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		<title>Google is spelled wrong &#8211; 11th birthday celebration</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/09/google-is-spelled-wrong-11th-birthday-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have visited Google&#8217;s homepage today, you probably noticed that it has been spelled wrong. Most people will probably think that it is a mistake but it is not. Why is Google spelled wrong? Today&#8217;s new logo is spelled &#8220;Googlle&#8221; with two &#8220;l&#8221;s. Why does Google have two &#8220;l&#8221;s? ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/11th_birthday.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-490 alignleft" title="11th_birthday" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/11th_birthday.gif" alt="11th_birthday" width="291" height="110" /></a>If you have visited Google&#8217;s homepage today, you probably noticed that it has been spelled wrong. Most people will probably think that it is a mistake but it is not. <strong>Why is Google spelled wrong?</strong> Today&#8217;s new logo is spelled &#8220;<strong>Googlle</strong>&#8221; with two &#8220;l&#8221;s. Why does Google have two &#8220;l&#8221;s? The answer is that today is Google&#8217;s 11th birthday and they are celebrating. They played around with their logo a little to make the &#8220;l&#8221;s seem like 11. However this has confused several people who are now searching the Internet to find out the reason.</p>
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<p>Google has achieved a lot in the last 11 years. The site which was formerly known as BackRub is now the most famous site and search engine in the world. Also, it is not just a search engine anymore. It offers so many more services like Google Maps, Mail, Chrome, Earth etc.</p>
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		<title>Morgan Stanley CEO Mack steps down, Gorman takes over</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Executive of Morgan Stanley, Mack, will be resigning and James Gorman will be taking his place soon. Mack will still stay with Morgan Stanley as the chairman.
The bank took a lot of chances under Mack by betting more money than they actually had. This helped them a lot ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/james-morgan.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-469 alignleft" title="james-morgan" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/james-morgan-300x221.jpg" alt="james-morgan" width="235" height="174" /></a>The Chief Executive of <strong>Morgan Stanley</strong>, Mack, will be resigning and James Gorman will be taking his place soon. Mack will still stay with Morgan Stanley as the chairman.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">The bank took a lot of chances under Mack by betting more money than they actually had. This helped them a lot previously and also saved them from collapsing in 2008. However, in the second quarter, the bank reported a loss of $1.26 billion while other banks reported better results.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Gorman, who is thirteen years younger than Mack, looks over Morgan Stanley’s retail brokerage business.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">&#8220;All these large financial institutions are going to replace their head honchos with someone with a background in a business with a more consistent, predictable revenue stream &#8212; <strong>commercial banking, retail brokerage, or asset management</strong>,&#8221; said Bill Fitzpatrick.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Gorman will be taking his new position on January 1, 2010.</p>
<p>Need some quick cash? Stop by MyPaydayLOanCash.com for an <a href="http://www.mypaydayloancash.com/">instant online payday loan</a> today!</p>
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		<title>Financing your new business</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/09/financing-your-new-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting a business is not a child’s play and we are all aware of that but still a lot of individuals set out to start their own business but due to lack of careful planning, they end up failing. Before taking any actions, one should always have a game plan. ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/financing.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-459 alignleft" title="financing" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/financing.jpg" alt="financing" width="212" height="212" /></a><strong>Starting a business</strong> is not a child’s play and we are all aware of that but still a lot of individuals set out to start their own business but due to lack of careful planning, they end up failing. Before taking any actions, one should always have a game plan. Regardless of how small your business is, you need to have a set of goals and ways of accomplishing them. This is important. Having goals is not enough and you should be aware of that. If you do not have proper resources and funding, you have no way of accomplishing your goals. Every kind of a business requires some <strong>capital investment</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">A lot of times, individuals and groups who want to start their own business estimate how much investment they would need to make. Sometimes they have the invest money while most of the times they need to ask others such as friends, family, <a href="http://www.elastic.com" target="_blank">loan lenders</a> etc. Loan lenders seem to be very common since it is becoming very easy these days to get money from loan. But make sure you know that you will be able to pay that money back with the interest. Elastic is a trusted lender that can provide you immediate cash up to $500 within 24 hours. It is very easy to apply and has affordable pricing.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">While a lot of people are successful at estimating the <strong>investment money</strong>, they fail to take into account the expenses that might occur once the business starts. This is a major problem and a major reason for businesses collapsing. Thus, make sure that before you start your business, you take into consideration all the <strong>financial problems</strong> that you might face in future. The more you plan, the better it is.</p>
