For Sale: The Ultimate Status Symbol
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With the country in need of cash and rich people dying to show off their wealth, Mr. Stein proposes a unique solution: having the government sell titles of nobility.
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Is now the time to own a piece of the dominant search giant?
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Announcements abounded: one acquistion, a potential sale, and the first-quarter earning report.
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In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme. Want proof? Just look at the price tags.
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The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all &quot;user-centric&quot;. These cautions lie in a paradox: &quot;The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it.&quot; The italics are his.  Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress. \
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Auction company is apparently drawn to the classifieds model pioneered by community resource site.
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This category-killing concept is selling for half price!
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Buckle your wallet: A visit to the temptation that is Roger Vivier.
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It's a statement, and perhaps a bargain.
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For generations, wealthy investors could rely on Wall Street to come up with products and services geared to meet their financial needs. Average Americans weren&#146;t so lucky. To much of Main Street, the financial world has long been a bewildering place with an unintelligible language of symbols, slogans, and acronyms. This wasn&#146;t a problem years ago because employers generally paid ...
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Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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A sign that your stock's run is done.
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Blog: Advertisements on the popular classifieds site range from someone willing to trade a fistful of coveted White Stripes tickets for the even more coveted phone, to a serious Apple fan who wants to hire someone to wait in line for 60 hours.
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Pay attention and you might grab a reward.
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My favourite and most emblematic question  defining your
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China Mobile and Focus Media: Domestic titans selling at knock-down prices.
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The online auctioneer has a hot -- if not grilled -- item on its hands.