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Uber moves closer to being street legal
25 May 2012, 2:09 pm
You’ll recall early this year when this town was consumed by talk of Uber — the upscale app-dispatched car service — that was the subject of a sting operation by city taxi inspectors . Uber and its moment of government oppression became the stuff of national ruminations on innovation and regulation (and, more recently, urban decadence ). Read full article >>
Local newspapers' crisis: my hyperlocal site was fine, but it didn't pay
25 May 2012, 9:10 am
Today's extract from What do we mean by local? * is by Richard Jones , a freelance journalist who lectures at Leeds university. He spent six years at Sky News before becoming a stay-at-home father and setting up a hyperlocal website, Saddleworth News , in February 2010. His is a
salutary lesson to those who believe they can make a hyperlocal website work... I set up Saddleworth News for two main ...
BoE's Bailey: JPMorgan loss due to bad risk management
24 May 2012, 4:31 am
LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Trading lossses of $2 billion atJPMorgan were due to poor risk management and indicateno local rule breaches for the moment, Britain's top bankingsupervisor said on Thursday. ...
Touring the Damage in Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st
22 May 2012, 4:42 pm
In just two feature films, writer/director Joachim Trier has proved to be unparalleled in exposing the foibles and delusions of all the sad young literary men—or of one man in particular. The twentysomething character played by Anders Danielsen Lie in Reprise (2006) finds immediate c...
John Carlos: A salutary lesson in the power of sport
19 May 2012, 6:24 pm
Meet half of sport's most rousing double act. John Carlos and Tommie Smith were the 200-metre dashers behind the most iconic image of the umbilical link between the competitive arts and political reality: the "Black Power Salute" in Mexico City that seared through the 1968 Olympics like a 1,000-volt bolt, electro-shocking millions watching the first Games to be televised live.
Modulated depreciation is salutary
18 May 2012, 5:56 am
The dollar-rupee exchange rate has been the centre of attention in the recent period. Top policymakers have been advocating defence of the present exchange rate and they are opposed to any further depreciation.
How Rebekah Brooks understood you all the way to the front page | Janine Gibson
12 May 2012, 4:17 am
Brooks's Leveson inquiry appearance was a display of the empathetic arts she used to win round politicians and celebrities Anyone who ever fantasised about being famous got a
salutary look at what for the last 20 years has been the quid pro quo of British public life: what it's like to be turned over by a tabloid. Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the Sun and the News of the World, then chief ...
Calling on all her qualities, like them or not
11 May 2012, 7:20 pm
ANYONE WHO ever fantasised about being famous got a
salutary look at what for the last 20 years has been the quid pro quo of British public life: what it’s like to be turned over by a tabloid.
World - salutary
The sweet truth on sugar and your health - Examiner
22 May 2012, 4:15 pm
Sugar the yummy stuff that makes us go wild! When we are tired, we crave a
salutary, Twizzler or an all-sugar loaded equivalent; or how about on a hot summer day, you travel past a welcoming ice cream shop or the see the ice cream man at the beach ...
Rupee depreciation - Hindu Business Line
22 May 2012, 9:55 am
This is with reference to “Modulated depreciation is
salutary” (Business Line, May 18). The author is right in his view that political economy considerations would not allow appropriate exchange rate adjustment to take place. The downgrading ...
Utility customers penalised for paying in cash - Daily Telegraph
21 May 2012, 10:54 am
He said: “It's actually quite
salutary to just see how much you spend in a day or over a weekend. If your budget is tight using cash reminds you precisely where your money is going.” Christine McGourty, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at ...
Are Things Finally Looking Up For Yahoo? - Forbes
21 May 2012, 10:18 am
His departure seems to have triggered an even more overdue and
salutary development: a deal to unwind its 40% stake in China’s Alibaba Group. The complicated transaction will allow the internet giant to buy back billions of dollars worth of ...
The $2 Billion Lesson - Town Hall
18 May 2012, 5:03 pm
Anybody need still another argument for reviving the old Glass-Steagall Act (1933-99), with its
salutary separation between commercial and investment banking? If so, JPMorgan Chase has just provided one. A big one. The country's largest bank now ...
Facebook's flotation: The final countdown - Economist.com
16 May 2012, 1:02 pm
But that could alienate its users. A think-piece just published by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, is a
salutary reminder that concerns over privacy threaten to hold back the growth of an emerging online economy.
JPMorgan takes a salutary stumble - Financial Times
14 May 2012, 5:43 pm
JPMorgan Chase’s performance in the crisis gave it and Jamie Dimon, its boss, a claim to being better bankers than their rivals. The beaching of the “London whale”, a trader whose positions have been implicated in a $2bn loss reported by the bank ...
