Oil Shale reserves in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming have been known for nearly a century. Oil Shale reserves were known in the 1920’s unfortunately the technology wasn’t good enough at that time. Read the rest of this entry »
What is Behavioral targeting ? Behavioral advertising is the latest approach of advertisers: and Charter and Nebuform are in a lot trouble over it. Behavioral targeting trying to improve on the current model of analyzing a website’s content and bringing you content sensitive advertising - the best known example of which is Google’s Adsense. Read the rest of this entry »
InBev (INB.BT) a large Belgian brewer is offering buy Budweiser (BUD) for $46.4 billion. Budweiser the iconic American beer owned by Europeans! The Belgians buy out Budweiser the headlines will no doubt read. The merger would value Anheuser at $65 a share, would create the world’s biggest brewer. This would be the largest all-cash deal in ever according to sources. Read the rest of this entry »
Erin Callen appears to be the latest high profile casualty of the credit squeeze on wall street. Erin Callen, CFO of Lehman has been a bit of pin-up girl for Wall Street. She is still rare - a women at the top echelons of Wall Street - but like her male colleagues her neck is on line in exchange for that very nice salary she was no doubt earning as a CFO Read the rest of this entry »
Gordon Ramsey Cookware is the latest venture of the famous English Chef. Gordon Ramsey is famous for cooking and his anglo-saxon language and his cooking: Gordon Ramsey cookware should be a good quality product. Read the rest of this entry »
Gas has just hit $4/ gallon in the US - which really doesn’t evoke much sympathy in the rest of the world. In the UK gas Now a US gallon is 3.7litres. So $4/gallon fuel priceequates to $1.08 / litre wow what a shocking fuel price Not! Read the rest of this entry »
Solazyme is talking about making algae oil also known as algal fuel commercially within 3 years. The small Californian firm has been featured on PBS regarding its claims that it can make economically viable oil. Of course it may well do so: as long as oil remains about US$100 / barrel a whole raft of alternative technologies become financially viable, as does finding more oil itself Read the rest of this entry »
