Word: techs
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...Lifehacker Computer-tech tips and tricks to help you save time, and keep you sane; sister-blog Gizmodo gives up all the latest gadget news. Too mainstream for you? Best to head over to our favorite geek-convention,Slashdot.org
...test-firing seven ballistic missiles, the United Nations Security Council voted to bar U.N. member states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...high-yield, risky junk bonds. Raiders feasted on bloated conglomerates such as Beatrice, buying them up, busting them apart and reselling at a profit--until the economy slipped into recession. The ensuing bankruptcies killed off the junk-bond market, and the deals dried up. The late 1990s saw a tech-driven LBO resurgence, but that too ended with the 2000 bubble burst...
...action is attracting a host of new players. Investment banks, which retrenched after the tech bust, are ratcheting back up, as are money managers like financial-services firm Amvescap, which last week acquired WL Ross & Co., a buyout firm run by turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross. Even hedge funds--whose trader mentality is antithetical to buying and holding--are taking pages out of the buyout playbook. Hedge-fund operator Eddie Lampert not only bought and merged Sears and Kmart but also installed himself as chairman...
...With its matte and glossy black finish and hints of chrome and brushed aluminum, the CU500 may well be LG's most attractive model yet. Its look and high-tech innards definitely suggest that it's geared towards a fashionable male audience. I liked how easy the CU500 was to use. It has not just a colorful and responsive user interface, but buttons contoured just enough to dodge one of RAZR's ill effects - having to look down to dial. Easy hand dialing is a good thing, although the CU500 lacks the one thing that is even better: hands-free...