Linkfest: Friday, October 23, 2009
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Compiled by Eben Esterhuizen
The Lucrative Business of Obama Bashing: The White House is now engaged (as in war, not diplomacy) with Fox News, to the evident delight of the channel's owner, Rupert Murdoch.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/10/22/the-lucrative-business-of-obama-bashing/?rpc=64
5 Ways to Ruin Your Credit: Improving your credit score takes some elbow grease. Ruining it, on the other hand, is a piece of cake.
http://www.mint.com/blog/the-motley-fool/5-ways-to-ruin-your-credit/
Busted! 10 Financial Myths You Need to Know About.
Infographic: The Brand Finance review of the top 500 financial service brands in the world, provides great insight into the top finance brands by sector. Unfortunately for the Middle East's banks, their brand value could not get anywhere close to that of the big brands in the rest of the world.
http://www.busmanagementme.com/news/banking-brands/
Twitter offered $500K to run a single banner advert for just one day: The offer has been made by uSocial, a company that specialises in marketing products and services through the social-networking website, reports the Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6408536/Twitter-offered-500000-to-run-advert.html
Wal-Mart fires employee for chasing after thief: Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart "asset protection officer" earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot. The next day, Wal-Mart fired Rutner.
How Apple's Market Share Will Propel Stock to $500: "The trend of the 2010 decade appears to be one of Apple gaining market share and Microsoft losing market share," writes Jason Schwarz.
Video of Niall Ferguson: The Dollar is Dying a Slow Death.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/niall-ferguson-the-dollar-is-dying-a-slow-death/
Facebook Sees Big Bucks in Virtual Goods: Gaming is blowing up on Facebook, and the social networking site hopes to take a cut of the very real revenue generated by virtual interactions.
http://www.newser.com/story/72442/facebook-sees-big-bucks-in-virtual-goods.html
China Must Be Confronted on Currency: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says China has been allowed to get away with its outrageous currency policy for far too long and it's time the world did something about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/opinion/23krugman.html?_r=1
Poll: Are you seeing signs that we are at the beginning of a financial recovery?
http://adage.com/poll?poll_id=185
Watch the New Nike Ad: Control Room
