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Nuclear : Clean, Safe, Affordable Power

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy, Technology

Brilliant idea !
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

Clean, Safe, Affordable Power 
Where you need it,  When you need it.

Who would have thought that the benefits of generating electricity from huge nuclear power plants…

 
 Clean
no greenhouse gases to contribute to climate change Safe
the most controlled and regulated type of power on the planet Affordable
the cheapest in terms of dollars & environmental impact
 Reliable
Available 24 /7 rain or [...]

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Microsoft withdraws Yahoo offer

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology

Steve Balmers’s letter to Jerry Yang
 
Mr. Jerry Yang
CEO and Chief Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Dear Jerry:
After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!.
I first want to convey my personal thanks to you, your management team, and Yahoo!’s Board of Directors for your [...]

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Kindle . . . the revolution in “books” ?

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology

Jeff Bezos, founder, CEO of Amazon.com, has been a remarkable entrepreneur. His latest product introduction Kindle - sometimes called a “wireless reading device” is the first successful digital book. 
In a letter to shareholders of Amazon.com, Bezos provides interesting insights on Kindle. Read the letter here.

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Rupert Murdoch and New York . . .

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology

Rupert Murdoch, born in Melbourne,Australia(1931), now a naturalised US citizen, continues to consolidate and strenghten his global media empire. His acquisitions in the New York market (e.g. Wall Street Journal)suggest that the NYTimes may lose its unquestioned influence of the past in the “newspaper”/opinion maker market. Here is an analyst’s view:

Lauren Rich Fine On Rupert Murdoch’s Newspaper [...]

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President Bush on Climate Change

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy, Technology

President Bush today announced  in the Rose Garden new national goals: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emission by 2025.
He said :
I have put our nation on a path to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of our greenhouse gas emissions. In 2002, I announced our first step: to reduce America’s greenhouse [...]

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A Strategy Crisis ?

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Markets, Technology

In a thought provoking article at the Harvard Business Review site titled “Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis”, Umair Haque looks deeper into the impact that the Internet has had in leveling many playing fields.
Competitive advantage is fundamentally about making markets work less efficiently. One catastrophically effective way to do that is to hide and [...]

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