Technology & Innovation

Within the span of a week, three polls concerning the special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy have put the contestants at wildly different standings. It has allowed political […]

Year-end bonuses will soon be paid out to Wall Street executives which threatens to ignite a new round of public fury.

Xinhua reports that Chinese exports rose nearly twenty percent in December making it the world’s largest exporter.

Sir Richard Branson and his company have been allowed to buy a small bank and may make a bid to buy Northern Rock.

The network and its executives are in disarray after the questionable line of decisions that took Jay Leno to prime time.

Hopes of an early economic recovery on Main Street were dashed after 85,000 jobs were reportedly lost during December.

Unemployment is a peculiar feature of the division of labor. In a society where people are able to completely provide for themselves by hunting or growing their own food, barring […]

It’s been a year since I last redesigned my personal blog. This time around, I’ve been thinking of making more substantial changes — possibly even getting a new blog host. […]

Japan’s new finance minister Naoto Kan has said it would be “nice” to see a weaker yen in order to aid the recovery of the Japanese economy, during a press conference.

Two recent news stories have begged the question of privacy: body scan technology that might have found explosives tucked into a Nigerian man’s underpants on Christmas Day and Facebook’s new […]

Pending sales of previously owned US homes tumbled 16 per cent during November – a much higher number than predicted because of the end rush to beat tax credits.

For this week’s installment of What Went Wrong?, we bring you the media perspective from Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times columnist and author of “Too Big To Fail,” and […]

While there was a short-lived fear that fans of the Simpsons and American Idol might lose their TV shows at the turn of the decade, the recent deal cut between […]

Blogger Steven Frischling, suspected of leaking a TSA document, has had his Twitter account implicated in a bizarre fracas with a TSA agent who allegedly posed as Frischling online.

The tallest building in the world, Dubai’s new Khalifa Tower, is “a frightening purposeless monument to the subprime era” writes The Telegraph’s Stephen Bayley.

If sports clichés have taught us anything, it’s that any good sports team requires certain players that provide key elements to the overall collective. The debonair leader, the pugnacious underdog, […]

Writing in the New York Times, Bono makes his case for anti-piracy legislation. For the first time in the Financial Times’ history, online and print subscribers now contribute more revenue […]

Malaysians are flocking to the internet to debate a contentious court ruling allowing local Roman Catholics to use the word Allah as a translation for God.

Economic indicators suggest the U.S. could likely see a return to job growth sometime this year.

Banks will charge their customers higher fees to recuperate expected losses from new federal banking regulations.

New French law will give illegal downloaders two chances to stop pirating before they are called before a judge.

The $75 billion program to lessen high mortgage payments is a band aid that is keeping real estate prices artificially high.

Fox and Time Warner have reached an agreement to keep Fox on the air after it demanded direct payment from the cable provider to air its content.

Can Wall Street hold it together in 2010 after having its best year since 2003? Six reputed economists opine.

Fox and Time Warner reached a temporary agreement that will keep Fox on the air, for now…

The Obama Administration’s move on Christmas Eve to extend the borrowing power of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has gone largely unnoticed in the holiday aftermath as concerns about recent […]

Speculators are inflating the price of real estate in China while mortgages are taken in record numbers presaging a bubble burst.

Fox will pull its programming from Time Warner Cable by midnight tonight unless it receives direct payment to broadcast its content.

The Obama Administration gave Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a big Christmas present last week. By issuing an executive order removing the 400 billion dollar bailout caps through 2012, the […]

As the year draws to a close, I want to finish by passing along my personal list of the most interesting essays on political issues from 2009. My selections are […]