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[Posted on August 27, 2007 - 4:09 PM]
Viacom Inc., the parent of Comedy Central, has locked up another four years of the animated hit "South Park," according to The New York Times. Not only is Viacom reportedly paying co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker $75 million, but the media giant is also bending some of the hard and fast rules of the media business by giving Stone...

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[Posted on August 10, 2007 - 1:06 PM]
An absolute gem in a Wall Street Journal piece Thursday about the recent big losses at computer-driven hedge funds: "Our risk models failed to pick up the fact that we were due for a correction," said Keith Campbell, founder of Campbell & Co. "We were highly diversified. It was the perfect negative storm." The guy goes on to describe...

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[Posted on July 26, 2007 - 2:34 PM]
Scientists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands are endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions, Technology Review magazine reported on Thursday. The idea is that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, scientists should be able to create more natural human and computer interactions. And by bestowing intelligent agents with similar emotions, researchers...

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[Posted on July 26, 2007 - 12:12 PM]
A researcher at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has come up with a way to strip the allergenic proteins out of peanuts. Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna, a researcher at the university, has managed to create roasted whole peanuts that don't trigger symptoms in people with peanut allergies. Details are scant, but with peanut allergies getting tons of...

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[Posted on July 5, 2007 - 5:37 PM]
Following on its $6 billion purchase of online advertising firm aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp. this week did a different kind of deal: It bought a chunk of land in its home city of Redmond, Wash., from Nintendo of America Inc. According to The Seattle Times, Microsoft has a powerful appetite for real estate in Redmond these days, yet its...

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[Posted on June 28, 2007 - 4:55 PM]
As if all the glowing reviews of the new iPhone, which Apple Inc. promises will change the mobile phone market forever, weren't enough for Steve Jobs, he has been named one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time by BusinessWeek. It doesn't end there, because Forbes' has listed him as one of the 10 greatest rags-to-riches billionaires. Nonetheless, Jobs...

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[Posted on June 8, 2007 - 10:31 AM]
Nanosolar Inc., the Silicon Valley startup pioneering a way to make thin-film solar panels, has lost its chief scientist, Chris Eberspacher. Nanosolar is one of several thin-film solar companies using copper-indium-gallium-selenide, or CIGS, as the basic material for its products, rather than silicon. Solar startups working with CIGS, such as Nanosolar, Miasole Inc., Konarka Technologies Inc. and Heliovolt Inc., have...

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[Posted on June 1, 2007 - 4:33 PM]
For my money, Google Inc.’s famous pledge in its 2004 initial public offering registration filing that it would try to avoid doing “evil” set a benchmark for fuzzy, if arguably well-intentioned, statements of corporate ethics. Mssrs. Brin and Page were roundly ridiculed, at least in soulless financial circles, for their  promise “to make the world a better place”... in...

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[Posted on May 18, 2007 - 5:02 PM]
Since 12 of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms reached a settlement with New York state four years ago under Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to sever ties between their research and investment banking divisions, the research industry has been on the decline. Many companies, but especially those small and recently IPO'd ones that so often fall in the tech sector, have...

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[Posted on May 17, 2007 - 1:32 PM]
Does anyone find it mildly ironic that Silicon Valley's Tech Museum of Innovation has named Frank Quattrone as its new chairman? Me neither. Oh, sure, at first blush it might seem a tad rich for an institution whose stated mission is “to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing technologies” to hire an ex-banker once...

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