American motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson will soon open up its first Chinese retail outlet in a very long time:

Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is to open a dealership in Beijing, its first outlet in China in more than 50 years.Beijing Harley-Davidson, which has teamed up with dealer Beijing Feng Hou Lun, is set to open in April ( Read more... )

Basically, all the big IT players are doing it:

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A lot of people have always hated Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. In the past, I'd always chalked their hatred up to jealousy over his vast wealth.

Boy, was I ever wrong about that. Bill Gates is actually an evil, conniving bastard who helps authoritarian regimes crush the free exchange of ideas:

Microsoft's action raises a key question: ( Read more... )

Iran has threatened to end nuclear cooperation with IAEA:

Iran threatened Friday to end surprise inspections and other cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program, and the president vowed his country won't be intimidated by sanctions ( Read more... )

AVN recently held it's annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. The news? Porno is a growing industry:

In the first quantitative study conducted in three years, Adult Video News estimates consumers spent $12.6 billion on adult entertainment last year ( Read more... )

America Online and Google have signed a $1 billon deal. This deal is expected to give a serious boost to AOL and parent company Time Warner. This is all just part of a continuing industry battle for more email usersI personally have mixed feelings about AOL. I used to be on the pay version of AOL for about six months due to a free trial offer. I ( Read more... )

Virgin Galactic has announced plans to build the first commercial spaceport in New Mexico. This is especially interesting when coupled with Space Island Group's plans to build industry on the high frontier. Both of these companies deal with Low Earth Orbit(LEO) commercial space endeavors. In another story, the European Space Agency recently ( Read more... )

Narnia is coming. Can you say "huge impact", everyone? Marketing + Movies + Christianity:

With Friday's release of the film version of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the marketing push to promote the sale of Narnia books and other related merchandise is reaching a crescendo - and nowhere more so than in Christian ( Read more... )

Google: The greatest internet search engine in the history of the world so far. Everybody knows just what Google is and what it's capabilities are. You love Google. I love Google. Everybody loves Google so much they want to serve it breakfast in bed after a night of passionately making hot naughty love to Google. Everybody that is, except for the ( Read more... )