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		<title>Investing in bonds a good option in recession</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/09/investing-in-bonds-a-good-option-in-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In times when money seems to be running out, we only wish that we had saved parts of our incomes before so that we could use them now. But it is never too late to take a positive action. You can always start securing your future. Things would have been ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bonds.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-448 alignleft" title="bonds" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bonds-300x300.jpg" alt="bonds" width="182" height="182" /></a>In times when money seems to be running out, we only wish that we had saved parts of our incomes before so that we could use them now. But it is never too late to take a positive action. You can always start securing your future. Things would have been easier for you now if you had done that before but we need to forget that and focus on our future. Take some actions to protect your and your family’s future. There are many things in life that you need to save for and there are numerous ways to do that too. One of them is <strong>investing in bonds</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Investment advisors always recommend you to have a diverse portfolio when it comes to saving. You can <a href="http://www.holr.net/" target="_blank">invest in bonds</a>, stocks and have cash. Investing in bonds will provide you with <strong>extra money</strong> through interests semiannually. Bonds are a great way to get some extra cash on a regular basis. They can be source of the boost that we sometimes need when we are in any financial trouble. A lot of people prefer bonds over stocks as the risk involved is very low compared to stocks. You do not have to worry that much with bonds as you have to with stocks.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Thus, if you want to <strong>secure your future</strong>, I suggest that you learn a lesson from this recession and invest in bonds.</p>
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		<title>Three more banks fail in America &#8211; raising the total to 84</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/08/three-more-banks-fail-in-america-raising-the-total-to-84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three more banks failed in America yesterday in California, Maryland and Minnesota on Saturday causing the total count of failed banks in 2009 to rise to 84. America is currently facing the worst crisis since the Great Depression.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) took control of the three banks: Affinity Bank ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wall-street-closed.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-428 alignleft" title="wall-street-closed" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wall-street-closed-300x213.jpg" alt="wall-street-closed" width="268" height="191" /></a>Three more <strong>banks failed in America</strong> yesterday in California, Maryland and Minnesota on Saturday causing the total count of failed banks in 2009 to rise to 84. America is currently facing the worst crisis since the Great Depression.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;"><strong>Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.</strong> (FDIC) took control of the three banks: Affinity Bank of Ventura (California), Bradford Bank of Baltimore (Maryland) and Mainstreet Bank of Lake Forest (Minnesota).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">It is evident that regulators seem to be closing bank at a very fast pace and we can expect some more closures as losses from <strong>real-estate debt</strong> pile up.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">The <strong>deposits</strong> of the three banks that failed will be assumed by three different banks. Pacific Western Bank of San Diego will assume deposits of Affinity Bank, Central Bank of Stillwater will assume deposits of Mainstreet Bank and Manufacturers &amp; Traders Trust Co. of Buffalo will assume Bradford Bank.</p>
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		<title>Employers looking to hire next year</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/08/employers-looking-to-hire-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last few disastrous months, things might finally get better in future. According to a new poll, it seems like employers will initiate hiring next year. Approximately, 14.5 million U.S. workers are unemployed currently.
Fifty percent of the employers from the poll said that they will hire employees for full-time position ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/jobs.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-410 alignleft" title="jobs" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/jobs-300x225.jpg" alt="jobs" width="227" height="171" /></a>After last few disastrous months, things might finally get better in future. According to a new poll, it seems like employers will initiate hiring next year. Approximately, 14.5 million U.S. workers are <strong>unemployed</strong> currently.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Fifty percent of the employers from the poll said that they will hire employees for <strong>full-time position</strong> in the next 12 months. Four out of ten employers will hire contract or project works and another four out of ten will hire part-time workers. These results are from a survey conducted for Robert Half International and CareerBuilder.com.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Despite the fact that there is so much competition for limited number of jobs, six out of ten employers agreed that they are open to negotiate with qualified applicants for higher pay.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Also, a lot of employers have complained that most of the resumes they receive and not satisfying. Forty four percent of the resumes are from unqualified candidates.</p>
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		<title>Twitter down due to Denial of Service (Dos) attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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If you are a Twitter addict, you may have noticed that Twitter was down today (Thursday) morning. The reason for downtime was a DoS (Denial of Service) attack.

