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Renowned venture capitalist John Doerr and Oracle President Charles Phillips have been appointed to President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Obama says he is seeking economic advice beyond the echo chamber of Washington. - President Obama announced an Economic RecoveryAdvisory Board Feb. 6 that includes renowned technology venture capitalist JohnDoerr and Oracle President Charles Phillips. The 16-member panel, led by formerFederal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, will provide the president with economicadvice....

Nanny Ninnie wrote: No, I have a nanny problem.When my children were young, we hired a nanny for a year. She had worked at the infant daycare where we initially enrolled our son. She was eager to leave, and after 9 months of continual ear infections, colds and stomach viruses, so were we.We weren't wealthy, and paying her was like paying a really big second mortgage, but that actually wasn't the reason we didn't pay Social Security or deduct taxes from her pay. It was the daunting amount of paperwork, which we would have had to pay someone else to do for us. That, added to the other costs, also was over the limit for us.Our nanny wasn't an illegal alien, and what we did was clearly wrong. But, if the government wants people to comply with laws governing taxes for nannies, regular yard men and people who come once a week to clean your house, how about an EZ employment form for dummies that's easier to fill out and file? If that exists now, will someone post and let me kn

Maasdammer is a Dutch cheese that has a sweet nutty flavour, is dome-shaped and contains large holes created by bacteria that release gases during the maturing process. Now, though, the Netherlands can boast their hole-making technology has been transferred to fonts.

Reliance Mutual Fund has cut exposure to Engineering Capital Goods, Pharmaceuticals and Cement Construction segments. However, the fund house increased investment in Information Technology, Metals Mining and Food Beverages sectors.

While Norm Elrod isn't a stranger to unemployment -- he has been laid off four times in eight years -- his most recent job loss late last year prompted him to do something he'd never done before: blog.

Sun Microsystems, one the leaders in the identity and access management space, spoke to eWEEK about some of its plans for 2009. Customers can expect moves around single sign-on technology and a continuation of efforts to reduce complexity. - Sun Microsystems wants to make a push in the competitive identity and access management market with an emphasis on reducing complexity and expanding the use of single sign-on technology.Identity and access management (IAM) is one of the fastest growing segments of security. Analyst firm IDC predi...

wsrita wrote: George_Miller wrote: Executive compensation should be set by the shareholders, not the Federal Government. Change the law / SEC regulations so that all executive compensation must be approved by a vote of the shareholders on a yearly basis. Executive compensation should be set by the shareholders, AND THE EMPLOYEES.If the executives can decide the compensation of the employees, then the employees, who know best how the company is doing, should have a say in how much the corporate officers can siphon off for themselves, no matter how lousy a job are doing. Even better if the shareholders and employees could fire their management that is failing.Such a plan could have kept a lot of totally irresponsible corporates from killing their own companies.However, as long as companies are using TAXPAYER MONEY then they must be subject to the rules that the taxpayers, through their representatives, and the president decide on. WSRita,Your knowledge of co

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 6, 2009) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRE services OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE U.S.Mint Technology Corp. (Mint) (TSX VENTURE:MIT) announced that it has reached an agreement with an arm's length creditor to settle a professional fees debt totaling $20,000 by the issuance of 100,000 common share purchase warrants exercisable at $0.15 per share for a period of 24 months. The issuance of the warrants is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. The warrants, and any shares issued thereunder, will be subject to a four-month hold period calculated from the date on which the warrants are issued.

MADRID (Reuters) - A U.S. law firm has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court in New York on behalf of investors in Optimal, an investment fund of Spain's Santander affected by the alleged $50 billion (34 billion pounds) fraud by U.S. financier Bernard Madoff.

CB Richard Ellis, the world’s leading real estate advisor, has announced that the take-up in the first three quarters of 2008 in the European data center market reached 93,000 m² across the five tier 1 markets.Andrew Jay, Head of Technology Practice Group, CB Richard Ellis, said: “The high level of take-up witnessed in the first three quarters of 2008 is illustrative of the data center market being less affected by the financial slowdown than other real estate markets. As such, we expect