Archive for ‘April, 2009’

London, Apr 2 : Hollywood actor Robert Patrick is gearing up to reprise his role as the evil robot in ‘Terminator 5′.

Filed under: Biz Apparently folks like fighting the American Revolution over and over again. The latest list of the NPD Group ’s top 10 best selling PC games in US retail stores shows Empire: Total War atop the list for the third week in a row. The historical RTS game from The Creative Assembly and Sega is number one again for the week that ended on March 21 Little has changed compare to last …

Mark-to-Market and the Last Honest Man (Columbia Journalism Review)

datePosted on 04:59, April 2nd, 2009 by Kayekay

Jonathan Weil over at Bloomberg finds a great way to illustrate the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil policy being instituted by the accounting-standards board FASB to make banks look healthier.

Chavez: Obama ‘President of Empire’ (Fox News)

datePosted on 20:14, April 1st, 2009 by

Venezuelan president has little hope of better ties with U.S., hopes Obama is last president of Yankee empire

Google drops “don’t be evil” motto (ZDNet)

datePosted on 13:55, April 1st, 2009 by Kayekay

Google is reported to be searching for a new corporate motto to replace its famous “don’t be evil” because it has become an easy target for its critics. David Krane, a senior spokesperson for Google, told SVW: “I never liked it. I always felt that it would…

CEO Who Returned Funds Notes TARP’s Stigma (NPR)

datePosted on 12:26, April 1st, 2009 by Kayekay

New York-based Signature Bank has returned $120 million in federal TARP funds to the Treasury. President and CEO Joseph DePaolo says the TARP program is now perceived as helping “evil” banks, and he doesn’t want that stigma associated with his company.

A Kremlin academic has predicted that the global economic crisis will pave the way for Vladimir Putin to rule over a reconstituted Soviet empire stretching from central Europe to the Canadian border within four years.