interesting + business
- You might be paying $1,000 per MB for SMS
- Many mobile prepaid service plans in the US still require a per SMS charge. Most charge for sending and receiving and include a premium charge for sending to other countries. Have you ever sat down to figure out how much you’re really paying for this fric
- 2007-08-01 to business, interesting, telco by bagoly
- If You Knew Sushi
- In search of the ultimate sushi experience, the author plunges into the frenzy of the world's biggest seafood market—Tokyo's Tsukiji, where a bluefin tuna can fetch more than $170,000 at auction—and discovers the artistry between ocean and plate, as wel
- 2007-06-21 to bestof, business, food, interesting by bagoly
- The man who sued his dry-cleaner for $65,500,000...
- ... (and other weird tales from the litigation front line of America)
- 2007-05-04 to bestof, business, interesting, legal by bagoly
- Exotic Bottled Water
- The cost to produce and deliver a bottle of imported water is $0.22, leaving $1.28 per bottle profit for the manufacturer and the retail store.
- 2007-04-24 to business, drink, interesting by bagoly
- The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business
- What entrepreneurs starting family businesses can learn from the demise of Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi
- 2007-04-18 to business, history, interesting by bagoly
- The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006
- From the Bush administration’s post-Katrina power grab to a growing arms race in Latin America to the new hackable passports, FP delivers the Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006.
- 2007-01-03 to bestof, business, interesting, politics, stories by bagoly
- To Sketch a Thief
- Charney is completing a doctorate at Cambridge University in a field he appears to have invented: the use of art history, combined with the more conventional tools of criminology, psychology and deductive logic, to help solve modern-day art thefts and to
- 2006-12-19 to arts, bestof, business, crime, interesting, theft by bagoly
- The Litvinenko Mystery- by Justin Raimondo
- What began as a clean and simple narrative, a morality tale pitting a heroic "human rights" crusader and former KGB agent against a tyrannical Russian leader and moral monster, has, on closer examination, turned into something quite different – and far
- 2006-11-30 to business, fraud, interesting, story, war by bagoly
- Can you invest in a Nobel Prize-winning idea?
- For ethical investors, companies involved in microfinance can offer competetive returns as well as social appeal.
- 2006-11-07 to business, interesting by bagoly
- Fortune’s Fools: Why the Rich Go Broke
- Entertainers aren’t the only rich people with holes in their pockets. Business people, seemingly prepared to have a better handle on their balance sheets than celebrities, have wound up as big debtors as well.
- 2006-09-19 to business, interesting by bagoly
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