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Wishful betting can contaminate financial markets, study shows

Wishful bettors, those who make overly optimistic investments, will ultimately harm themselves financially, but they can harm entire markets as well, new research shows.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

America's clean energy policies need a reality check

America's approach to clean energy needs to be reformed if it is to meaningfully affect energy security or the environment, according to two new articles by Stanford writers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 89 | with audio podcast

Facebook billionaire shuns luxury for startup life

(AP) -- Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean.

Technology / Business

created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Microsoft, Nokia put all on the line for Lumia phone launch

Not long ago, it wouldn't be unusual to walk into an AT&T store looking for a Windows Phone and not be able to easily locate one - much less find a sales rep who could talk about it knowledgably and enthusiastically.

Technology / Business

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music

(AP) -- Young people want their music, TV and movies now - even if it means they get these things illegally.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Consumers in the middle of battle over Internet privacy

Google and Facebook might have finally gotten the average consumer riled up about privacy.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The trouble with the media Cloud: If we can have everything, does it mean anything?

Why did they call it "The Cloud"? Couldn't they have chosen a better metaphor? Clouds burst. Clouds darken. Clouds disappear.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital studios mature by adopting 'old media' ways

Nine studio executives sat in a glass-enclosed conference room in Beverly Hills, Calif., discussing potential snowy locales for filming later this year.

Technology / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Combined interventions ease job re-entry for cancer survivors

For cancer survivors who wish to return to work after treatment, a new evidence review suggests that therapies focusing on a wide range of health interventions might best enable them to do so.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Android, iPhone competitors wage weak battle

In the smart phone business, the conventional wisdom is that everyone is battling for third place behind Google and Apple.

Technology / Business

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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