Share A very rare baseball card for Stephen Strasburg has been placed on auction. The bidding opens at $9,000, and will last for 2 weeks. The card has previously been attempted to auction on eBay, but the auction was canceled when sky high bids of $900,000 could not be checked and verified. The auction will [...]
Share According to the estimates of the US Travel Association the BP oil disaster could have caused up to 400,00 jobs to be lost in the travel industry. This is a result of the unprecedented damage to the natural beauty of the region effected and the resulting dramatic drop in visitors. “Travel is a perception [...]
Share President Obama is signing an overhaul of the financial regulations in the USa, and plans then to turn his attentions to reform of the US housing market – the area where the entire financial crisis all began. Obama wants to move away from an emphasis on home ownership in the USA, as this was [...]
Share Yahoo and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a worldwide strategic alliance to extend the reach of their industry leading online services and offer people rich experiences that keep them connected to their world and the world around them. Building on more than five years of collaboration, Nokia and Yahoo! (R) will leverage each others’ strengths [...]
Share Following months of negotiation, Disney (DIS) has finally ridded itself of the albatross around its neck in the form of Miramax. If all albatrosses could prove to be as supportive as Miramax. Its stable of successes include Pulp Fiction (1994), Good Will Hunting (1997), and Chicago (2002). Reports indicate that Disney opted to put [...]
Share Flu manufacturers have begun shipping the 2010/2011 flu vaccine shots and sprays to the US. 155 million doses of the vaccine are expected necessary this winter, the largest number ever. Drug giant Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) and other vaccine manufaturers will manufacture and ship a total of 155 millin doses. Sanofi Pasteur will ship the [...]
Share The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released some revised guidelines on vaginal birth after cesarean. “Attempting a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is a safe and appropriate choice for most women who have had a prior cesarean delivery, including for some women who have had two previous cesareans,” the report says. [...]
Share Thought bicycle dynamos were a thing of the past? Not so. Nokia have just released a dynamo aimed at charging your mobile phones. Nokia says that at around 4mph, and up to 31mph, the dynamo (by using the revolution of the bike wheels) will produce enough power on a ten minute journey for around [...]
Share Why take an hour ride to the Mall? Why spend a full day walking around the mall in presence of tedious crowds? Why waste hours upon hours trying to find the best deal for some overpriced pair of shoes in a few little shops? Why should you do any of that again when you [...]
Share A month after medicines made in a Johnson & Johnson plant (now closed due to manufacturing problems) were withdrawn from the shelves, four more children’s medicines have now also been recalled. PediaCare cough and cold medicines that are made at the Johnson’s plant in Fort Washington, Pa have been recalled for ‘precautionary’ reasons by [...]
