Apple Posts $1.21 Billion Profit for Q2 2009. The weak economy is hurting Mac sales to professional and educational customers, but consumer sales and the iPhone and iPod touch have lifted Apple to another impressive financial quarter. Ending the second quarter of 2009, Apple reported a $1.21 billion profit on revenue of $8.16 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share (those…
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Australia’s $650 million Community Infrastructure Grants. This has come out of the blue - $650 million Jobs Fund announced by the Rudd Government to support local jobs, build skills and improve facilities in local communities. It is part of the Rudd GovernmentŴ
Jobs safe after Pontiac dumped: Holden. CAR maker Holden will lose one of its biggest export models with a move by United States parent company General Motors to dump the Pontiac brand. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]
Andrew Leigh points to some very interesting work on attitudes to redistribution. Who wants more rungs on the ladder of opportunity?. For anyone interested in understanding attitudes about redistribution, a new working paper from Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano titled Preferences for Redistribution is a must-read. Some snippets.We start our analysis by examining the individual determinants of preferences for redistribution…
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Low-paid workers, changing patterns of work and life, and participation in VET. This item includes an audio recording of an interview with researcher Barbara Pocock; the accompanying interview transcript; and the occasional paper itself. In this interview, Steve Davis talks with researcher Barbara Pocock about her paper, 'Low-paid workers, changing patterns of work and life, and participation in vocational education…
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On a potentially amazing resource. I don't usually simply plug other sites, but one cannot but admire the chutzpah of this site;"Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real…
Global warming leaving its mark on polar bears.. Potentially fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies. As the sea ice shrinks, so are the polar bears -- they're not growing as big as they used to. [Environmental Health News]