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May 12, 2008 Hot Trends

BlackBerry Partners Fund a coup for JLA and RBC

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:01:47 PDT
In a few hours, the BlackBerry Partners Fund will be launched. With all of the fanfare will come a breath of life into the lungs of the Canadian venture capital industry. Chatter regarding the new fund has been sloshing around for the past couple of weeks (none of it out of JLA’s team), but we wanted to let our Wellington Financial advisory council member, John Albright, announce his own news on his own timeline. Unfortunately, an embargoed news item provided to VentureBeat was released early

Sen. McCain the Supreme Court, and the Future Constitutionality of McCain-Feingold

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:07:48 PDT
David Nather, writing for CQ Weekly, observes: "When he promised last week that as president he'd nominate only strict constructionists to the Supreme Court, there was one subject John McCain didn't mention in his review of the court's trends: the campaign finance overhaul he pushed through Congress six years ago. That's probably just as well, because if the Arizona senator has the opportunity to pick people like Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.-- he mentioned

LSD is the Latest Trend in Lebanon

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:36:11 PDT
Acid wasn't really on anyone's radar in Beirut until quite recently. People in the scene say that it was sometime around the early Fall of 2007 that it began to be more accessible, after a select group of Beirut dealers began offering LSD on a regular basis.

Affiliate Programs - More Important Information That Could Help You Along The Way

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:38:56 PDT
Many newbies come into affiliate marketing and affiliate programs of all types can start out being very green and think they can make money fast and easy with only doing the basics and not actually committing themselves to a long term business model or plan. I believe the best way to take advantage within affiliate marketing is to create a blog farm that will provide significant traffic,that doesn’t mean spam blogs but blogs that are properly created and marketed to your target audience. Outso

2D barcodes and ViPR

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:43:32 PDT
One of the most interesting aspects of mobile devices is their ability to link the physical and the digital world. 2D barcoding has been extremely popular in Japan and Korea for the last few years and is starting at last to penetrate the more mobile challenged regions of the world such as the US. In the US, the uptake on 2D barcodes and other technologies linking the analogue and the digital world has been slower- largely due to lack of agreement among the five major carriers as to which tech

Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:45:00 PDT
At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations.

Gas prices, mass transit ridership up nationwide

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:53:36 PDT
Gas prices have been on the climb in America for years, but investment in mass transit has lagged far behind acceptable levels. Most major cities in the country have only nascent systems, and while new light rail and other mass transit networks are starting to spring up around America, it’s all been a bit too little way too late for a nation long dependent on cars. Now, though, with gas prices hitting record highs and showing no signs of ever coming back down, the people once behind their whe

News Corp yanks bid for Newsday - Stuff.co.nz


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News Corp yanks bid for Newsday
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 12 hours ago
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is withdrawing its bid for Tribune Co.'s Newsday newspaper, a News Corp spokeswoman said. Officials at Tribune, News Corp and The ...
News Corporation Withdraws Its Bid for Newsday New York Times
National and Washington news in brief San Jose Mercury News
Murdoch's News Corp. ends Newsday bid Los Angeles Times
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1400 GMT, May 11 - guardian.co.uk


Reuters World News Highlights at 1400 GMT, May 11
guardian.co.uk, UK - 15 hours ago
YANGON - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said ...
Reuters World News Highlights at 0200 GMT, May 11 guardian.co.uk
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