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...Grey High Wycombe, England It was rather sad that your story on London's Livingstone suggested that the congestion charge, the fee scheme for vehicles entering central London, has not been an unqualified success. The fact that the congestion charge has not raised as much money as projected to invest in public transportation is a measure of its success in discouraging unnecessary journeys. It has had a major impact on me - even though I work just outside the charging zone. The air outside my office is far cleaner than it was before the fees were introduced. A few businesses have...
...well-known venture capital firm announced yesterday that it will invest $13 million into thefacebook.com, the online college directory which was started at Harvard under two years...
Accel Partners, based in Silicon Valley, announced that it would invest in the 15-month old company, which currently has nearly three million registered users at over 800 colleges...
...invest in something that's popular when it's popular is the kiss of death," says Amit Wadhwaney, manager of the New York-based Third Avenue International Value Fund. Indeed, there's no more reliable way of earning dismal long-term returns than betting on what's hot. Consider some of the many ill-fated outbreaks of investor madness that have gripped Asia in recent decades: the giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97, and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before...
...pipeline through an Ecuadorian ecological preserve. RAN placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune labeling CEO Sandy Weill an environmental villain. Citigroup started meeting with RAN and last year announced that it would apply the Equator Principles to its business. The bank committed to banning investment in firms that logged primary tropical forests, and it pledged to invest in renewable-energy projects...