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Now that everyone is so obsessed with their credit reports and FICO scores, credit monitoring services have popped up everywhere. For a modest recurring fee–one that easily adds up to over $100 a year–you can have a company constantly watch your credit report and alert you of any changes in it, so you can always be on top of your creditworthiness. But should you bother? The consumer director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups federation (U.S. PIRG) tells BusinessWeek that credit monitoring is a “protection racket” that turns people into “financial hypochondriacs… who are scared of their own financial shadows.”

Naturally, the people who work at credit monitoring companies disagree, pointing out that when you pull a credit report, it’s technically no longer accurate after one day (assuming it’s accurate to begin with), and that a credit monitoring service can alert you almost immediately if you’re a victim of identity theft.

On the other hand, the U.S. PIRG director notes that if you really need to always know your credit history, it would be cheaper to just pay for credit reports several times a year:

Mierzwinski says nobody needs ongoing credit monitoring. He advises anyone applying for a mortgage to audit their three credit reports several months before closing on a home to make sure they know what’s on them and to clear up inaccuracies that could affect their mortgage rate. For those who want to look at their credit reports more often, it’s cheaper to buy once or twice a year than to pay monthly credit-monitoring fees because the reports cost only $8 to $15, he says. Mierzwinski disapproves of the 7-day trial period companies typically offer because most commercial offers give consumers 30 days to cancel purchases.

Remember that you can always get three free credit reports every 12 months–one each from Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax–only at annualcreditreport.com.

“Monitoring Sites Draw Credit ‘Hypochondriacs’” [BusinessWeek]

We’re live in San Francisco, where Microsoft has at long last unveiled the project previously known around the Internets as “Pink”, which they’ve now given the name “Kin”.

So what is Kin? Much like the rumor mill had projected, it’s two different social-network oriented phones: Kin 1, and Kin 2 (How very Seuss of them). Kin 1 is the phone previously known as “Turtle”, a little palm (as in the body part, not the company) sized portrait QWERTY slider with a 5 megapixel camera. Kin 2 was previously known amongst the whisperers as “Pure”, and is a landscape QWERTY slider with an 8 megapixel camera. Both phones are launching exclusively on Verizon in May.

Pictures incoming as soon as possible. Read on for all the details we’ve got so far.

The phones are very much the culmination of Microsoft’s purchase of Danger in 2008. According to three reps we asked, they are not based on Windows Phone 7, and instead use a Silverlight-based platform built from the ground up for these devices. They’re not exactly what we’d call “smartphones” – and Microsoft’s not pitching them as such. There’s no application store as far as we’ve seen. As we predicted back in October, it appears to be lacking a handful of features that folks might expect, including instant messaging and calendar functionality. Battery life “gets you through a weekend” according to a project lead.

The entire platform focuses around two features: The Loop, and The Spot. “The Loop” is your 3 pane homescreen: one pane is your news/social feed, one is your contacts page, and the last is where you access things like the phone and the browser. At the moment, the social “top contacts” supports updates from Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Twitter. “The Spot” is a small circle at the bottom of the screen which you use to share content with your social network; you drag things from your feed (or the browser, texts, etc) into “The Spot”, and then drag over which contacts/networks you want to share that data to.

Similar to the Sidekick series, just about everything you do on the phone is auto-synced to the cloud, from pictures to videos to text. This cloud backend is browser based, and as such should be completely cross platform.

The website where you’ll be able to see all your images and video (unlimited storage, login via Windows Live ID) in a timeline is Kin.com, which is up now. Sharing, feeds, and functionality are similar, but bigger. There is a browser-based Mac sync client whereby you can sync music and media (yes, iTunes stuff), but this is NOT related to Zune and will not work with Zune devices. It is totally separate.

Lin Yu-Chun’s uncanny and soul-stirring rendition of Whitney Houston’s version of Dolly Parton’s classic ballad “I Will Always Love You” got millions of views on YouTube, but even all those eyeballs won’t help the portly 24-year-old become Taiwan’s next Idol.

Yu-Chun was voted off Super Star Avenue, Taiwan’s version of American Idol on Sunday night. But don’t cry for Lin. The soft-spoken soprano, who discovered the joy of singing as an escape from bullying from his peers growing up, is now in talks for a record deal. And while he only speaks a little English, Lin’s excited about a possible move stateside sometime in the future.

Chun’s Cinderella story has been compared to that of another dowdy singer: Scot Susan Boyle, who shot to fame when she the world with her stirring version of “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.

Although she lost out on the Talent crown, Boyle’s performance got millions of hits on YouTube and the former “Cat Lady” eventually landed a recording contract that spawned a No. 1-selling album.

Microsoft’s Project Pink—sorry, Kin—in a sentence: It’s the phone I’d beg my mom for if I was 15 again. And didn’t want an iPhone. More »

The University of Pittsburgh has launched an initiative called the Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement http://www.hesselbein.pitt.edu. It aims to inspire, develop, and reward accomplished student leaders to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

A core program of the academy is the Hesselbein Student Leadership Summit to be held July 10-13, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA. Fifty students are selected to receive advanced leadership training from mentors who are distinguished professionals in the corporate, nonprofit, military, and social sectors.

