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  • Macworld Rumors (AAPL)
  • Macworld Rumors (AAPL)
  • Here what the rumors say we can expect to be announced from Apple (AAPL) during Macworld 2009: A new 17-inch, unibody MacBook Pro with an irremovable battery. A (Product) red iPhone. New versions of iLife and iWork, but in the cloud. An updated Mac Mini. New displays. A 28-inch...

  • Five Plans To Fix Digg -- Vote Here!
  • Five Plans To Fix Digg -- Vote Here!
  • START Over the first three quarters of 2008, Digg lost $2 million on revenues totaling $6.4 million. We think that's pathetic, but only because with 30 million monthly uniques and a raft of publishers surviving on its downstream traffic Digg shows us so much promise. So we at...

  • Tech's Big Week: Macworld, CES, And More
  • Tech's Big Week: Macworld, CES, And More
  • The first week of 2009 will be one of tech's busiest, including two trade shows, and investor conference, and an awards show. Stay tuned for complete coverage and analysis. On our agenda: Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, where Apple (AAPL) will present for the last time. CEO...

  • Renaissance fund cuts management fees: WSJ
  • Renaissance fund cuts management fees: WSJ
  • NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A hedge fund run by Renaissance Technologies has waived its management fees for 2009, according to a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal. The Renaissance Institutional Futures fund is waiving the 1% fixed management fee for 2009 after falling 12% in...

  • Is This A Rich People's Recession?
  • Is This A Rich People's Recession?
  • This year, we saw the first decline in online holiday sales since ComScore began monitoring them in 2001. The good news? We can blame the rich. Web metrics firm Hitwise says visits to luxury ecommerce sites from people with household incomes over $150,000 declined 12% this...

  • GMAC Gets $5 Billion in Government Aid
  • The Treasury Department injected $5 billion into GMAC, the automobile financing company, as part of a deal announced Monday night that will let GMAC convert itself into a bank holding company to reduce its borrowing costs and thus borrow money at low rates from the Federal...

  • Barack Obama, car guy
  • Barack Obama, car guy
  • One of the least explored personal sides to our new president is the amount of gasoline in his veins. We know all about his affection for the basketball court and his tendency every now and then to sneak out for a cigarette. But we've heard very little about what drove him to...

  • Israel Puts War Footage On YouTube
  • Israel Puts War Footage On YouTube
  • The Internet is Israel's newest front in its military offensive against Hamas -- and not in the same way as when Russian partisans took down Georgian websites during the summer war over South Ossetia. Israel has launched a YouTube channel to try to win support for its attacks. ...

  • Making the Best of Low Market Share
  • I’ve said before that I love a good graph joke, but I mostly do line graphs or the occasional bar graph. There’s a lot of opportunity to play visually with those. Pie graphs are harder because they’re always the same shape. You have your circle, the slices,...

  • How to make money in ETFs
  • How to make money in ETFs
  • At a financial-planner conference earlier this year, I spotted a session called "ETFs: Are Your Clients Investing Without You?" I had to go. We advisers are well aware of the advantages of exchange-traded funds: broad diversification, low costs and a slim tax bill.