The Time Suck of Social Media

Social media is a tremendous investment in time but so critical to most small businesses today. There’s no question you need social media for your marketing,branding and PR efforts. But what is the best way to get the most out of social media fo…[...]

Greece Update:ECB to make a contribution

From the WSJ:Concession Smooths Way Toward a Greek Debt Deal The European Central Bank has made key concessions over its holdings of Greek government bonds …The ECB has agreed to exchange the government bonds it purchased in the secondary market la…[...]

NY AG cancels statement on Mortgage Settlement

From MarketWatch:New York AG cancels bank settlement statementNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman late Tuesday postponed a much anticipated conference call with reporters that was set up to announce whether the state would participate in broad…[...]

Solve for X:Google’s Answer to All World Problems

Google believes that we can solve some of the world’s greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be more focused on global problems,using them as opportunities to encourage “moonshot” thinking. [...] [...]

Oracle introduces game-changing integration;Open Group sees a sea change in the market

Three things this week have individually and collectively really made me think I was seeing something both interesting and important. Two of them are down to Oracle and the third was at the Open Group meeting inSan Francisco. Let’s start with a press…[...]

NY Times:California might join mortgage settlement

From the NY Times:Deal Is Closer for a U.S. Plan on Mortgage ReliefWith a deadline looming on Monday for state officials to sign onto a landmark multibillion-dollar settlement to address foreclosure abuses,the Obama administration is close to winning…[...]

Greek talks end without agreement,will meet again on Monday

From the Athens News:Lengthy and difficult negotiations A five-hour meeting between prime minister Lucas Papademos and the leaders of the three parties supporting the government ended without agreement on Sunday. Pasok leader George Papandreou,main….. [...]

Recovery Measures

By request,here is an update to four key indicators used by the NBER for business cycle dating:GDP,Employment,Industrial production and real personal income less transfer payments. Note:The following graphs are all constructed as a percent of th….. [...]

Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning:Brady Searches Top Google,Yahoo

Tom Brady and Eli Manning will renew their rivalry today in Super Bowl 46. While Manning has the edge in their on-the-field matchups,leading 2-1 including a Super Bowl victory four years ago,people searched more for Brady on Google and Yahoo. [...] [...]

Greece:Key meeting on Sunday

From the Athens News:Crucial meeting of coalition partners The crucial negotiation of the coalition political party leaders over the EC-ECB-IMF troika’s ultimatums and shock measures has been set for 13:00 on Sunday. In this new meeting of the leade….. [...]