WSJ: Harvard endowment down 22% in four months — I guess my 401-K drop doesn’t look so bad now.
Wired: Copper Thieves Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, FBI says
WSJ: November Is as Bad as Feared
ReadWriteWeb: The New York Times Opens Web Front Page to Outside Content
Paid Content: Morningstar Acquires SEC Filings Service 10-K Wizard
WSJ: Google Gears Down for Tougher Times
Reuters: Investors accuse Citi execs of “suspicious” trades
Lost Remote: Retail stores face scanning revolution
Washington Post: Mumbai Gunmen Used Technology as A Tactical Tool
JD Lassica: Why social media and marketing do mix
PaidContent: Redstone Sells Midway Games For Pittance—And A Massive Tax Writeoff
WSJ: Ford Will Speed Green-Car Launches
Reuters: At Least Three Groups Submit Bids For Cubs: Sources
WSJ: Sears Swings to a Loss as Sales Slow
ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo’s Top 10 Mobile Searches for 2008: Local Info and Social Networking
ReadWriteWeb: The End of Online Anonymity
PaidContent: iTunes: Coldplay, Leona Lewis Top 2008 Sales
Forbes.com: What Is Gold Telling Us?
WSJ: U.S. Car Sales Dropped Sharply in November
WSJ: Ex-AOL CEO Reportedly Raising Funds To Bid For Yahoo
CNN: $700B bailout needs better oversight – auditor
Bloomberg: Fed’s Bullard Says Cutting Rates May Risk Japan-Style Deflation
Portfolio: Detroit tries again with Washington
NY Times: A Generation of Local TV Anchors Is Signing Off
NY Times: CNN Pitches a Cheaper Wire Service to Newspapers — Papers have already been cutting AP service to save money, do they have money to spend on this?
TechCrunch: The Huffington Post Raises $25 Million from Oak Investment Partners
Footnoted.org: Former Tyco execs watch portfolios grow while in prison…
ReadWriteWeb: Black Friday, Cyber Monday…Mobile Tuesday?
NBC Chicago: Trump Sued Over Chicago Tower
Reuters: Microsoft and Yahoo in talks again
WSJ: Are Democratic Presidents Good for Stocks?
TechCrunch: When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record
TechCrunch: SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper — SEC rules the person to person network is a seller of securities and as such should be licensed. Other P2P lenders are also under scrutiny. The issue first arose in October — San Francisco Business Times: Prosper suspends lending, Zopa exits U.S. market.
WSJ: Consumers Say Wall Street Failed Them — Consumers say they’re asked to take all the risk, and they don’t know what they’re doing.
Kevin Kelly: Screen Fluency — We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.
Lifehacker: Trim Your Budget by Reclaiming the Special Treats
Richard Karlgaard: Twelve Steps To Economic Recovery
Business Opportunities: Lifetime Spent On Fun And Games — a profile of the inventor of Twister and Nerf balls
Business Opportunities: Crowdsourcing The Sales Force — LeadVine lets users post the types of sales leads they seek along with the referral fee they’re willing to pay; the community is then invited to earn that fee by making the desired connections. Fees listed on the site must be at least USD 50, but the range is considerable.
WSJ: Builders Make Plea for Federal Aid — Struggling U.S. auto makers left Washington empty-handed after weeks of pleading for a handout, but that hasn’t deterred home builders from stepping up to lobby Congress for help.
WSJ: Investors Say Wait Till Next Year
Variety: Needed: TV Network bailout?
TechCrunch: Acquisition Dance Between Facebook And Twitter Over For Now?
WSJ: ‘Cyber Monday’ Discounts Bloom
Lifehacker: GreatSummary Boils Down a Web Page to a Few Sentences
TechCrunch: Facebook Wins An $873 Million Judgment Against Spammers That It Will Never Collect
Digital Rules by Rich Karlgaard: Detroit’s Brand Killer — In addition to its other mistakes, Detroit’s addiction to fleet sales, particularly of rental cars, was a killer.
NY Times: Saudi Prince to Raise Stake in Citigroup
Reuters (via NY Times): Financials Need At Least $1 Trillion: Analyst
NY Times: Commercial Loans Are Looking Risky
WSJ: South Could Gain as Detroit Struggles
American Express: The Art of Laying People Off
Wired: What Recession? Bentley Offers Its Most Opulent Car Ever
WSJ: Google, P&G Swap Workers — two different corporate cultures, but both are successful
FT.com: Oil groups expect $40 barrel – CNOOC head
WSJ: Online Retail Spending Slows
WSJ: Ex-MSNBC Chief Launches Consulting Firm
CSMonitor: Auto giants up against bailout fatigue
USA Today: Offended moms get tweet revenge over Motrin ads
Fortune: Wal-Mart may sell iPhone — will it still be as cool?
IDD Magazine.com: Vanguard founder talks about the current market, speculation and how investors need to adjust their expectations — one of the financial gurus I listen too.
NY Times: China’s Auto Industry Presses for a Bailout From Beijing
TechCrunch: Poll: More Than Half Of Twitter Users Would Pay
NationalPost: Military researchers use nanoscaffolding to regrow limbs, organs — this is amazing.
NY Times: Newest Veterans Hit Hard by Economic Crisis
NY Times: Economix: How Many Jobs Depend on the Big Three? — claim that 1 in 10 jobs is based on the auto industry is for all in the car industry, not just GM, Ford or Chrysler.
NY Times: Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs — As newspapers shrink, rival operations have arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow their lead.
CS Monitor: Where should bailout dollars go?
CS Monitor: A lone bright spot in real estate: farmland
USA Today: More hotels go completely smoke-free
NY Times: Why G.M. Needs an Orderly Chapter 11
Yahoo Finance: Florida pension fund loses a quarter its value — Well that makes me feel better. It’s not just me.
CNN: Builders’ confidence sinks to new low
ReadWriteWeb: Murdoch: The Future Of Newspapers Goes Beyond Dead Trees
Publishing 2.0: Hulu to Match YouTube’s Revenue: Ten Observations For The Future of Media
Bloomberg: China Passes Japan as Biggest U.S. Treasuries Holder
graphicdesignr: Newspaper turns off Twitterfeed, gains followers — Other newspapers have had great success using Twitter as a conversation tool — not an RSS feed.
Wired: EPA Coal Decision Levels Playing Field for Wind, Solar
Wired: Study Shows Drivers Feel Free to Ignore Speed Limits — we know they’re set low, so we give ourselves permission to speed.
TechCrunch: Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment