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...Tuesday, Apple unveiled a number of improvements to its mobile operating system, which will only hasten old media's move to the post-Web world. The biggest change: Apple's app store will let us charge subscriptions for our content. (Of course, we always could charge for subscriptions on the Web, but who'd pay for that experience?) And now, with a rumored 9-inch iPod Touch heading to consumers - an Apple iReader! Linked to Apple's one-click-to-pay App store! - I bet great magazines and newspapers will come up with iterations that you actually will...
...that much out of the next $30 billion in bailout funding when it is delivered - which amounts to a mere 0.1% of the total AIG has received. Assorted Senators, from New York Democrat Chuck Schumer to Montana Democrat Max Baucus and Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, have proposed a number of tax and legal schemes to snatch back the bonus bucks from AIG FP executives - 73 of whom got payouts of $1 million or more, according to New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo. (Read "Treasury Learned of AIG Bonuses Earlier Than Claimed...
...number right? Probably not. When looking at a market as large as mortgage-backed securities, once the magnitude becomes too great, it is impossible to be precise to the last dime. But, the figure is almost certainly within a narrow range of the actual problem big banks still face. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...three spots. The company has already fired thousands of people, so it is lean, maybe too lean to grow. IBM has been watching Hewlett-Packard become a more formidable competitor. And, Cisco (CSCO) recently said it would get into the high-end server business. The number of huge companies that want a piece of IBM's business seems to be growing. IBM gets new technology by buying Sun, but, more importantly, it gets Sun's market share...
...projected budget shortfalls come at a time when nonprofits' services are most in demand. Last year the United Way saw a 68% increase nationally in the number of calls for basic needs, according to "The Quiet Crisis." The state of Arizona reported a doubling in the number of people who sought social services last year, and 70% of the nonprofits in Michigan reported an increased demand for services...