The Benefits Associated with Gold Recycling One of the big benefits to visiting a gold recycling centre is that you will be able to get paid for gold items which you rarely or never use. Rather than have these items sit in your drawers, why not sell them and get paid for something which you [Read More]
Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind women on board increase business What will it take for men to get it? In the last five years, women and minorities actually lost ground in U.S. corporate boardroom representation, despite solid evidence that greater women’s representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved [Read More]
Many Women Would Trade 1 Year of Life to Be Thin Almost one-third of young women would trade at least a year of their lives to have a perfect body, according to a new survey of British undergraduates. The survey found that 16 percent of young women queried said they’d trade a year of life [Read More]
Kidney Cancer on the Rise in United States If kidney cancer is present, whether the patient knows it or not. New cases of kidney cancer have increased by about 3.6 percent each year. Since 1975, the number of people developing kidney has increased steadily in the United States. Since 1991, this increase has been greatest [Read More]
Steady Improvements Seen for Young Blood Cancer Patients blood-related cancers So know about blood cancer. American teens and young adults newly diagnosed with blood-related cancers now live longer than they did in the 1980s, new research has found. Researchers analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database, a [Read More]
Popular Blood Pressure Drugs Tied to Slight Rise in Cancer Risk ARBs can play a real role in cancer growth remains unclear. So know blood cancer– Use of a popular class of drugs for high blood pressure and heart failure is associated with a slight boost in cancer risk, a new review of data finds. [Read More]
SBA Launches Program for Commercial Real Estate Refinancing: Arlington Richfield Arlington Richfield has become one of the fastest growing and respected private capital firms in the country with over One Billion annually in processed commercial financing transactions; they listen and are there to help. You can contact Arlington Richfield at [Read More]
Six new hotels to open in Budapest in 2011 Six new three-star, four-star and five-star hotels are due to be inaugurated with 400 rooms in Budapest this year, real estate consultant Colliers International told MTI on Wednesday. Eight new four-star hotels with 1,000 rooms were opened in Budapest last year. Outside Budapest Colliers expects hotels [Read More]
Real estate sales strong in Hainan (Real Estate) Property sales and prices in Hainan, China’s first international tourism island, rebounded during the city’s tourist high season, with investors increasingly looking for opportunities in the commercial sector. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the price of properties in [Read More]
comScore: Facebook Keeps Gobbling People’s Time (Source: TechCrunch) With 600 million users, it’s no secret Facebook is dominating social networking. And recent comScore data only reinforces the social network’s staggering growth. For example, Facebook accounted for 10 percent of U.S. page views in 2010, while three out of every ten Internet [Read More]
comScore: Android Passes iOS For Overall US Smartphone Subscribers (Source: TechCrunch) comScore’s monthly smartphone data is in and it looks like for the first time Android OS has surpassed Apple’s iOS in terms of U.S. smartphone subscribers share. The data, which measured smartphone usage from September until December of 2010, showed that [Read More]
Health insurance Uninsured drive up hospital costs Health insurance: The number of uninsured hospital admissions in Hamilton County more than doubled between 2004 and 2008, leaving local hospitals with barely three in 10 patients who have private insurance to pay for their care, according to a new report on health in the Chattanooga region. [Read More]
Tango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million Downloads (Source: TechCrunch) One of the best built-in features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video calling feature that lets you see who you are talking to by using the cameras on both phones. But it only works over WiFi and if both [Read More]
Discovering The Distance-to-Discount Ratio (Source: TechCrunch) When it comes to deals, the bigger the discount, the further people will travel. While this may sound obvious, mobile advertising company JiWire has some numbers to back it up. JiWire is releasing a new study today that evaluates consumers; behavior when it comes to location-based [Read More]
CalPERS Sheds Big-Name Advisors After Losing $10 Billion+ in Last Two Years Big investment strategy changes coming at CalPERS this year. The $228 billion (CalPERS)California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the U.S., lost more than $10 billion in its overall real estate program in the last two years. [Read More]
Health Insurance Quotes Reform Obamacare & Buying Individual Health Insurance Individual Health Insurance JANUARY 29, 2010 This Week in Health Care Reform Following the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusetts State Senate last week and the resulting loss of Senate Democrats’ supermajority, lawmakers continue to pave [Read More]
Online Retail Spending Reaches A Record $43.4B In Q4 2010- Up 11 Percent (Source: TechCrunch) Online spending in the fourth quarter of 2010 reached record levels, according to comScore’s latest data on retail e-commerce. After a stronger than expected holiday shopping season, online retail spending in Q4 reached a record $43.4 billion, which is [Read More]
For InMobi, Apple And Android Are Eating Up Global Mobile Ad Share (Source: TechCrunch) InMobi is the world’s largest independent mobile ad network with operations in Bangalore, Mumbai, London, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo Global mobile ad network InMobi is making a big push to gain smartphone ad share. Back in June, it announced a [Read More]
Carrefour climbs on report may spin off. (Reuters) – Carrefour (CARR.PA), the world’s second-largest retailer, is considering listing stakes in its real estate and Dia discount businesses in a bid to boost its valuation, Le Figaro reported on Monday. Shares in the French group climbed as much as 3.3 percent in early trading after the [Read More]
Health Insurance Rate Expectations for 2011 Health insurance companies are seeing a trend in decreased utilization, which could mean lower rate increases in 2011. But perception is often different among different groups. For example, the National Business Group on Health in Washington, which represents large companies, reported last month that [Read More]
Henrico real estate value declines The assessed value of real estate in Henrico County has declined by 1.13 percent, representing a loss of $361.2 million from last year. Combined with last year’s drop of 7.8 percent in value,real estate in Henrico has depreciated nearly 9 percent in just two years, resulting in significant tax-revenue [Read More]
LinkedIn’s Largest Shareholders And How Much They Own (Source: TechCrunch) LinkedIn’s S-1 filing was released today, and the filing includes a wealth of information that we’ve never seen before. This includes sales, profit, revenue breakdown and more. One interesting data point shared in the filing is LinkedIn’s largest shareholders and [Read More]
China Approves Property Tax Trials in Two Cities to Curb Prices China approved property tax trials on some housing in Shanghai and Chongqing, adding to measures announced earlier this week in its campaign to curb real-estate speculation and asset bubbles. Shanghai will begin trials today, the city said in a statement on its website yesterday. [Read More]
AT&T Earnings: 442,000 Tablet And 4p1 Million iPhone Activations In Q4 2010 (Source: TechCrunch) Telecommunications company AT&T has announced its quarterly results, reporting consolidated revenues of $31p4 billion, up 2p1 percent or $653 million from the fourth quarter of 2009. Here are some of the things that caught my eye: AT&T [Read More]
If Search Engines Played Jeopardy, Which One Would Win? (Source: TechCrunch) The recent victory of IBM’s Watson computer against human competitors in an exhibition round of Jeopardy got computer scientist Stephen Wolfram thinking about how regular search engines might fare in such a match-up. So he took 200,000 known Jeapardy clues and ran them [Read More]
5 Great Money Ideas (stocks)for 2011 What’s one of the country’s top New Year’s resolutions? “Get my personal finances on track.” It competes with “Lose five pounds” and way outdoes “Spend more time with family and friends.” If you get control of your money, you might even find it easier to [Read More]
