by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein They are among pharma’s most successful speakers, featured at dinner after dinner promoting companies’ favored pills to their peers. Each has earned at least $200,000 since 2009 from this moonlighting. A review of the highest-earning physicians in ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs databaseoffers insight into why some medical professionals are drawn to […]
Posse Tea Party Comitatus
I have to admit, I enjoy browsing Tea Party websites. The sites are overrun by some of the craziest, teabagging, wingnuts on the web. There are some common themes. Here, for example, is one, “Second Amendment Rights, Any truth to the story that Secretary of State Clinton, word is she’s working on a small arms […]
Internet Elite Predict the Media in 2010
How will the media change in 2010? I’ve asked some of the most respected thought leaders in the space on what we should expect to see in the media industry in the coming year–and highlighted the most compelling ideas in bold. Whose prediction is the most likely to come true? Vote in the comments for […]
Facebook receives major Russian investment
Facebook receives major Russian investment By Jo Hedesan WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 2009 Photographer: Megan & David Powell (The International) — Facebook announced today, May 27th, that it received a major financial backing from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian company supported by steel tycoon Alisher Usmanov. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) reportedly paid US $200 million for a 1.96% […]
Google plans meter to detail home energy use(Video)
Consumers might one day be able to get a detailed look at their energy consumption using a tool being developed by Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. Google PowerMeter is intended to provide real-time information about home energy use to raise consumers’ awareness and potentially inspire them to be more energy efficient. The tool, which is being […]
Google plans meter to detail home energy use
Consumers might one day be able to get a detailed look at their energy consumption using a tool being developed by Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. Google PowerMeter is intended to provide real-time information about home energy use to raise consumers’ awareness and potentially inspire them to be more energy efficient. The tool, which is being […]