This might look like a strange microscopic image, or even an aerial view of a sprawling city late at night—but in fact it's what a 600-billion-billion-kilometre-wide section of the universe looks like.
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When you're a company as big as Apple, saving on tax bills is important—especially when they're in the billions. Fortunately its team of accountants has just managed to save it a cool $9.2 billion.
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The idea of mining nearby asteroids for resources we could use on Earth is fast becoming a possibility—and the asteroid set to buzz Earth on on February 15th could be worth up to $195 billion. If we could catch it. More »
Acquisitions helps company's strategy of solving customers' networking and business enablement challenges by delivering cloud networking and device and security services.
Microsoft shines the spotlight on the new SharePoint, with product enhancements and big bets on social, cloud and mobile as well as a price reduction for Yammer enterprise services.
Analysts are estimating that $4.2 billion has been spent*wasted on this political race for the White House and Congress. When it's all added up though, that number could rise to $6 billion--a record-breaking amount for any election in history. Here's an idea: How about instead of throwing...
Yeah, Facebook is huge. Unlike other failures in the social media world (like MySpace), Facebook just continues to grow. Two years ago, they had 500 million active users. Today, Facebook now has one billion active users.
In other words, one in every seven people on the planet use Facebook...
If you side with*"hungry" high schoolers*and uninformed lawmakers*who care about business more than the health of our kids,*you may think that new regulations on school lunches, which are designed to to cut down on junk food, are just too nanny state-ish. But it's not just Michelle Obama who's...
On first glance, it's easy to get upset with new research that shows food stamps subsidize $2.1 billion worth of sugary drink purchases–mainly soda–per year. And indeed, it's fairly depressing that such a large amount of taxpayer money goes towards something that, as the researchers put it...
Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell's enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from competitors by increasing its solutions...
As lawmakers are scrounging to figure out how to nip and tuck local and state government budgets to save some cash, they may want to stop looking under the couch cushions and check out in the garage. According to a joint report from the Sierra Club, the*National Council of La Raza, and...
Things have been going wrong at Sony for a long old time. But if you need hard evidence of its downward trajectory, how about this: it just reported a record annual loss, of $5.7 billion. Ouch. More »
There's no question that American obesity rates are soaring—and it definitely comes at a cost to our health and well being—but new stats from the*Campaign to End Obesity*peg its annual drain on the U.S. economy at $190 billion. Considering that the goal of anti-obesity campaigners is to shock...
...re-introduced to Steve Gadd`s pla? ying via John Henry Bonham`s drumming on How Many More Times,Led Zeppelin1. Gadd was a big fan of Bonham`s style.Can any one tell what Gadd`s been up too as of late?
Do you believe in Magic? For an astounding $2.15 billion dollars, a sum decided Tuesday night, Frank McCourt believes. That's how much the Los Angeles Dodgers will cost Magic Johnson's group, the Wall Street Journal reports. Johnson's consortium beat out two others — one that included St. Louis...
Women pay more for health insurance than men, because of a practice called "gender rating" that lets insurers charge women more for coverage. A new report from the National Women's Law Center found*even women in good health often get charged more than male counterparts. Collectively...
Copyright math might not be something you've lent much thought to before, but in this talk Rob Reid—founder of Rhapsody—tries to explain the silly numbers that are used to justify SOPA and PIPA. He's very funny, and his talk is very interesting. Turns out your iPod might be worth more than you...