Student loans are about to get tougher
Parents will have to navigate unfamiliar and difficult terrain when it comes time to pay for college this year, with student loan companies in turmoil and banks tightening their standards and raising rates on other types of borrowing.

During the first three months of the year, only five companies backed by venture capital investors went public on Wall Street, the National Venture Capital Association said last week. That is down from 31 in the fourth quarter of last year, and is roughly the same level as at the nadir of the dot-com bust.

 
Informa Telecoms & Media forecasts that by 2013, US online TV and video services will generate revenues of $7.9 billion.
In 2007, the market was already worth over $1 billion and by 2008, that figure will leap to $4.7 billion.

While the housing slump has come to dominate American presidential debates and has sent Wall Street into a tailspin, the consequences of millions of foreclosures across the United States are also being felt far overseas. Nowhere is that more true than in Switzerland, the serene land of snowy peaks, ice-cold lakes and staid banks long […]

Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.