Archive for January, 2012

Apple CEO: ‘Amazon Fire didn’t dent our sales’

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Apple CEO: ‘Amazon Fire didn’t dent our sales’

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Apple Tops Estimates with Earnings Leap of 118 Per Cent

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Apple tops estimates with earnings leap of 118 per cent

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YouTube Tops One Hour of Video Uploads Per Second

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

YouTube tops one hour of video uploads per second

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Intel Upsets Apple Cart, Snaps Up QLogic’s InfiniBand Biz

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Intel upsets apple cart, snaps up QLogic’s InfiniBand biz

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Survey: Android Set to Beat iOS in Battle for Coder Love

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Survey: Android set to beat iOS in battle for coder love

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Use iBooks Author, Only Apple can Ever Publish the Result

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result

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Megaupload Kingpin Found in Panic Room when Arrested, say cops

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Megaupload kingpin found in panic room when arrested, say cops

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Behind a Newark business success: Find unwanted customers

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

FORTUNE — Diego Cobo was trying hard not to cry when he returned to his family in the waiting area at the dentist’s office. The three-year-old just had just had a cavity filled, and it hurt. “Maybe you shouldn’t eat so many candies,” his mom said to him. Diego thought for a minute, then pointed to the teeth on the side of his mouth that wasn’t numb with Novocaine, and said, “Maybe I can eat candies with these teeth?” If Diego is like the majority of patients at Newark, N.J.-based Dental Kidz, he will be back soon enough with more cavities. Dental Kidz targets patients on Medicaid and other subsidized health care. The practice is jointly owned by husband-and-wife team Chris and Lezli Harvell — he handles everything outside of the clinic, and she’s a dentist.

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Doctors living on loans

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Government-backed loans to doctors have surged more than 10-fold in the past decade, a trend industry insiders say is a red flag that doctors in America are in financial distress.

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Obama’s Keystone pipeline nix worries small business

Friday, January 20th, 2012

The hopes of some small business owners in the Nebraskan towns of Fairbury and Steele City were crushed when the Obama administration rejected a proposed expansion of the Keystone oil sands pipeline.

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