Digg, a still relatively new web 2.0 site which previ­ously focused primarily on technology and other geeky news, has expanded its coverage to include broader topics. For instance, business and finance. Time will tell if their readers are as adept at ranking inter­esting stories in other topics, which is its strength.

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A few days ago, super-investor Warren Buffett announced he would be donating the majority of his consid­erable assets to Bill Gates’ Foundation, and he’s been rightly commended in the media for his generosity. But for some reason, the ordinarily smart-minded folks at the Tax Policy Foundation have a bone to pick with Buffett over his […]

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Departing Senior VP and General Counsel Timothy Stevens of Borland Software has worked a deal whereby he gets to keep the “Company-issued laptop computer, monitor, printer and docking station used by Executive prior to the Separation Date together with the related loaded software, acces­sories and power cords.” If I left my firm I wouldn’t want to […]

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Not through any direct experience of my own, although my landlord did take the oppor­tunity to raise my rent the maximum allowable by law a month ago, but the city has been moving up the ranks of the most expensive on the planet. Toronto of course ranks first in Canada as the most expensive place […]

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Over at the AAO Weblog, there’s an inter­esting post concerning the Adelphia fraud and an “enabler”, Scientific-Atlanta, which is now a unit of Cisco. Around August 2000, Adelphia asked Scientific-Atlanta to increase the price of digital cable television set-top boxes it was selling to Adelphia — then kick back the difference to Adelphia in as […]

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