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Well, Larry, actually they don't. Alastair Dorward, CEO of Method Products, a San Francisco-based firm whose line of 150-plus household products grossed "well over $100 million" in 2007, says the presence of Clorox will prompt people "to start to question whether the products they currently use are good for families and the environment." He likes his odds...
...What did you think of the recent tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo? I was obsessed with that story. There was a lot of great coverage of that, but one idea, which was very anthropomorphic, was that [the victims] made the tiger mad and that's why the tiger jumped. A tiger is really not likely to jump just because it's mad. They did something to make that tiger think they were prey. So they either got on the fence, or jumped over the fence, or did something with their behavior to make that tiger think "dinner...
...With Nanaimo, they have mapped nearly every conceivable thing using Google Earth and Google Maps," Michael Jones, Google Earth's chief technology officer, said last August at a conference in Vancouver. "Their citizens have more information about their city than the people of San Francisco...
...Beating San Francisco in the e-stakes is a big deal for an old coal mining city of only around 78,000 people, nestled about an hour north of Victoria. What Nanaimo lacks for in size, it has tried to make up in sheer volume of raw electronic data...
...billion equity contribution to the bid, business author Neil Chenoweth says, "For Lachlan to be doing what he's doing, family money has to be involved." Then again, Chenoweth concedes that it's unclear how much Murdoch's main backer, SPO Partners, a private investment firm based in San Francisco, is putting up. Lachlan is adamant: "This is completely my own transaction," he told reporters in January. Asked about the CMH bid last month, Rupert Murdoch said, "Not only are we [News Corp.] not involved, I'm pretty ignorant about...