20 years ago, the World Wide Web was born
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Elise Ackerman
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. Tim Berners-Lee, now famous as the founder of the World Wide Web, was working as an obscure consultant at Cern, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in the suburbs ...
Investing in debt might beat stocks
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Jonathan B. Cox
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Mark Yusko is an experienced hand at managing big money. He used to oversee the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's endowment. Now his own firm, Morgan Creek Capital in Chapel Hill, has $10 billion under management.
It's a thriving _ and expanding _ business ...
Need a good job? Become a police officer
McClatchy Newspapers
12/30/2008, by Ina Paiva Cordle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Whether the economy is in high gear or a slow meltdown, the need for law-enforcement officers is always strong _ making it a hot job for the coming year and beyond. Various agencies, from the Florida Highway Patrol to those representing South Florida's cities and ...
Wizard in world of search
McClatchy Newspapers
12/17/2008, by Benjamin J. Romano
The Seattle Times (MCT) - If Microsoft has to climb over or through Yahoo to get to Google in the Internet search business, there are few people better positioned than Qi Lu to lead the way. Named this month as president of Microsoft's Online Services Group, Lu brings with him practically the ...
Middle school students try investing in a turbulent market
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Joe Crawford
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Seventh-grader Tristan Papes has been keeping an eye on the recent turbulence in the stock market. So has professional money manager Chris Lissner.
Lissner, president of Acropolis Investment Management, has studied the market for more than 30 years. Papes, who ...
Web video developing into cable alternative
McClatchy Newspapers
11/26/2008, by Troy Wolverton
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - For consumers fed up with their cable companies, a new alternative is emerging. Call it Cable 2.0: You get many of the same TV shows and movies, often with fewer commercials. Better yet, you get to watch what you want on your schedule, not the cable network's, and you ...
Fear in money market sector easing after intervention
McClatchy Newspapers
11/10/2008, by Harriet Johnson Brackey
Sun Sentinel (MCT) - Memo to Joe the Plumber: There's work to be done on Wall Street. The plumbing of the financial system, the day-to-day trading in short-term credit markets, doesn't work well. That has the money market mutual fund industry on edge.
These funds, perceived as substitutes for cash ...
After 35 years of expansion, Shrinky Dinks brand is for sale
McClatchy Newspapers
11/6/2008, by Doris Hajewski
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - In 35 years, a business based on shrinking has expanded to include about 250 products sold in 42 countries around the world. Now Betty Morris, one of the inventors of Shrinky Dinks, is hoping that the value she created with her plastic crafts company, K&B ...
College savings, strategies key as credit crunch hits loan market
McClatchy Newspapers
10/6/2008, by Andrea Coombes
MarketWatch (MCT) - With the credit crunch crimping the student loan market and financial market upheaval crunching investments in college savings plans, what's a parent to do? That depends somewhat on when your child will need those college funds. If you've got a long time horizon, some say ...
Profit, progress in sight for car sharing rivals
McClatchy Newspapers
10/3/2008, by Shawn Langlois
MarketWatch (MCT) - A battle between big business, a possible IPO candidate and numerous nonprofits is brewing in the world of car sharing, and a potential windfall awaits those who can tap into what some see as a multibillion-dollar industry. Or not. With profits proving scarce up to this point, ...
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