If selected, the academy covers the cost of room, board, registration, and provides $200 in travel assistance. The online application is currently open at http://www.hesselbein.pitt.edu/student-leadership/overview.php. The application deadline is April 18, 2010. Please contact Angela Miller McGraw at angelamm {at} pitt(.)edu or 412-624-5203 if you have any questions.

For many of those whose youth coincided with the nineties, the decade is a blur. Not because of a heady mix of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll; not because they spent it fasting in protest; or because they were exhausted from devising a new world order, but because it was, well, a bit boring really. Gone was the hedonism of the eighties, and in its place a couple of blokes in the clothes they woke up in, singing with their hands behind their backs. Yet, it was also the last time you couldn’t guarantee a celebrity had had a nose job, when not all photos were at the mercy of an airbrush, and when preening still amounted to a flannel and some soap. As for the hair, it was a wreck.

Courtney Love

We miss the days when Courtney Love would step out with a farmyard on her head. In an era of tiresome inertia, Ms Love and ill-fated husband, Kurt Cobain, demonstrated a pleasing commitment to vice. Yet, shortly after this photo was taken she cleaned up. Shame.

Gary Barlow

Impeccably behaved, British-born, Take That singer-songwriter, Gary Barlow might not be an obvious bedfellow of Courtney Love, but a bottle of ammonia they seem to have shared.

Geri Halliwell

We thank former Spice Girl and interminable wannabe, Geri Halliwell for her intellectually rigorous philosophical abstraction, Girl Power, but wish she’d used a comb.

Madonna

Here, the hair of mother of invention, Madge, brings to mind not so much a trainwreck as a collision with the Orient Express: for all her finery, not her finest moment.

Michael Bolton

Oh Michael.

Andre Agassi

We do not wish to poke fun at Andre Agassi’s diminishing thatch, for hair loss is not a laughing matter. Instead, we’re going to marvel at his eyebrows. Aren’t we kind?

Hugh Grant

We wish Hugh Grant would lose a strand.

Nicole Kidman

Ah, the days when ceramic irons were but a glint in an updo. We’re not sure what Nicole Kidman is up to in this shot, but those wayward curls suggest it’s no good.

Mariah Carey

Mariah heard a perm got you laid.

Johnny Depp

Who could forget the badger streak? Everyone knew someone who had one – is Johnny Depp, offbeat apparition and one-time bearer of a yellow patch, to blame?

Think rising gas prices are going crimp American driving patterns?

Think again.

Here’s the latest from MasterCard, via Platts:

The Mastercard data, which we’ve written about before, is one of many imperfect ways of trying to measure US gasoline demand. It’s based on credit card swipes, and it comes out weekly. 

The weekly information is subject to so many variables that it should probably be overlooked. But the four-week average is probably more accurate, since it smooths out some of the variables, such as a moveable holiday like Easter, or a big weather event that keeps everyone home.

And what the report the last few weeks has been showing is that Americans have been driving a lot.

The most recent estimate of the total weekly demand, based on the four-week average, put US gasoline consumption at 67.122 million barrels. That’s for the week ending April 2. It’s the second week in a row where the rolling four-week average topped 67 million barrels of total gasoline demand in the US.

Pretty impressive.

The last time we hit this level was last July. The time before that was in August 2008.

Here’s the really remarkable part:

Notice something? All those other times when the numbers exceeded 67 million barrels occurred during the summer driving season. So despite almost 10% unemployment, despite gasoline prices that are edging toward the $3/gal mark, despite the dumping of SUVs and the love affair with hybirds, the MasterCard data suggests that Americans consumed more gasoline in March than at any time in US history. The MasterCard data only goes back to 2004, but gasoline consumption in the US was higher in the middle part of this decade than at any other time in history, so these MasterCard numbers for last month are revealing something that is very surprising.

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White House budget chief Peter Orszag thinks his old colleagues at the Congressional Budget Office are being too pessimistic over the potential budget savings of healthcare reform (via The Hill):

“I think if anything, the deficit impact may well turn out to be larger than what was projected by the Congressional Budget Office for two reasons,” Orszag said at an event sponsored by the Economic Club of Washington. ”One, if you look at the history of projections on major pieces of legislation, they’ve tended to be too conservative rather than too optimistic,” he said. “And second, the scoring largely does not take into account this evolution toward paying for quality, which I think in this decade will begin to pay off.”

Me: Interesting, the International Monetary Fund thinks Orszag’s Office of Management and Budget might be too optimistic about its overall fiscal forecasts. This from the folks at e21:

The IMF working paper makes a compelling case that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) uses unrealistically low interest rates in its forecasts of future debt and deficit levels, assumes too rapid a recovery, and overstates the speed at which countercyclical entitlement expenditures will fall in response to economic growth. As the IMF explains (page 14), “aging and health related spending are not the key drivers of this debt build-up.” Indeed, policy choices are.

