ReadAir Brings Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download] - SendMeRSS
ReadAir Brings Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free, open source application ReadAir syncs your Google Reader feeds to the comfort of your desktop. ReadAir—whose three-pane interface looks and feels much more like a desktop newsreader than Reader—also retains a lot of Google Reader [...]
Thunderbird 3 Gets Tabs [Alpha] - SendMeRSS
Thunderbird 3 Gets Tabs [Alpha]
The first alpha release Thunderbird 3 (for extremely early adopters) is now available, and it’s got tabs! T-bird 3 can open several messages in tabs rather than popping new windows—great news for your clean desktop.
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race: Who Spends More on What - SendMeRSS
Conspicuous Consumption and Race: Who Spends More on What
Fashionable clothes, jewelry, flashy cars…. They are all items of conspicuous consumption that give their owners status on the street. Some groups, such as blacks and Hispanics, seem to spend more on such emblems of success than others. Or is that just a stereotype? In a new [...]
Microsoft’s Vista: New Horizon or the End of the Road for PC Operating Systems? - SendMeRSS
Microsoft’s Vista: New Horizon or the End of the Road for PC Operating Systems?
After Microsoft announced on May 3 that it will drop its $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo, many — including experts at Wharton — declared the decision to be a smart move. Microsoft, they say, has more pressing issues, including the need [...]
Money Shines on Israeli Solar Startup - SendMeRSS
Money Shines on Israeli Solar Startup
Luz II has raised $115 million from the likes of Google and BP to speed the delivery of electricity generated by solar-thermal plants
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An Ideal Marketplace: For-profit Businesses Helping, Not Exploiting, the Poor - SendMeRSS
An Ideal Marketplace: For-profit Businesses Helping, Not Exploiting, the Poor
Can a company make money from the work of impoverished people in the developing world without taking advantage of them? For Patrick Byrne, the answer is a qualified yes. Byrne believes that he has found a way for his company, Overstock.com, to benefit while it helps [...]
Barclays Poaches M&A Team from ABN - SendMeRSS
Barclays Poaches M&A Team from ABN
The London-based financial services provider, still reeling from losing ABM Amro to Royal Bank of Scotland, instead hires away five top bankers
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It’s Biotech’s Year: ‘Eight Great’ Business Plans Aim to Help People Live Longer and Better - SendMeRSS
It’s Biotech’s Year: ‘Eight Great’ Business Plans Aim to Help People Live Longer and Better
A decade ago, when the Wharton Business Plan Competition (BPC) began, the Internet dominated discussions about entrepreneurship. That was before the bubble burst and many dot.coms were revealed to be, in the words of New Yorker writer John Cassidy, little more [...]
Cleaning up Its Act: How China Can Convert to More Environmentally Friendly Energy - SendMeRSS
Cleaning up Its Act: How China Can Convert to More Environmentally Friendly Energy
If China doesn’t take steps to prevent it, a big black cloud may soon engulf its economic boom. The country is growing at a torrid rate, but pollution from its hard-chugging industrial engine is expanding even faster, according to energy experts at the [...]
SFOs in Action: How the Richest Families Manage Their Wealth - SendMeRSS
SFOs in Action: How the Richest Families Manage Their Wealth
For many of the world’s richest families, SFOs — Single Family Offices — play an essential role in their investment strategy. SFOs manage the family financial portfolio and often provide other services, such as handling children’s college applications or managing the family fleet of jets. Up [...]
