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The yellow taxicabs of NYC aren't going green anytime soon. A federal judge just blocked a city administration plan to require the owners and operators of yellow taxicabs to switch to more fuel-efficient hybrids.

A teenager may be behind a bogus story posted on CNN's public-journalism Web site earlier this month that said Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and was being rushed to the hospital.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission immediately launched an investigation into the false story posted by "Johntw" on CNN's iReport.com after the news caused Apple's stock to plunge nearly six percent that day, from $106.50 to $94.65.

The Microsoft-Yahoo circus is open for business again. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday said a Yahoo acquisition would still make sense for both companies. He spoke at the Gartner technology conference in Orlando, Fla.

While Ballmer insisted that Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo and is not currently holding any discussions with the search giant, he also said the companies could consider a partnership on search engines in the future.

I've wondered about for a while whether the mathematical techniques for assessing risk alter the structure of risk and risk taking behavior itself, i.e, whether the measurement itself is exogenous to what is being measured.  Taleb suggests that this may be the case in this wider discussion of the origins of the suprime crisis with Bloomberg.

I've wondered about for a while whether the mathematical techniques for assessing risk alter the structure of risk and risk taking behavior itself, i.e, whether the act of measurement itself is not exogenous to what is being measured.  Taleb suggests that this may be the case in this wider discussion of the origins of the suprime crisis with Bloomberg.

The senate has just passed what could end up being some of the most important legislation to the future of our country of the decade. No, I'm not talking about buying up $700 B of questionable mortgage assets...I'm talking about an actual, feasible, renewable energy package.
The package, which will cost around $17 B over ten years will stimulate growth in a number of clean tech sectors.

In a stunning example of a journalistic screwup, financial news wire service Bloomberg published Steve Jobs' obituary Wednesday. The Apple cofounder and CEO is very much alive.

It's common procedure for news organizations to pre-write obituaries for politicians, sports figures and titans of business, but the premature release of Jobs' obituary is stunning because Jobs has been struggling with pancreatic cancer.

Typically, as California goes, so goes the nation. But the same often holds true with New York. Here is one news item rapidly making the rounds on the clean tech sites that I hope will demonstrate New York’s influence.

Following a Federal Communications Commission ruling that Comcast blocked Internet traffic and ordering the company to submit a compliance plan about how it intends to stop "discriminatory management practices," Comcast is planning a new traffic-managing system.

Called Fair Share, the system is intended to limit the heaviest Internet users over short periods of time.

'Time-Out' Mechanism

So it looks like the world's cheapest car (the Tata Nano) could soon be the world's cheapest electric car as well.
The price of the Nano is just above $2,500 and Tata's chairman Ratan Tata says he expects demand to exceed supply. Tata's plant in the city of Singur in the state of West Bengal will eventually have the capacity to make 350,000 Nanos a year.