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...moment, Google's most pressing problem is Microsoft. The software giant is spending $100 million to market its new search engine, Bing - and in the process, to get us all bummed about Google. Bing's slick ads are unavoidable and blistering. They suggest that Google is broken, that it rarely leads us to what we're looking for and turns us all into blathering zombies who spew out search keywords in casual conversation...
...give you the local weather and movie times and perform currency conversions with a single search query. It's not in Google's DNA to run confrontational ads, but it's easy to imagine a campaign that shows off all the amazing things your friendly search giant can do. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...tracking Taiwanese indices—reversing its earlier decision to sell the two million shares it had in the fund as of last September. Other investments of note include over $55 million in an ETF tracking Russian indices, and multi-million dollar repurchases of shares in mining giant BHP Billiton and oil and gas producer China National Offshore Oil Corporation. While the value of Harvard’s equity investments has increased, it remains modest compared to where it stood last September, when the University had nearly $3 billion invested in 213 public equity holdings. Jane Mendillo, president...
...seeing a confident actress quiver in the presence of Wintour (not a hugger). But having sniffed out a good story arc, director R.J. Cutler, who produced The War Room and co-directed A Perfect Candidate, sticks to it, looking for more illustrations of conflict between the masthead's two giant feminine forces - like the scene in which Wintour eyes the results of a $50,000 photo shoot inspired by John Galliano designs and starts slashing. Coddington moans to co-workers, "She's killed half of it." Coddington is the creative sponge who soaks up beauty on behalf of Vogue, while...
...current challenge is not consoling his giant neighbor but winning back the hearts of his own people. "There are now people who are thinking about the return of the DPP," says Lin Chong-pin, a political scientist at Tamkang University. "If the 2012 election was held now, Ma would be bound to lose." Taiwan's reception of its Tibetan guest next week is Ma's bet to boost public sentiment. Though Ma is unlikely to meet with the Dalai Lama officially, the two may appear together at religious gatherings for the victims. Lin says, "On balance overall, I think...