Remote Robotic Surgery:Outsourced to Bangalore?
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Thanks to an anonymous CD reader for this comment: "As remote controlled robots are utilized more and more to do operations it is conceivable that one day a surgeon in Bangalore, India will perform operations on patients located in a Walmart ...
Health Care: From Canada’s #3 City to US’s #356
Monday, May 31st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Chances of having identical quadruplets: 1 in 13 million. Chances of having 4 neonatal intensive-care beds available in Canada's 3rd largest city: Not very good. Chances of having 4 neonatal intensive-care beds available in America's 356th largest city: Excellent. From today's ...
Let a 1,000 Millionaires Bloom in China, And U.S.
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »BEIJING -- China has the world's fifth largest number of households with more than $1 million in liquid assets, trailing only the U.S., Japan, Britain and Germany, said a report released by the Boston Consulting Group. There were 310,000 Chinese ...
What About Outsourcing TO The US: INSOURCING
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The International Organization for International Investment (OFII) recently released the “Insourcing 50” list of the 50 largest U.S.-based subsidiaries of foreign-headquartered companies. Topping the list are BP Global (UK), Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands), Toyota (Japan), HSBC (UK), and Honda (Japan). According ...
Forget Ethanol, What About Canada’s Oil-Sands?
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »At a time when saying anything good about fossil fuels is like declaring war on the environment, it may seem like wishful thinking to press for an expansion of U.S. oil refining capacity. Yet it is precisely this sort of ...
N.J. Has Highest % of Millionaires, Michigan Is #14
Friday, May 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Phoenix Affluent Marketing Service announced today that New Jersey has become the state with the largest percent of millionaires to total households. Ranked second past two years, New Jersey vaulted past Hawaii, which fell to fourth in the 2007 ...
What a Country: The Number of Millionaire Households Has Almost Doubled In 5 Years
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »According to Phoenix Marketing International, the number of millionaire households in the U.S. has almost doubled over the last four years, from 3.3 million in 2003 to almost 6 million millionaire households in 2007 (see chart above, click to ...
TelaDoc Market Solution: The Doctors Is Always In
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Health care entrepreneurs working outside the traditional health insurance payment system are using telephone, e-mail, text messaging and innovative computer software to make medical care more accessible and convenient for patients, according to a new study by the National ...
Big Oil Is Not the Problem, It’s Big Government
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Congressional ignorance of basic laws of supply and demand is at once bizarre, breathtaking and frightening. For example, in a speech delivered by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer on May 13, he urged the U.S. to force Saudi Arabia ...
Outsourcing E-Mail to Google: Free vs. $450,000
Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Arizona State University was the first major university to outsource its e-mail to Google in October 2006, and has seen over $1 million in savings. Iowa State University is now the latest major university considering whether to outsource the university's e-mail ...
