Disney has now picked up Marvel comics, which seems like a match made in heaven, so long as Mickey Mouse doesn’t start making Cameo appearances in the X-men. Shares have jumped, and the payoff for investors is quite good, citing $30/share dividend payments as well as Disney Shares. The recent blockbusters from Marvel comics such [...]
Andy Warhol’s Michael Jackson portrait painted in 1984 fetched “millions” today at auction. The painting was recently purchased only in May for $278,500, and sold for an undisclosed amount. The estimated selling price was $10 Million. This represents a hell of a return on investment. Heck, makes you wonder if the original buyer had anything [...]
Breaking news on Vancouver Sun’s website tells us that eBay has provided seller information and sales records to the Canada Revenue Agency to assess whether or not sellers have been declaring income that they have been generating from the website. This is pretty big, and it looks like the CRA is going to be sending [...]
Google’s dominating 65% of the search market share is nothing to shake a stick at, and Microsoft and Yahoo have finally ironed out a deal today to work together in tackling the giant that is Google. Combined they have a 28% search market share, which could be easily bolstered and improved with Microsofts new search [...]
Peter King, a US congressman, has publicly vilified Michael Jackson as a child molestor and practically condemns everyone for buying tickets to the funeral. He states that we should be giving US Soldiers in Afghanistan the respect they deserve instead. Obviously there is a bit of a logical fallacy here.. we can pay our respects [...]
Seems like everything’s contaminated these days. Latest victim is Nestle’s Toll House refridgerated cookie dough. The company has issued a recall of the Toll House refridgerated cookie dough. No other products have been contaminated. Like my high school prof said.. the only way to get E. Coli contamination into something, is to somehow get fecal [...]
Earlier this month I reported that there was a possible Gold Heist at the Canadian Mint. It appears now that the third-party audit conducted by Deloitte and Touche has discovered that there is no accounting error that is creating this $15.3 Million Dollar shortfall in Gold. So it may very well be that someone has [...]
Ebay’s sites, both the ebay.com and ebay.ca (and possibly more) websites have been inaccessible for the past 30 minutes. Has ebay again been hacked? Inquiring minds would like to know!
TMZ says so… but all other news sources are said to be quoting TMZ. How reliable is the information? Its not April 1st today. First Farrah, now Michael. Michael Jackson is/was a pop icon and still the King of Pop. EDIT: Obviously everyone now knows that Michael Jackson has indeed passed. Rest in Peace, Michael. [...]
Rest in Peace, Farrah. Though you were before my time, you were many a schoolboy’s fantasy, and worthy as a legendary pin-up girl and all-round sexy hottie. Here is a classic Farrah Fawcett shot with the nipple stag and everything.