The Sneaker Market vs The Stock Market?

What motivates you?

Got Square?

Boys and Girls Square is finally up!!! For those of you who know about Square this is the time to make some money or spent some money!!! And for those who have no idea what Square is about, please check out video below.

High speed stacking pancake?

ABB + RG Luma = Honeytop

The result?

Accelerate production!
Improving hygienic!
and produce 400 pancakes per minute sorting!

Human are DOOM!

Who will prevail Mickey Mouse vs. Wolverine?

Mickey Mouse is now Mouserine, Micyclops, and Iron Mouse thanks to Disney recent $4 Billons Dollar offer to Mr. Stan Lee for Marvel! Read More


Mouserine by Khary Randolph



Micyclops by Raheight


Iron Mouse by RadioMaestra

Amazon Secret?

CEO/Founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos

Very short and very precise list from CEO/Founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos. Anyone who's in business or thinking about starting his/her business, should watch this video.

How many CEO Twittin?

More than you can follow!  Below is just a few from BusinessWeek lists of CEO Twittering.  You can follow and see who they follows, who following them, and what they are twittin about. 

CEO Twitter:

Kevin Rose 

Tony Hsieh

Jason Calacanis

Michael Arrington 

Loic Lemeur

Tim O'Reilly

Jack Dorsey

David Sifry

Christine Perkett

Michael Hyatt

Jeff Bonforte

Mike Troiano

Jonathan Schwartz

Shafqat Islam

Barry Libert

Eugene Lee

Kel Kelly

Lois Paul

Oh! Twitter fans don't forget about Astronaut Michael Massimino who will be twittin from space about The Hubble Mission!

How Walmart spread in the US?

Using Data Source + Flowing Data Code, Nathan Yau
was able to compose the growth of Wal-mart from 1962 to 2007.
It took Nathan about 3 months to code this dataset. Mr.Yau can't wait til
we see more of your works such as:

1. social data visualization
2. self-surveillance
3. data sharing
   

14 year old CEO?

Anshul Samar 14 year old CEO Alchemist Empire, Inc.

"I have always wanted to show the world that the youth can start a business and have fun at the same time," says Samar.



The game is based on a 121-card deck of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts. Every card has an explanation of the element or compound's uses and chemical properties. For example, the Oxygen card can rust neighboring metal cards and the Copper Conductor card can shock any metals. The oxidation state of an element is used as its attack power, and its physical state determines its movement on the board. The goal of the game is to reduce the opponents electrons to zero through strategic use of each card's chemical properties





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Who got Hijacked?

The Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star Hijacked

• 2 British, 2 Polish, 1 Croatian, 1 Saudi and 19 Filipino nationals Hijacked by Somali pirates!
• pirates have increased their demands. “They know the going rate.”
• payments can range from $500,000 to $2 million.
• The pirates, often armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, travel in speedboats equipped with satellite phones and GPS equipment.

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Why Japan worried about getting FAT?

• Japan produces only about 40% of the food they consumes.
• Now eat more meat, fat, and oil.
• As a result more health issue.
• 80% of Japan are mountains.
• How will Japan and the world deal with food in the future?
  

What will be the solutions for all human?

What's the 30 fastest growing occupations?

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projections:

30. Physician assistants

29. Physical therapists

28. Manicurists and pedicurists

27. Environmental science and protection technicians

26. Gaming and sports book writers and runners

25. Computer software and systems software engineers

24. Database administrators

23. Computer systems analysts

22. Dental assistants

21. Marriage and family therapists

20. Mental health and substance abuse social workers

19. Mental health counselors

18. Dental hygienists

17. Forensic science technicians

16. Pharmacy technicians

15. Physical therapist assistants

14. Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators

13. Social and human service assistants

12. Financial analysts

11. Skin care specialists

10. Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors

9. Veterinarians

8. Medical assistants

7. Theatrical and performance makeup artists

6. Personal financial advisers

5. Veterinary technologists and technicians

4. Computer applications software engineers

3. Home health aides

2. Personal and home care aides

1. Network systems and data communications analyst

Who owns America?

