Quick : who is the presidential candidate with the fastest growing online support base? If you answered Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or even Ron Paul, you would have been wrong. Less than 2 weeks after declaring his candidacy, comedian and TV show host Stephen Colbert is making waves (again).
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Just two more months until the new year. 2007 will be remembered for a lot of things. One of them, unfortunately, is the subprime mortgage financial crisis. The crisis came after a housing market bubble that began in the aftermath of the dot com crash, all the way back in 2001.
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Short story. On Eid Mubarak eve, I left office early (thanks, boss!) and went to see my wife whose art centre was still running. While waiting for her students to finish up, I did some browsing and ended up at 5xmom. 5xmom was writing about her experience in opening up an account with AlRajhi, a new bank.
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We’ve mentioned several times how Halo 3 broke all gaming records and went on to $300 million in sales. It’s been a great money-spinner for Microsoft. You see, while Microsoft’s share has been high all along, it hasn’t grown much over the past few years. Now largely thanks to Halo 3, Microsoft has reported a 23% growth in net profit in the last quarter. The “Halo effect” helped sell 1.8 million units of Xbox 360 in the past 3 months.
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