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...regret in a deep, seven-second bow to the nation and pledging to overhaul national rescue operations. In his over one year in office, Ma has reached many milestones in relations with China, such as establishing direct transportation and closer economic ties, all of which are helping Taiwan weather the financial storm. But his approval ratings have dropped dramatically after Morakot. "President Ma faces a very serious crisis," says Chiu Hei-yuan, a sociologist at National Taiwan University. "He'll still have a chance if he does very well with the reconstruction." That won't come cheap: the estimate...
...quantity or quality of the ingredients that make a difference. It's the recipes," Varian told CNET. The recipes are Google's proprietary algorithms, which it has slaved over for more than a decade. They're Google's ultimate competitive advantage, and Google believes they'll help it weather the coming assault. (See the best social networking applications...
...Bing starts to move the needle? Google's first instinct has always been to innovate its way out of trouble. But there are a number of features in Google's search engine that most of the public is unaware of. Like how it can give you the local weather and movie times and perform currency conversions with a single search query. It's not in Google's DNA to run confrontational ads, but it's easy to imagine a campaign that shows off all the amazing things your friendly search giant can do. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American...
...August, and that's blowin' and goin'," Fisher says, using a local expression for quick in-and-out cases. "The past few days, it's been 220, 262, 240. It's a lot busier than usual. We have those numbers during traditional flu season, but not during shirtsleeve weather...
...demand for gas, despite its low price, stays relatively low. Then layer on the effects of the recession: gas-intensive industrial production is down 12.8% since this time last year, according to Barclays Capital bank estimates. On top of that, there's weather: this has been a cool summer in much of the U.S., so less natural gas has been burned for electricity to power air-conditioning than in recent years. (Read "America's Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency...