAY

  • Middle-aged white guys at Goldman Sachs value Facebook at $50 billion, scramble to get a piece of it before the company’s stock becomes publicly available. (Wall Street Journal)
  • 6,000 new jobs at dollar stores are still new jobs, aren’t they? (CNN)

WEDNESDAY

  • Microsoft-Google deathmatch: Who gets to provide email services to the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife? (Wall Street Journal)

THURSDAY

  • Reason 1,174 to be glad you’re a person and not a state: States lost an average of 30% of their revenue in 2009. (The Washington Post)

FRIDAY

Surprise! Barnes & Noble Colors Its Nook

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Amazon.com’s Kindle has been dominating the e-book market since the get-go, but the Kindle just got sucker-punched by Barnes & Noble’s all-new Nook Color. (Who’s naming these things?)

Full-color photo spread (including gratuitous moustache shot) in the original article:
Bloomberg, 12/2/10: Color Nook One-Ups Kindle in E-Reader Battle: Rich Jaroslovsky

Italy Cutting Higher Education To Balance Budget

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Weak economy, lots of debt, high unemployment. Up next: fewer universities!

Read the original to see students handing books to riot police in Rome:
BBC News, 12/22/10: Italian students demonstrate against education reforms

What Happens When You Tell Google To Take A Hike?

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Apparently they fund one of your competitors and DESTROY YOU.

(Back story: Google offered to buy wildly successful Internet coupon company Groupon for $6 billion. Groupon said, “meh.”)

Read the original:
BBC News, 12/21/20: Google eyes smaller players after Groupon: report

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