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•The Surface Of Mars Is Too Dry For Life
by Alex Knapp
53 minutes ago
A new study confirms that Mars is an arid place that's far too dry for life to exist on the surface.
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Over 6,300 People Have Applied To Be Astronauts
by Alex Knapp
3 hours ago
NASA has a daunting task ahead of itself as it works to winno
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Cartier Is Looking For Women Entrepreneurs In Search Of Funding
by Russell Flannery
4 hours ago
Aspire to be Christy Walton, Cher Wang, Sheryl Sandberg or Margie Yang? Even if your current goals are more modest than to manage thousands of people or make the Forbes Billionaires List, you can apply for business funding through the Cartier Women's Initiative Award. The award is an entrepreneurship competition for women-led, for-profit businesses. Click ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Micron appoints Durcan CEO after Appleton's death
5 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Video: Marotta on Money
by David John Marotta
5 hours ago
explains that the purpose of Marotta On Money is a weekly financial column and daily financial blog about the comprehensive wealth management small changes that have a large effect over time. Subscribe to receive more Marotta more often.
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Smartphone Shipments Top PCs For The First Time Ever
by E.D. Kain
5 hours ago
2011 marked the beginning of a major shift toward mobile computing. Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures??published by research firm Canalys on Friday. Last year a total of 487.7 million smartphones were shipped. Only 414.6 million PCs, which include tablet PCs, shipped. That?s ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Clock ticks on Greece's bailout deadline
6 hours ago
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a critical task of convincing international lenders and political party leaders on Sunday to agree to the stringent terms of a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) rescue plan to stave off looming default.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Find Your Sweet Spot-and Stay There
by Peter Bregman
6 hours ago
A young woman I know is a star. In her early thirties, she had an M.B.A. and was already running a small division of a successful fashion company. She had that rare combination of design sense and business savvy that makes a virtuoso fashion executive. The owner of her company noticed. And when the company?s ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Euro zone loses patience with Greece
7 hours ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Eurogroup's Juncker warns of possible Greece default
8 hours ago
BERLIN (Reuters) - The possibility of a sovereign default by Greece cannot be ruled out, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the single currency zone, said in a German magazine on Saturday.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Star Wars Samurai Art
by E.D. Kain
8 hours ago
If Star Wars had been set in feudal Japan, this is what a Storm Trooper would look like: That?s from digital artist Clinton Felker. See more amazing images at BuzzFeed. Now I kind of wish they?d extend the Star Wars universe into a more Far Eastern setting? See also: Star Wars Isn?t a Religion It?s ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•A Bar Called Murphs - New Jersey Politics - Understated Income - Shocking Com...
by Peter J Reilly
9 hours ago
There are some cases I just cannot resist.??ANTHONY MURPHY, INC. t/a MURPHS LIQUOR & BAR and PETER MURPHY, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DIRECTOR, NEW JERSEY DIVISION OF TAXATION, Defendant-Respondent is one of them. Murphs Liquor & Bar in Totowa strikes me as the type of??place I spent too much time in??while young.?? Undoubtedly it is the ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Note to Newt: Many Food Stamp Families are Working
by Len Burman
9 hours ago
Newt Gingrich has accused President Obama of being a ?food stamp president.? Yesterday he broadened the attack to include Mitt Romney, after the ex-governor said that he would fix the safety net if people were falling through the cracks. (Ironically, Romney?s actual campaign proposals would shred the safety net.) About Obama, Gingrich??said, ?He will always ...
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Hack Attack Nation
by Erika Morphy
9 hours ago
Entrust's Tim Moses, director of Advance Security at Entrust, is not very reassuring on the subject: "Nearly everyone will be hacked eventually. The measure of a company is how they respond." Great.
[From Forbes.com: News]
•Hyundai MPG Claim Dropped From Super Bowl Ad
by Jim Gorzelany
9 hours ago
Last minute edits are prevalent in the advertising business - here's one important tidbit that was reportedly cut (as of Friday night) from one of Hyundai's ads running during Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast.
[From Forbes.com: News]
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