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online outsourcing is bad for american workers

Among business leaders, knocking the competition is an age-old pastime, and when we reported on complaints that online labor marketplaces like oDesk are driving down wages for freelancers, Mike Paolucci, CEO of U.S. focused labor platform Solvate, saw his opening. Meanwhile, oDesk fires back. Read more »

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Electric Car Battery Glut Looms on the Horizon

While I’m an avid reader of Thomas Friedman’s op-eds, I have to quibble with his weekend article, where he repeats the Moore’s Law for batteries argument. Even if lighting a fire under entrepreneurs, investors and engineers is good for advancement of greentech, let’s be realistic. Read more »

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If President-elect Obama is serious about bailing out Detroit and also serious about his campaign goal of putting 1 million domestically produced plug-in electric hybrids on the road by 2015, execs like Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman, have no place in tomorrow’s Detroit — at least […] Read more »

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“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” seems to be the place to be if you want to pitch your grand energy idea. Author and energy technology evangelist Thomas Friedman was the guest on Tuesday, and last night T. Boone Pickens pitched his Pickens Plan on the […] Read more »

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At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit — the annual convention that has come to represent the new web boom –- a leading web industry journalist asked me if green technology was here to stay, or if it is just another fad that would die at the […] Read more »

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Well my friends, the time has come To raise the roof and have some fun Throw away the work to be done Let the music play on (play on, play on) – Lionel Richie, All Night Long Following the wall-to-wall liveblogging of yesterday’s sold-out NewTeeVee Live […] Read more »

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Sometimes I just wonder if even AOL knows what the f*ck is going on. Now they are backing out of broadband market is the Red States. Crazy? I don’t get it, but then who knows after all their brains are AWOL. Read more »

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