Dell plans to sell computer factories — report

The Tricks of the ETF Trade Wall Street Journal - 7 hours ago With the iShares fund, which trades about eight million shares a day, trading costs are closer to two cents. A spokeswoman for Barclays PLC’s iShares group ... ... more

Back in October, Martin Mayer described his five favorite books on financial meltdowns to the Wall Street Journal. One that has since remained timely: Irvine H. Sprague’s Bailout (Basic Books, 1986). Mayer told the Journal: “Bailout is a superbly honest first-person account of the big bank traumas of the 1980s, written by a long-term director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Irvine H. Sprague lived through it all – the collapse of Commonwealth Bank of Detroit, First Pen... more

Morgan Stanley (MS) is down to its last $36 billion - a bit more than most of us have sloshing around in our checking accounts but a good deal less than the $800 billion or so the company had on hand before the credit crunch.Morgan converted to a bank holding company 2 months ago and is currently reviewing a number of ways to boost deposits The Wall Street Journal reports.Morgan Stanley may acquire some regional banks including a few with a customer base that overlaps its current brokerage ... more

Great news! Heads up that the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack sponsored by NVIDIA will be available worldwide for our PC players next week on June 5th! NVIDIA is making it possible for PC players to download the map pack for Free on the PC thanks to their sponsorship. In addition, expect to see quite a few promotions popping up leading up to the launch of the map packs on the 5th and beyond. I know NVIDIA has a lot of great things planned for PC users in addition to maps be... more

Hey, me and my friend are going to be making some COD4 videos, this morning I just finished our introduction: YouTube - Breakfast Cereal Productions... ... more

Filed under: Cellphones , Digital Cameras Look, we’re just as down on crazy Japanese stereotypes as the next guy. We watched Lost in Translation . We’re with it . We know it’s not all cosplay and weird game shows (but seriously, that human Tetris one? Awesome) and people dressing up as vending machines (pictured). That said, this story isn’t doing Japan any favors. A homeless woman was recently arrested in Tokyo after living undetected in a ... more

Fears of a devastating flood from a lake formed by last month’s Sichuan earthquake eased on Sunday after hundreds of soldiers and engineers successfully completed a channel to drain away the rising water. More... ... more