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More Weird Presidential Facts

Posted on March 02, 2011 by Debarshi Kanjilal

As Mr. Barack Obama got sworn in as the 44th US President we look at some of the weird Presidential facts that can evoke some sort of laughter and light feelings in the days to come.

Weird Presidential Facts

Posted on March 02, 2011 by Debarshi Kanjilal

As Mr. Barack Obama got sworn in as the 44th US President we look at some of the weird Presidential facts that can evoke some sort of laughter and light feelings in the days to come.

Tribute to Former President Corazon Aquino

Posted on August 05, 2009 by Ma Christina Castillo

The least that I can do is join my fellow bloggers as they pay tribute to our former President Corazon Aquino who passed away recently.
Declared Time Magazine Woman of the Year in 1986, she is fondly called “Tita Cory” by the Flipino people. Here are some of her quotes:
“Faith is not simply a [...]

Invest in Biodiesel

Posted on May 08, 2006 by leafworks

Biodiesel, a wave of recycling for the future, a new fuel that’s starting to get popular, that is based on recycling or using vegetable or food oil for fuel. Many at-home-labs and conversion projects will go and pick up used vegetable oil from fast food places like Mc Donalds for free, take it home, filter [...]

Alcatel-Lucent Merger Worries Other Telecoms

Posted on April 05, 2006 by Nancy

According to Yahoo News, “Nordic telecommunication giants Nokia and Ericsson will need to grow by acquisition to counter the long-term impact of a planned merger of Alcatel and Lucent on their business.”
French company Alcatel and US company Lucent are merging to become a giant company worth about $25 billion, which will make them the 2nd [...]

North Korea wants “no pants” for women

Posted on November 11, 2005 by leafworks

…North Korea’s communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine.
“Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the [...]

Entertainment buyout?

Posted on July 28, 2005 by brother9

The hot rumor today is that NBC Universal, owned by GE, is looking to buyout Dreamworks. This could be worth as much as $1 billion dollars. Dreamworks is not offering a comment, as often happens, and also issued a statement sayign the buyout is “not authorised.”
If it’s not authorised, there’s implications that the [...]

China’s currency gamble

Posted on July 21, 2005 by brother9

Today China dropped its policy of linking the Yuan to the dollar in a fixed exchange rate. For the past ten years the yuan traded at 8.277 to the dollar. As of today the value of the yuan trades at 8.11 yuan, which is still a state-set value but is moving towards a [...]

Betting on Gambling

Posted on June 02, 2005 by brother9

The World Poker Tour (or rather, the company that owns the WPT) IPO’d last August, and since then is trading at more than double the IPO. Not surprising.
But now there’s an overseas look into the IPO, and PartyGaming, the largest UK website for poker, is planning an IPO this month on the London Exchange [...]

Skype Nears 100 Million Downloads

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Preston Danforth

Skype recently announced it was launching two new premium services: SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail.
Forbes has the scoop:

Software maker Skype said Friday that it was launching two more premium services as the number of downloads of its popular program neared 100 million.
The company also said it was launching SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail, two premium services [...]

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