This is a great 2 minute video from famous author, ethicist and Jewish Hero Elie Wiesel on Rashi, the greatest exegete of the last 1000 years. It is part of the publication of Wiesel's book on Rashi from Nextbook press. ... Go to Full Article

Dhabi's telecom assets in Africa include Warid Telecom Uganda and Warid Congo SA, the group's website showed. India's Essar Group may invest into Dhabi Group's telecommunication business in Africa to expand operations in the region, ... Go to Full Article

RT @rbremer: Congrats to @richardmoross for making the Guardian's Digital Media top 10 Sergey & Larry, Jobs, & Zuck: http://bit.ly/28tG01. Go to Full Article

Warburg sold a 5.6% stake for Rs 246 crore, and still holds a 17% stake in in insurance and healthcare firm Max India. Private equity major Warburg Pincus has sold more than 5.6% stake in insurance and healthcare firm Max India through ... Go to Full Article

Gulf based Sharia compliant firm has teamed up with former CEO of AIM listed Neutrahealth Plc to launch the HSOF fund. Companies listed on AIM can now take a breather. After gaining a reputation of facing investor's ire often resulting ... Go to Full Article

By Paul Kedrosky · Saturday, July 18, 2009 ·. The current Economist has an interesting survey of parking prices around the world: Parking Prices Around the World. « Readings | Home | The Potato as Disruptive Innovation » ... Go to Full Article

James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment). James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion. He puts his money where his... Go to Full Article

My Twitter Updates for the Week. July 19, 2009. Headed to the grocery store - my weekly trek. #; Back from Ice Age, slow… Ethan and Pierce liked it… #; Last week to find a Porsche Cayenne for Michele. Did the Porsche dealer on Lemon ... Go to Full Article

Good (year-old) graph of the narrowing of the U.S. tax base over time. It is yet another example of how the U.S.'s public finances have become distorted and wobbly, with inequitable and unsustainable results. ... Go to Full Article

We have estimated the effect of the introduction of the potato on Old World population growth and urbanization. The nutritional and caloric superiority of the potato, and its diffusion from the New World to the Old, ... Go to Full Article

Last month Urbana announced that is looking to pick upto 5% stake in NSE for around $130 million (Rs 625 crore). Urbana Corp., a Canadian investment fund led by Thomas Caldwell that buys shares in stock exchanges, has scrapped plans to ... Go to Full Article

Contributors (Last 90 days). Greg Cruey (8); This site has 501 entries and is powered by Creative Weblogging since July 2005. Do you want to start or edit an existing blog for us and get paid? More info. Do you want to advertise on this ... Go to Full Article

Donahue joined GSO last summer to head its new Asia credit investments desk in Hong Kong. Who says you can't go home again? Less than a year after jumping to the Blackstone Group's GSO Capital Partners—and six months after GSO shuttered ... Go to Full Article

From Aug 1 a new rule comes into effect prohibiting charging of entry fees by the firms, making it harder to sell them. Indian money managers are rushing to launch new products before Aug. 1 when a new rule comes into effect prohibiting ... Go to Full Article

Heyzap. Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in the US alone and minutes spent playing grew a staggering 42% from 2008 to ... Go to Full Article