Developers are turning the public cloud into a massive piggybank
By Matt Asay From TechRepublic All public cloud spending estimates significantly undervalue the market, because all miss just how much developers are spending without telling anyone. Head in the cloud Cloud computing is big. It’s so big that major analysts…
Kidnapped girl ‘rescued’ by lions
From BBC A pride of lions has rescued a girl from her kidnappers in rural south-west Ethiopia, according to police. A 12-year-old girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school early in June. A week later,…
Protest March to demand justice for Garner
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life Thousands are expected to respond to the call by Rev. Al Sharpton to rally and march across the Verrazano Bridge on Aug. 23 to protest the illegal choke-hold death of Eric Garner in…
Redford’s out: With audit looming, ex-premier quits politics
By Kelsey Johnson From iPolitics Former Alberta premier Alison Redford has resigned, effective immediately. In an opinion piece published in both the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald Wednesday morning, Redford relinquished her seat in the provincial legislature. “I am…
Legal clients called him Shlomo; U.S. calls him a fraud
By Stephanie Clifford He was a skilled-enough impersonator that he pulled off his scheme for years, talented enough at it that he seemingly could have chosen any identity. A celebrity, or a scholar, perhaps. But the man had a different…
The Editor Speaks: Why the law costs so much
After reading the high costs to this country of outside lawyers the Attorney General’s Chambers and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) have engaged, even though both these offices employ “an army” of high paid lawyers themselves…
These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
By Danielle Douglas From the Washington Post It is a tax trick that has been around for years, but the pace of companies moving their headquarters overseas to lower their tax rate has sped up in the last decade. American…
Ruling against Microsoft has consequences for all US businesses
By Tony Bradley From TechRepublic A US District Court ruling that Microsoft must surrender data will have ramifications for US tech companies trying to do business around the world. Conducting business on a global scale requires navigating different cultures and…
Canada announces $15 million in assistance to Caribbean
By Lincoln Depradine From PRIDE TORONTO, Ontario – Canada is providing $15 million in funding “to enhance public financial management in the Caribbean’’, federal finance minister Joe Oliver has announced. Jamaica is receiving five million of the $15 million that…
Time to move forward
From The Barbados Advocate No more excuses for not lifting your country out of this global financial crisis. This was one of the messages that Founding Partner of Riverwood Capital, Nicholas Brathwaite, sent out during his presentation on “Innovation, Entrepreneurship…
