Posted 12/29/08 at 09:23:43 PM by Nathan Grayson

Pockets still belching out quarters after a colossal Christmas cash feast? Looking to really score some bang for your newly acquired buck? Well, right after buying MPC subscriptions for a few friends, family members or neighbors (MPC makes for an amazing house-warming gift!), why not take a quick peek at Steam’s wall-to-wall sales extravaganza?

Should words like “extravaganza” not be enough to persuade you, here are a few more that might do the trick: BioShock for $4.99, Team Fortress 2 for $9.99, Company of Heroes for $14.99 and Left 4 Dead for $37.49.
 
The sales’s price tag-pulverizing kryptonite applies to all games currently available on Steam, but only until January 2nd. So get your credit card started on its New Year’s workout regimen early; the clock’s ticking.
 
So then, readers, what’re ya buyin’?

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Posted 10/03/08 at 06:29:30 PM by Pulkit Chandna

At first glance, Bankaholic.com appears to be an ordinary blog that betrays not even the slightest hint of its true worth. The Wordpress-based blog has been just bought by Bankrate, a financial information and service website, for an unbelievable amount of $15 million. Its solitary employee John Wu is going to stay aboard for a while.

Although the blog is not insanely popular, it ranks well on search engines for several high-paying keywords. This acquisition will ensure that there is no dearth of get-rich-from-blogging literature that is strewn across the internet.

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Posted 09/10/08 at 12:40:47 AM by Pulkit Chandna

Dell’s ongoing financial travails and tribulation have driven it to a very drastic step of disposing off factories. It plans to sell most of its factories within the next year and a half in order to curb costs. The possibility of Dell selling or closing all of its plants also can not be ruled out, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Asian contract manufacturers are the most likely buyers of Dell’s factories.

The eventual buyers of its plants might also be entrusted with the task of manufacturing Dell products. However, the second largest PC manufacturer in the world might find it difficult to attract Asian buyers towards its U.S factories that have high operational costs due to the steep cost of labor.

Dell is undergoing metamorphic changes (read strategical): it has mobilized its financial resources towards building a stronger retail presence. Furthermore, it is betting big on cloud computing.

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