Dec 22

Up first, the Treasury Department may be ordered to redesign U-S money. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U-S discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that amounts can only be distinguished between visually. Some possible changes include making various sized bills or printing the bills with raised markings. While the U-S says that most of the blind have adapted: some asking help from store workers, using credit cards and folding certain corners of bills, the federal appeals court says the U-S must move to make sufficient bill improvements for the blind, especially as it would come as a relatively small cost. This week’s ruling upheld a 2006 lower court ruling.

And one man pays a record high-price of 11-million-dollars… for a car. …..

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Jul 23

CBS plans on competing with the extremely popular Online video site Hulu with the relaunch of TV.Com. CBS purchased the domain from Cnet for 1.85 billion dollars, and it was originally a "water cooler site" where the latest TV shows were discussed by writers and fans. But CBS head Les Moonves revealed that the new TV.Com will be much more ambitious when he said "we think TV.Com will become the destination, or certainly one of the leading destinations, for anybody who wants to watch TV shows or have a community around TV shows, see clips, play games, etc.

A gigantically popular social networking site is brought down to Earth as Facebook has been given an honest valuation of about 2 billion dollars, a much more realistic number than when it was valued at 15 billion dollars last Fall. The massively popular social networking site is not publicly traded, but the casual market for shares has valued them at 2.50 to 4 dollars each.

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