Pittsburgh is the worst U.S. city for short-term particle pollution, the American Lung Association announced on Thursday.
It was the first time a city outside California topped any of the association’s three lists for different kinds of pollution in its annual “State of the Air” report.
For those of you who don’t know, eBay bought a minority ownership stake (28.4%) in Craigslist nearly four years ago as part of a strategy to buy up classified advertising services both in the United States and Europe.
In a lawsuit filed under seal in Delaware Chancery Court last week, eBay alleged that Craigslist held “clandestine” directors’ meetings in recent months to dilute eBay’s 28.4% stake to 24.85%, or less than a quarter of the company.
Kevin Eyres, LinkedIn’s managing director for LinkedIn Europe told IDG that LinkedIn has a CPM of $75 for the U.S. and up to $75 for the UK. Like Michael Learmonth, I have a hard time believing this is an average CPM, but I certainly believe that LinkedIn has a much better CPM than the MySpace and FaceBooks out there.
Indeed, LinkedIn users’ average age is 41 and their average income is $110,000! Not too bad… especially compared to the cheap and young users of MySpace.
As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel.
Known as “hypermiling,” the method can double gas mileage, even in gas-guzzling vehicles that would normally get less than 20 mpg.
A new, viral web site conceived by U.S. college students challenges stereotypes about who might be infected with HIV.
The site, www.PosorNot.com, presents viewers with photos of people of different ages, colors and genders, challenging them to guess whether the person has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
Here are some of the hot search queries today on Google.
Thom Yorke, RadioHead frontman, just said the band won’t be repeating its initiative to let fans pay what they want for their downloads.
When In Rainbows came out last October, RadioHead shook the whole music industry by letting its fans pay whatever they wanted to download the album. The band has not communicated whether the initiative was a success or a failure.
A shark attacked and killed an American tourist surfing off a beach on Mexico’s Pacific coast, police said on Tuesday.
A gray shark bit 24-year-old San Francisco resident Adrian Ruiz in the leg on Monday, opening a 14-inch wound from his hip to his knee and exposing his femur, the public security ministry in the state of Guerrero said in a statement.
I’m just about to make the last payment for our trip to El Salvador in June. Me, my cousin Jeremy and a few of my friends will be surfing some of the best rights you can find in Central America. All this in warm water. Mmmmm warm water…
Las Flores is a 4-star boutique resort located on a pristine black sand beach amidst lush tropical surroundings, approximately 2.5 hours east of the El Salvador international airport, in the Department of San Miguel, in a region of El Salvador known as “El Orienteâ€.
Is Microsoft Google’s biggest threat? Nope. Is it Yahoo? Think again… Ben Kunz at Business Week wrote a very good article about how Google is actually its own biggest threat.
Google makes money by having ads displayed on your screen, whether when you’re doing a search on Google (these ads at the very top and on the side) but also on “affiliate” websites that use Adsense, Google’s advertising platform for publishers. For those of you who don’t know, publishers can make money from Google when they display Google ads on their site. Some people make really good money! Anyways.