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...Look for a blood bath as big tech companies try to consolidate their positions in the coming months. Apple is rumored to be launching an $800 laptop, moving into a lower price range that makes it even more competitive with PC makers such as HP and Dell. In online retail, Amazon would love to put a stake in the heart of eBay this holiday season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MySpace to Businesses: Kiss MyAds | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...week. On Tuesday, bond markets in the U.S. will reopen after having been closed for Columbus Day, and investors will get their first real look since the weekend at how much, if at all, credit has thawed. The rest of the week will bring a slew of economic reports - retail sales, consumer prices, housing starts - and corporate earnings, including those from financial firms such as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and BlackRock. Will those reports send stocks soaring or back into the trenches? It's a great question - with an unknowable answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Big Bounce: Don't Start Cheering Yet | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Plenty of shopaholics claim to live at the mall. But when the Americana at Brand opened in Glendale, Calif., in May, shoppers really got a chance to make themselves at home. That's because the $400 million retail complex includes not just Cole Haan, Barnes & Noble and Urban Outfitters but also 100 condos and 238 apartments--part of real estate's mixed-use trend. Since the Americana's opening, however, the economy has taken a tough turn. TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan asked Lawrence, V.P. of sales at a company that makes motion-sensor trash cans, about life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Times Are Tough, but I Still Live at the Mall. Literally | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...beginning of the week as the FTSE 100 racked up its biggest fall in 21 years. Last month the government was forced to nationalize the mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, and earlier this year it took over another debt-ridden bank, Northern Rock, guaranteeing the deposits of retail customers. Britain's protection scheme for private-sector banks guarantees deposits only up to $87,500, causing some jittery savers to look on enviously as some European Union countries announced full protection for all retail accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Bank Bailout: Is It Enough? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...integers and geometry. There are moments of hilarity as the English-educated teacher struggles for the right Hindi terms. Next door, Riya Goenka, another Teach India volunteer and a former banker, is leading a class in spoken English to half a dozen teenagers, all of whom want to be retail or beauty-parlor assistants. This is the India in the dawn - whom economic growth has touched just enough to raise aspirations without providing avenues to fulfill those aspirations. "I believe the single most important factor here will be education," says Iyer, "And who knows, Teach India might just start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Grass-Roots Teachers | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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