Hot Stocks
This article talks about hot stocks in the USA following the election of Barack Obama. The article indicated that while hospital stocks were on the rise, big health insurance companies’ stocks were falling. It predicted that this was in response to Obama’s healthcare reforms to come, which makes sense. Apparently gun stocks also have risen […]
The Red Balloon Challenge
The Red Balloon Challenge In 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense sponsored a competition titled “The Red Balloon Challenge,” to test the mettle of social media. Its objective was to use social media to identify the location of 10 red balloons that were fixed at different locations […]
Interesting take on Google’s way of staying the best search engine.
I’ve been seeing many advertisements, mostly from magazines, that say that Microsoft Bing is more useful than Google when it comes to searching what you truly need. For evidence, they have presented blind tests conducted on the street, telling people that they actually listened to the crowd, and it’s not some rant from the second […]
How did electronic dance music get so popular?
The dance scene emerged around the late 70s and made a few advances during the 80s, only to return underground. Because of its association with drugs and other reputation tarnishing incidents, it was difficult for dance music to gain momentum. In certain cities, one could get fined for having a DJ performing in their own […]
Cascades and Diablo III
It took Blizzard, a major player in the video game industry, 8 years to develop and release Diablo III, a sequel to one of the best games in PC history: Diablo II. Despite Diablo III’s smashing success (3 million copies sold within first 24 hours) and positive reviews from the critics, the majority of the […]
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