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Aside from the major search engines, which include Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, there are a number of minor companies competing for users' attention. Some claim they are not search engines, probably because they do not want to seem small compared to Google. Very few Web surfers use Ask.com, Answer.com and About.com. Search company GoshMe claims that there are half a million search-engine products. That figure seems high, but it is impossible to disprove. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...There are going to be changes to the boards of every major financial-services firm," says Clarke Murphy, co-head of the board-services practice at executive-search firm Russell Reynolds. "As many as half of their independent members [i.e., directors who are not officers of the bank] may change...
Traditionally, banking experience was never a major criterion for becoming a board member at the nation's largest financial-services firms. Banks and other financial-services firms have long filled their boards with nonfinancial executives, be they industrial chiefs, heads of nonprofits or professors. That's been changing in recent years, especially with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, which sought to strengthen corporate boards. But apparently the changes have not gone far enough. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...climate change - is Obama's apparent success in bringing the U.S. auto industry to the table. Automakers have fought long and hard against tougher fuel-economy standards, claiming such rules would raise the cost of vehicles and that consumers have shown little preference for more fuel-efficient models. But major auto executives, such as General Motors' new CEO, Fritz Henderson, are expected stand alongside Obama at the White House on Tuesday when the President makes his announcement, signaling their support. "It will establish a single national standard that will provide predictability and certainty for the auto companies in meeting regulations...
...Returned to active duty in the Marines in 1994, and eventually became deputy commander of U.S forces in Japan. Retired in 2003 as a major general...