Design by GOOD

Should you or do you care?

about 28% or $2.6 trillion is held by foreign governments!

Top 5 foreign holders of treasury securities from largest to smallest:

1. Japan
2. China
3. The United Kingdom
4. Oil Exporters*
5. Brazil

*Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Gaben, Libya, and Nigeria

43% of American spend more than they earn.

Average American has $8,565 in credit-card debt 15% higher than 2000.

In 2000 the median American family made about $61,000.

In 2007 ....................................................................... $60,500!

What does the world richest man think about CASH?

"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."

Why Walmart need 460 terabytes of storage?

Walmart Data Bentonville, Arkansas.

“Behind a fence topped with razor wire just off U.S. Highway 71 is a bunker of a building that Wal-Mart considers so secret that it won't even let the county assessor inside without a nondisclosure agreement,”

Wal-Mart had enough storage capacity to contain twice the amount of all the data available on the Internet; or, roughly 460 terabytes of information.

“With 3,6000 stores in the United States and roughly 100 million customers walking through the doors each week, Wal-Mart has access to information about a broad slice of America - from individual Social Security and driver's license numbers to geographic proclivities for Mallomars, or lipsticks, or jugs of antifreeze.”

Why Walmart need to Data mining?

"We didn't know in the past that strawberry Pop-Tarts increase in sales, like seven times their normal sales rate, ahead of a hurricane,"

"And the pre-hurricane top-selling item was beer."

Such knowledge, Wal-Mart has learned, is not only power. It is profit, too.

Over the years, she said, Wal-Mart executives have spent handsomely for their systems, paying $4 billion in 1991 to create Retail Link and signing onto innovations like bar codes and electronic data interchange, a forerunner of the Internet, well ahead of the pack.

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Which Companies Rank #1 in 2008?

Top 5 Brand and Value:

5. Nokia: 2008 Brand Value (Millions): $35,942

4. GE : 2008 Brand Value (Millions): $53,086

3. Microsoft: 2008 Brand Value (Millions): $59,007

2. IBM: 2008 Brand Value (Millions): $59,031

1. Coca-Cola: 2008 Brand Value (Millions): $66,667



More detail.

Why you should “Beware of geeks bearing formulas”?

Warren Buffett
Photo by: Baker / Redux

Warren Buffett committing a total of $8 billion to Goldman Sachs and General Electric.

Mr. Buffett is also the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo, which last Friday swept in with a $15 billion bid for another banking company, Wachovia, offering seven times what Citigroup did at the start of the week.


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Why your gas cost so much?

Design by: Good

Taxes : 12%
Distribution & Marketing: 7%
Refining: 9%
Crude Oil: 72%

How much does oil companies make per second?

How much does The Netherlands pay per gallon?

How much does The United States pay per gallon?

How much does Venezuela pay per gallon?

Why Qwaq?

Is a breakthrough technology also enables persistence combined with the ability for users to be in the same virtual space while working on related but different applications or content. This mirrors the physical world, where people might work together but on their own specific work. This capability has not been available with traditional collaboration tools. For example, web conferencing has meant one person communicating their slides or desktop to others, with limited to no interactivity.

• Program Management
• Facilitated Meetings
• Corporate Training
• Virtual Office

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"China has a unique problem -- it has too much cash,"?

Here is a few things they are doing with the cash for Africa:

• China's growing aid programme to Ghana includes the 600 million dollar Bui Dam on the Black Volta River.
• In October 2007, Beijing’s Tianpu Xianxing Enterprises and Kenya's Electrogen Technologies started building the first solar panel factory in Eastern Africa, in a 125 million dollar joint venture.
• Some 200,000-350,000 photovoltaic systems are in use, demonstrating that solar power is viable even for poor households in an unsubsidized market.

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