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Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say

(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 212

Study reveals who profits and who incur losses from provision of immediacy in the stock market

While mutual funds and issue of stocks cause price impact, hedge funds and repurchase of shares decrease this. The doctoral dissertation by Kalle Rinne, M. Sc. (Econ.), studies how demand and provision of immediacy affects ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO (Update 4)

(AP) -- Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Scientists use 'crowd funding' to secure research funds

When Tara Crawford saw a fishing net wrapped around a young California sea lion’s neck, cutting into its flesh and causing an infection, it reinforced her motivation to help these animals through her ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

California leads green tech funding, reduces greenhouse emissions

California has had remarkable success in developing and deploying clean technology, using it to help fuel the state's economic rebound and drive its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even as its population continues ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders

(AP) -- Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four ...

Technology / Business

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Want a piece of Facebook? Get in line

Facebook may be the year's hottest stock issue -- but try getting a piece of it. Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Source: Yahoo CEO says he didn't mislead company

(AP) -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is assuring his colleagues that he didn't supply the incorrect information that led the troubled Internet company to list a bogus college degree in his official biography, according to a ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Funding for nonhuman primate research questioned

A major review of nonhuman primate use in medical research has been conducted in the UK by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, who is the president of the Zoological Society of London and an ethnologist from Cambridge University, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

California, US to bank millions in taxes on Facebook IPO

California has a friend who's about to write a hefty personal check that could help ease the state budget crunch.

Technology / Business

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hedge funds more like guardian angels than vultures: research

(Phys.org) -- New University of British Columbia research shows that – contrary to popular opinion – hedge funds have a positive influence when investing in U.S. companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Yahoo CEO apologizes for bogus college degree

(AP) -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is sorry for allowing an inaccuracy about his education to appear in his official bio, but not remorseful enough to heed calls for him to resign.

Technology / Business

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Mathematically detecting bubbles before they burst

From the dotcom bust in the late nineties to the housing crash in the run-up to the 2008 crisis, financial bubbles have been a topic of major concern. Identifying bubbles is important in order to prevent collapses that can ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3 weblog

Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth

There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 12

Funding

Funding or financing is to provide capital (funds), which means money for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions.

Those funds can be allocated for either short term or long term purposes. The health fund is a new way of funding private healthcare centers.

For more information about Funding, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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