After reading about how the global financial meltdown is affecting Iceland and causing an unprecedented banking failure that has driven the UK into threatening to take legal action against Iceland to recover…

Wachovia pulled out of a major college funding program, leaving many post-secondary students scrambling. Wachovia’s merger with Wells Fargo could end up resulting in decreased educational funding, specially,…

Herman Miller, the company that designed the iconic Aeron Chair, is back with a new ergonomic desk chair called Embody.

The chair is certified to be more comfortable than other office chairs. Dozens…

The 2010 Vancouver Olympics tickets won’t sell near as much as those for the Beijing games this summer much due to the panic surrounding the credit crunch.

The financial crisis ravaged Canadian tourism…

Follow Me Project Helsinki is tracking seven people LIVE as they wander around Finland’s capital.

Follow Me Project Helsinki is an interesting project to demonstrate how high tech outdoor media makes…

By now we’re used to seeing vulgarity on news stands, but what if the Economist published something as profane as this spoof magazine cover? The mock September 27, 2008 issue reads nothing more than “Oh…

Nordstrom wants you to stay in their store and shop for every member of the family, and these days, a lot of Americana’s include their pets as kin. With the credit crunch looming, this Christmas will be…

If you are a tiny desert city surrounded by the exploding architectural gems of Dubai and capital city Abu Dhabi, what do you do? You go big.

Only 250,000 people live in Ras Al Khaimah, but they plan…

Fantasy car shopping may be taking over Main Street as Wall Street continues to drive the car market into a funk.

September was brutal for the luxury car market, but AutoTrader.com reported that their…

Bon Bon Kakku is a clever online marketplace for textile artists to upload images of their fabrics to be viewed and rated; the designs with the highest votes are sold on the site. Bon Bon Kakku expands…

The annual IMEA (Innovation Music and Entertainment Awards) are held at the Popkomm in Berlin. The whole music industry is looking for new ways to cover the financial damage caused by illegal music downloads.…

From AIG and Wachovia to WaMu, we all knew that the economy is in bad shape. But you know things with the economy are going really really bad when the national debt clock maxes out and requires being replaced…

The news is enough to send heart palpitations to bloggers and inspire non-bloggers to set up their first blogs. PaidContent just reported that a WordPress blog written and owned by a single blogger, Johns…

Electronics giant Best Buy has just opened a store in Aurora, Colorado that takes aim at a relatively unaddressed slice of the market--women. Best Buy polled their in-house Women’s Leadership Forum, also…

Eat your way to more cash and a better world. Table Tucker is pioneering a brand new recipe format for the time-poor. This little cookbook will organise dinner 52 weeks of the year, save you thousands…

The Swiss Picture Bank is a new service that stores your digital pictures for up to 99 years. The bank gives you a guarantee that they will save your digital pictures for 3 cents per 30 years.

The SwissPictureBank.com…

With the world’s financial system in turmoil and many companies in trouble, there is one business currently thriving in San Diego and that is Sarah’s Smash Shack. Patrons can go there and break crockery,…

An English Real Estate Agency has come up with a creative way to ‘encourage’ renter’s to cough up their rent money when they fall behind on their payments.

In an effort to embarrass tenants into paying…

Citizenshipper is a peer-to-peer site that aims to streamline the shipping process. When you need to send a package or letter, shipping costs can add up quickly. Citizenshipper connects people who need…