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Aug 15th 2007 From Economist.comA software firm goes to market AP  TIME to dust off the dotcom party hats again? Investors drove up shares in VMware, a Silicon Valley software-maker, by 76% on its first day of trading on Tuesday August 14th. Diane Greene (in our picture, being shown around…

2007 Mitsubishi Outlander LS By NICK KURCZEWSKI TESTED: 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander LS WHAT IS IT? Compact crossover sport utility wagon. HOW MUCH? Base ES, $21,995; LS as tested, $26,135. WHAT DRIVES IT? 3-liter V-6; six-speed automatic; all-wheel drive. (Front drive also available.) IS…

Tom Strattman for The New York Times $20,000 A MONTH By leasing his Bugatti, Timothy Durham deferred paying taxes. By PATRICK McGEEHAN WERE F. Scott Fitzgerald alive today, he might be surprised to learn that the very rich are not always so different from you and me, at least in how…

Vámosi Gergő 2007. 08. 15., 8:45Utolsó módosítás: 2007. 08. 15., 8:46eszközök: Azt szeretné a főváros, hogy wifizni lehessen egész Pesten. A móka 4-5 milliárdba kerülne, amit a rendszert kiépítő cégekkel fizettetnének meg. Ők fizetős felhasználókban reménykedhetnek, mi…

Aug 14th 2007 From Economist.comDon't hold your breath waiting for one to be invented Getty Images  SPENDING time at London’s Heathrow airport in August is generally a miserable experience. So the protesters who are passing several days there in order to make a point might be considered…

By STEVE LOHR In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation’s health care. By combining better Internet…

Aug 9th 2007 From The Economist print editionProbably—but not in the way many foreigners (and some Americans) hope Getty Images  FOR George Bush, the presidency is becoming a tragic tale of unintended consequences. In foreign policy, the man who sought to transform Iraq, the Middle East…