May 26, 2009

Apple building a $1 billion server farm

Sometimes governments and regional authorities will do almost anything to get a big name employer to set up on their patch. This is what the North Carolina government are considering in order to get Apple to move in.
The rules are simple, States can do virtually anything to get a larger company to move in, providing [...]

May 21, 2009

Google looking for answers

The current financial situation has seen many changes in the way that people and businesses are run, no longer is there the long term security of a job for life.
For businesses, it has been an exercise in cost cutting and trimming down. However, as a business attempts to save cash and create a [...]

May 15, 2009

The gold rush is back

There is rush on gold, it’s not that rich veins of the yellow metal are being found in peoples gardens, but it is the ordinary person in the street who appears to be cashing in the 21st century version of the gold rush.
Under normal circumstances, it is gold jewellery that people sell to make some [...]

May 11, 2009

YouTube to turn a profit with Googles help

Google have insisted that they will make YouTube into a profitable enterprise, although the CEO Eric Schmidt was careful enough to keep clear of saying exactly when and how this is likely to happen, although it was suggested that it would be losing hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
In fact, the current estimates [...]

May 6, 2009

Shop buys bad stock

It looks as if the term quality control went out of the window at supermarket chain Morrison’s when they ordered ABC building blocks intended to educate, stimulate and make learning fun, unfortunately some of the words appeared to have been lost in translation.
It is a classic mistake to make for example on brick with the [...]