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...about 71 million U.S. users (17 million of whom already listen to music regularly on the site), Imeem is relatively unpopulated. It has about six million unique visitors in the U.S. and 17 million worldwide, according to Quantcast. "They have a dedicated but very small constituency," notes NPD entertainment analyst Russ Krupnick. Part of the problem is Imeem's jumbled interface, which is so focused on community that it's not immediately obvious what the site is even about. Part of it is legacy: Imeem, which was co-founded by engineers from the original Napster music service, struggled early...
...President Zardari's charm offensive on Ms. Palin was, well, offensive," wrote political analyst Mosharraf Zaidi in an op-ed for The News. "What excuse does the husband of a global feminist icon have for his faux pas?" he asked in a reference to the late Benazir Bhutto's status as the Muslim world's first female Prime Minister...
...have been increasingly loath to lend to some 1,200 scrappy, smaller rivals. This is contributing to the liquidity squeeze. "It's the second- and third-league firms and banks that will be hurt, not the big state-owned or state-controlled ones," says Gunter Deuber, a global-risk analyst for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt...
...Some Russia watchers are expecting much more upheaval. Vladimir Savov, an analyst for Credit Suisse in Moscow, sees the recent turmoil as the beginning of a broad consolidation of Russia's highly-leveraged banking sector. "We want to hope that this will improve the resilience of Russia's financial markets in the long term," he says, "although in the near term the process could be painful." Renaissance says it had been in talks for some time and didn't act out of distress. But its move came a few days after the first financial institution fell victim to the crisis...
...whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait of a boy who endured a verbally abusive mother and grew into a man desperately dependent on a series of women to bolster his psyche--even as he became the richest person on the planet. Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen. When Buffett's daughter tells him he doesn't have to go to his wife's funeral, he is awash with relief: "'I can't,' he said. To sit there...