A DoS attack consists of sending more amount of traffic to a website or server than it can handle. Usually, such attacks are ...]]></description>
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<p>If you are a <strong>Twitter</strong> addict, you may have noticed that Twitter was down today (Thursday) morning. The reason for <strong>downtime</strong> was a DoS (<strong>Denial of Service</strong>) attack.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">A <strong>DoS attack</strong> consists of sending more amount of traffic to a website or server than it can handle. Usually, such attacks are executed from multiple computers via malware.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog post, “Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are defen</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">ding against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Twitter was unavailable to users from 9:15 am EDT on Thursday for around two and half hours. Twitter’s last downtime was on May 30, 2009 which was caused by a software error.</p>
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		<title>CIT Group avoids bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A deal was struck between the directors of CIT Group and its important bondholders to avoid bankruptcy. CIT Group is a major lender to small businesses. Presently, CIT is in tremendous amount of debt and hopefully, this deal will provide them with some time to manage their business model.
CIT Group ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/adg_pc0240600.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-360 alignleft" title="CIT Group" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/adg_pc0240600-300x205.jpg" alt="CIT Group" width="280" height="192" /></a>A deal was struck between the directors of <strong>CIT Group</strong> and its important bondholders to <strong>avoid bankruptcy</strong>. CIT Group is a major lender to small businesses. Presently, CIT is in tremendous amount of debt and hopefully, this deal will provide them with some time to manage their business model.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">CIT Group had already planned to file for bankruptcy by Monday if no capital could be squeezed from the investors.<br />
The deal would provide CIT with $3 billion from its bondholders at the rate of 10.5%.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">CIT Group is a 101 years old company. For some time, regulators were confused whether to save it from going bankrupt or not. The final decision was made after considering the fact that CIT Group helps several small and midsized businesses and poses no threat to the global financial system.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Now that CIT Group has been given some time, let’s see what it does with it.</p>
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		<title>GE announces 1,200 new jobs in Michigan</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/06/ge-announces-1200-new-jobs-in-michigan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays when jobs are being cut in every single sector, GE will be creating new jobs. GE’s CEO and chairman announced yesterday that GE will be creating 1,200 more jobs in Michigan. GE is building a center for manufacturing technology. Worth $100-million.
Michiganders can start applying for jobs next week. According ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ge-aviation.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-334" title="GE logo" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ge-aviation-300x299.jpg" alt="GE logo" width="169" height="169" /></a>Nowadays when jobs are being cut in every single sector, GE will be creating new jobs. GE’s CEO and chairman announced yesterday that GE will be creating 1,200 more jobs in Michigan. GE is building a center for manufacturing technology. Worth $100-million.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Michiganders can start applying for jobs next week. According to the governor, Jennifer Granholm, the new jobs will pay approximately $100,000 per year.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Immelt said that Michigan was picked over other places as the appropriate location for the technology manufacturing center due to the skilled local talent.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Immelt said in a news conference at Townsend Hotel, “The University of Michigan is one of the biggest feeders into the GE system. We&#8217;ve been long believers in the quality education of the state &#8230; . We can tap into some of the great labor resources that are already existing in the state.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">The governor is delighted by this as it will help her in her campaign which was not going very well before due to the collapsing auto industry.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">According to Immelt, the center will start operating at the end of this year.</p>
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		<title>American Airlines cuts 1,600 jobs</title>
		<link>http://crackingfinance.com/2009/06/american-airlines-cuts-1600-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning, a spokesman from American Airlines Inc revealed that 1600 jobs will soon be cut.
American Airlines, which is a part of Fort Worth, will cut 1,200 flight attendant positions, 300 airport services positions, 50 cargo service positions and 50 others. Cuts for flight attendant positions will mainly be ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/americanairlines.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-311" title="american airlines" src="http://crackingfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/americanairlines-300x218.jpg" alt="american airlines" width="233" height="173" /></a>On Friday morning, a spokesman from <strong>American Airlines Inc</strong> revealed that <strong>1600 jobs </strong>will soon be cut.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">American Airlines, which is a part of Fort Worth, will cut 1,200 flight attendant positions, 300 airport services positions, 50 cargo service positions and 50 others. Cuts for flight attendant positions will mainly be made on seniority basis but exit packages are also being offered to employees who may want to exit voluntarily for an early retirement.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Previously, American Airlines had also announced 40 <strong>job cuts</strong> in its Kansas maintenance facility.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">A letter sent to the American Airlines employees by Jeff Brundage, senior vice president of human resources, on Thursday said, “These reductions come as a result of our efforts to &#8216;right size&#8217; our operation and respond to the weaker demand for travel by reducing our schedule, including seasonal changes, and addressing lower-than-expected attrition.”</p>
<p style="text-align:left;padding-top:1em;">Additionally, there will be more cuts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.</p>
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