Matt Drudge
The No. 1 source of referral traffic to major news sites in the United States is Google. Google provides approximately 30% of the traffic to these sites.
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Health Insurers Make Huge Profits While Many Americans Postpone Care
Health insurers propose double-digit increases in their rates, citing a need for protection against any sudden uptick in demand once people have more money to spend on their health.
Major health insurers in the U.S. are heading into a third year of record profits. Their earnings have been enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans. Many who are postponing or forgoing medical care.
‘Made in America’ Making a Comeback: Study
2015 global manufacturers will view the U.S. as equal to if not better-than China.
In March, U.S. exports hit a record $173 billion, up 15% from a year-ago and 37% from 2009. According to a new study from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the good times for “Made in America” are just getting started. (video)
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Is Google Running Low on Ads?
Google’s filler ads when they are out of inventory
If you are a avid reader of blogs like I am, you have probably started seeing an increase in the number ad blocks inviting people to advertise on Google. These “filler ads” show up for a number of reasons such as bringing in more advertisers. But more often, it would appear, its because the giant ad company is out of inventory. Here is what we found out from some of our contacts within the company.
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Predictions for money, currencies and payments
In the future, paper money may be displaced with digital points of a vendor.
Karl Dakin: The subject of how we will be paid and make payments in the future was presented at the DaVinci Institute’s Night with a Futurist on Monday night. The presentations covered potentially major changes in the way we conduct business and interact as a society as technological advances in mobile computing enable new ways of exchanging things of value.
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Visa Plans to Launch Digital Wallet for Banks in the U.S.
The “digital wallet” will store the banks’ customers’ credit and debit card account information, both for Visa cards and other cards.
The world’s largest credit and debit card processing network, Visa Inc, is building a digital wallet that people can use to pay for things online or with their phones instead of with traditional cards.
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Billions in Losses Reported By the Postal Service
Postal Service reports more that $2 billion in losses.
The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to lose money, reporting a loss Tuesday of more than $2 billion over the first three months of the year and warning it could be forced to default on federal payments.
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U.S. Facing Spectrum Crisis – If Nothing is Done Your Smartphone May be Useless by 2013
The U.S. is running out of wireless spectrum.
The United States is facing an imminent spectrum crisis in which exploding demand from smartphones will soon overwhelm the nation’s wireless capacit, according to the FCC.
Eight Fundamental Drivers Controlling Our Future
Futurist Thomas Frey: As a futurist I spend much of my time searching for failure points. Why failure points? Because they are the unforgiving anchors around which society changes directions.
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U.S. Manufacturers Scramble to Find Enough Highly Paid Skilled Workers
Highly paid skilled manufacturing workers scarce.
Long known for layoffs and shipping jobs overseas, U.S. manufacturing companies, now find themselves in a very different position: scrambling for scarce talent at home.
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Here Comes Internet Boom 2.0
Groupon’s headquarters in the former Montgomery Wards’ catalog warehouse.
The prospect of finding the next Facebook, Groupon or Twitter is driving the biggest rush of venture capital into the Internet start-up arena since dot-com mania first boomed and then fizzled more than a decade ago.
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Swiss Authorities Freeze Bank Accounts Belonging to Russian Tax Officials
A group of Russian tax officials is alleged to have helped steal $230m (£140m) from the Russian state in an elaborate tax fraud.
Authorities in Switzerland are reported to have frozen dozens of bank accounts belonging to Russian tax officials. This is part of a criminal investigation into claims that the funds on them are derived from the biggest tax fraud in Russian history. The Swiss authorities began investigating after UK investment fund Hermitage filed a complaint against a group of Russian tax officials it alleged had helped steal $230m (£140m) from the Russian state in an elaborate tax fraud.
