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...linkage between Asian growth and the American consumer bears special mention. The U.S. consumer is still the dominant consumer in the global economy. Although America accounts for only about 4.5% of the world's population, its consumers spent about $10 trillion in 2008. By contrast, although China and India collectively account for nearly 40% of the world's population, their combined consumption was only about $2.5 trillion in 2008. During the boom, China and the rest of Asia reaped enormous benefits from a mercantilist growth model that was tied increasingly to the voracious appetite of the American consumer. Unfortunately, Asia...
Qualys aims to increase the depth of its vulnerability-scanning services, reaching further into networks by auditing servers that host and operate certain Web applications for self-propagating virus programs known as malware. It released a special QualysGuard module in April 2008 to achieve this objective. After a series of acquisitions this summer, an improved version will probably be forthcoming in the next 12 to 18 months. "Because of the Internet, the enterprise network is disappearing, and companies need to be ready to protect what's left," Courtot forecasts. Security as a service, it turns out, is a pretty legit...
...Story 2 fell 39%. The weekend should reach a cumulative $100 million. That will leave the box office 8% ahead of last year in revenue and 4% ahead in attendance, making movies one of the few big businesses to flourish in the Great Recession. (See TIME's special report "The Voices of Pixar...
...bottom-up effort," says Curtis. "You need local buy-in every step of the way, so towns will pass resolutions to help start putting in charging infrastructure, put in special lanes and enforce speed limits...
...Rica's green facade today is "tremendous disorder." Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, a political rival and environment minister under Arias' predecessor, Abel Pacheco, and vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based Conservation International, says Arias "has been neither serious nor coherent on the issue of the environment." (See TIME's special report "Heroes of the Environment...