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I agree with Colin: Apple has nothing to fear from Microsoft’s new ad campaign: Is that lame or what? {{Retrieved from geoffarnold.com via RSS/ATOM.}} Apple has nothing to fear

Latest on Penang mega projects This is the latest status of all the mega projects in Penang. These remarks are based on the Prime Minister’s reply to a question raised by the Penang Chief Minister in Parliament on 20 August 2008. What the first three projects have in common is that the financial models were all messed up.

First Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad in: Crazy Stuff, Great Videos, Internet, business, humor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno An unlikely duo Remember how the Seinfeld show was a “Show about nothing”? Then at one point they even made fun of that fact on the show, by making a fake show within the show about…nothing.

Reuters - The U.S. government plans to put government sponsored mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under federal control, the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers reported late Friday, in what could be the largest financial bailout in the nation’s history.

Thousands of elderly people are having their life savings, possessions and homes stolen by family members, a charity says.

For anyone who appreciates a certain scene in the movie American Psycho, I give you metal business cards by Etchstar. They recently lasered up a batch for me for the upcoming Techcrunch50 event. Ask me for one if you see me there!

200 new buses for Penang, but… Some RM100 million has been allocated for 200 new buses for Rapid Penang, which already has 150 buses. The additional buses will slash the average waiting time from 25 minutes to 10 minutes and enable Rapid Penang to add 14 new routes to its existing 33.

Guess where I went for vacation (clue in the chart). This long, narrow country is divided into 15 regions.  In the chart below, an uneven parade of 13 bubbles was used to present some sort of economic projections.  The capital of the country was singled out as the top of the table.

Kerala poverty alleviation programme spawns event management group A poverty eradication programme in Kerala has spawned an event management group that manages no high profile functions but organises fairs to market products of self-help neighbourhood groups.10:30 AM on September 06

Reuters - General Electric Co said on Friday it had been notified by U.S. regulators that a civil complaint could be filed against the company following a more than three-year-long probe into its use of hedge accounting for derivatives and other accounting matters.