It’s this time of the year where I put my hippie hat again. This weekend will be the 4th Healing Arts Festival in Balboa Park.
In addition to the various exhibition booths where you can learn a bunch about health, food, etc…, they have some great bands playing.
Yahoo Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but failed to do well enough to convince many on Wall Street that Microsoft Corp needs to raise its takeover bid.
“Our board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a Microsoft deal. ” Said CEO Jerry Yang.
Times have changed. The eloquently written love notes of yesterday probably won’t get you very far these days when it comes to serenading that special someone. Want to learn how to be a text messaging Cassanova? Watch this Super News pod and you too can be Texting Your Way To Love in no time.
For the 3rd year in a row, Google has grabbed the top spot in a list of the top most powerful global brands. Its brand value grew 30 percent since last year’s report to surpass $86 billion.
Microsoft, for the record, once again came in third, with a $70.9 billion brand value. (General Electric once again took second place, at $71.4 billion).
After investing $4.4 million in 2007 in 23andMe, a genetic screening company, Google just invested in a new DNA screening startup called Navigenics.
The New York Times published this morning a great article on how the US administration shapes information by putting its military analysts on major news channels.
Here are some of the highlights but I strongly recommend reading the full article:
My friend Kriss forwarded me a link to a video showing the story of stuff. I’m usually very cautious at watching what Kriss sends me because she’s a hippie and her ideal of “saving the planet” is just too much for me sometimes.
But I clicked and watched the full 20 minute video, which, I have to admit, was really good.
Here is one band that deserve your attention! Foals are an indie rock band from Oxford, England. Their first album
I never liked FaceBook. I created an account a few months ago just to see how it 
works. After adding a few friends (actual friends), I quickly became annoyed and overwhelmed by the amount of useless information.
I had heard that FaceBook was a cleaner MySpace. This is wrong! FaceBook is everything but clean. All these crappy little apps are bothering the hell out of me. The page is cluttered and make it very hard to read or understand what you’re doing.