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7 Signs You’re About to Get Fired

Tue, 03/01/2011 - 13:11 by Mithila Borker

Getting the boot, the pink slip, sack, terminate – no matter what you call it, getting fired almost always seems to come out of the blue, right? Um, wrong actually.

Does a Driverless Car Mean Road Safety?

Mon, 12/27/2010 - 09:36 by Anil Das

Remember watching all those futuristic sci-fi movies, which made your jaw drop with highly developed cars such as driverless varieties, ones with auto-drive capacities, or ones that could fly? Well, the future in those movies may not be so far away, as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is close to making one of these cars a reality. The Internet giant recently created a lot of buzz over its computer-driven cars, which it has been testing on the West Coast.

Hot Dang! China's Amazon Has an IPO

Fri, 12/10/2010 - 10:20 by Rick Aristotle ...

 It's apparently good to be called the Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) of China. E-Commerce China Dangdang (Nasdaq: DANG) rocketed in its Wall Street debut yesterday. China's leading online bookseller was initially expected to price its offering between $13 and $15 a share. It was able to price at $16, but opened at $24.50 and closed at a whopping $29.91.

 

Has Weatherford International Made You Any Real Money?

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 11:32 by Seth Jayson

 Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls.

 

Are These Utilities Creating Value?

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:31 by Dan Dzombak

 Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, once said, "I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther."

 

Beware! This Amazing Colossal Mistake Could Eat Your Portfolio

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 22:41 by Motley Fool

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Buffett's Biggest Investment Mistake

Wed, 10/20/2010 - 12:16 by Alex Dumortier

What is Warren Buffett's biggest investing mistake to date? We no longer need to guess at the answer. In an interview that aired yesterday on CNBC, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) said "the dumbest stock" he ever bought was ... Berkshire Hathaway. On the scale of mistakes, this was a beaut – Buffett estimates the opportunity cost of the investment at roughly $200 billion.

15 dogs seized in sheriff's parking lot

Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:49 by Prince damin

Santa Fe, N.M. -- The head of a New Mexico animal shelter stopped at a police station to explain a dog-napping "mistake" and 15 dogs were seized from her car, police said.

Natalie Owings, director of the Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary near Santa Fe, said there were 15 dogs in her vehicle Thursday when she stopped at the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office to explain why an employee had taken a Yorkshire terrier Sept. 28 from outside the Bureau of Land Management offices on an apparently bogus tip the animal was being abused, the Albuquerque Journal reported Friday.

However, while Owings was explaining what she called a "big mistake," deputies seized 15 dogs, including the Yorkie, from Owings' truck, Sheriff Greg Solano said.

$5,000 deposit given to customer

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 05:36 by Prince damin

Fayetteville, N.C. -- Police in North Carolina said they are searching for a Krispy Kreme customer who mistakenly received $5,000 in a box of doughnuts.

Fayetteville Police Department spokesman Dan Grubb said the money was concealed in the box Friday morning by a store employee who intended to have another worker hand it off to her through the drive-through so she could make a deposit on behalf of the shop, the Fayetteville Observer reported Tuesday.

"She (the employee) places the box near the windows and goes to her car," Grubb said.

However, a worker at the window who was unaware of the plan gave the box to a customer who placed an order.

"The customer left with doughnuts and a $5,000 bonus," Grubb said.

Titans' Young apologizes for club fight

Tue, 06/15/2010 - 10:02 by Rakhi

Nashville -- Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young apologized to the team and fans Monday after being cited for a weekend fight in a Dallas strip club.

"I don't want to get all into (what happened), but I made a mistake like I told my teammates," Young told The (Nashville) Tennessean after practice. "I apologize to them as well as the organization and all my fans, especially my family, the people that look up to me.

"I made a big mistake, even being out there. But it is in the past. It is over with and now I am letting my legal folks take care of it."

Candy-like tobacco can cause nicotine poisoning in kids--study

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 16:20 by Natalie James

A new generation of flavored, dissolvable tobacco products are becoming increasingly popular among teens. But, a new research has warned that the novel tobacco product, which according to some critics too closely resembles Tic Tac breath mints, could be life-threatening for children who mistake them for candy.

This Mistake Could Cost You a Fortune

Mon, 01/18/2010 - 11:54 by Austin Edwards

Man, was that ever a brutal year ...