Optimism is nothing new. As the IMF explains, “the past record of budget projections shows a strong tendency for ‘optimistic’ budget forecasts.” With the exception of 1993 to 1997, OMB projections have underestimated the growth of deficits and debt. What’s different about the Obama team’s projections is the magnitude of their optimism. The IMF estimates that to stabilize debt below 70% of GDP would require a fiscal adjustment of about 3.5% of GDP. In nominal terms, that would require some combination of spending cuts and tax increases equal to roughly $600 billion in 2014 alone.

Evilpuppy, who says she’s disabled, blogs that a United flight attendant refused to help her hoist her bags into the overhead compartment.

She writes:

The attendant standing in the front section of economy was a blonde woman probably in her late 40s-50s and I called her over to explain that I needed her assistance because I wasn’t capable of lifting my luggage due to my disability. To my surprise, the attendant rejected my request while excusing it by saying: “If I helped everyone do that all day then MY back would be killing me by the end of the day!” I asked her how I was supposed to get my luggage stowed and her answer was: “You’ll just have to wait for someone from your row to come back here and ask them to give you a hand.” When I asked what would happen if no one would, her response to me was: “Well, normally a passenger is around to overhear something like this and they’ll offer to help with it on their own. You’ll just have to ask someone when they get back here.” Then she turned back around and went up to the front seats where she waited to “assist” other passengers.

I was completely flabbergasted, but with no other option, I sat down to wait and pulled my carry-on suitcase as close as I could to try to get it out of the way of the aisle. As I’m sure you’re aware, however, your aisles are considerably narrow and even my best efforts left half of even my small carry-on suitcase in the aisle. What’s more, rather than help me, most of the passengers simply knocked into my suitcase and shoved past me on the way to their own seats. Every time they hit the suitcase, it in turn hit me and jarred my back more and more with each strike.

She complained and got this response:

“I won’t apologize for her actions and I’m not sorry for what happened to you. It’s not in our contract to assist passengers with their luggage and we reserve the right to refuse assistance to anyone. If that’s what you need, then perhaps in the future, you should make other travel arrangements.”

If you’re a disabled traveler, have you had an experience like this?

“I Have Always Depended On The Kindness Of Strangers…” [Incoherent Ramblings from a Coffee Addict]
(Thanks, Larry!)

Perto de seu lançamento oficial, o novo facelift do Ford Fiesta nacional já foi visto na rua por uma pessoa com olhos atentos a tudo! Conforme foi divulgado no site Auto Data, a nova frente do Fiesta foi flagrado em São Paulo e já estava emplacado, logo, o veículo já foi entregue para avaliação.

Aproveitando o vacilo descuido que a pessoa teve ao deixar o carro no meio da rua, dá para ver algumas mudanças na nova frente do carro, que geralmente está mais equipada que o normal nessas versões de teste. Podemos ver faróis de neblina e rodas novas de liga leve.

Estima-se que o Fiesta 2011 reestilizado apareça nas concessionárias em maio, e o verdadeiro novo Fiesta vai aparecer apenas em 2011 mesmo. Vamos ficar atento a mais novidades.

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Quix lets you create and manage bookmarklets for doing all sorts of cool things from within the browser. Want to find text within the current page, send the current page to services like Pinboard or Tumblr, search the current domain with Google, load Firebug lite to peek at a sites markup, shorten an URL with Bitly, or do anything else you can imagine? Quix is the answer.

I first heard about Quix a few months back when Merlin Mann was talking about some clever stuff he was doing with it. I remember having a look, but at the time it didn’t make much sense to me. Partly because when I’m on my Mac I already have established systems for quickly activating the type of functions Quix would be useful for. Add to that the fact that my main use of mobile Safari on the iPhone was pretty much limited to sending pages to Instapaper for later use and the whole notion of Quix left me unimpressed.

Now that I’ve got the iPad though, it’s making a lot more sense. At the moment it’s more iPhone than it is Mac, but that won’t stop folks from trying to push it towards the more fully functional Mac side of things. Quix is a good step in that direction, giving you access to the same type of in-browser functionality that you’re used to having on your desktop.

Quix works through the use of a “meta bookmarklet” which when activated launches a command prompt allowing you to initiate any other commands stored in the quix.txt file. The easiest way to get started is to just add the bookmarklet to the Safari Bookmarks bar on your Mac and then sync it to your iPad. Tweak the settings for mobile Safari to display the bookmarks bar, and now Quix will always just be a tap away. With almost 100 commands included by default, you’re well on your way to being able to do just about anything you want from within mobile Safari.

No need to stop there though, you can also host your own quix.txt file and fill it up with your own set of cool commands. The syntax is pretty straight forward, each line being made up of a command, the executable, and a short description. For some inspiration have a look at Merlin’s custom list to see the kind of tricks he’s come up with. If you have some of your own custom bookmarklets please share them in the comments.

Aaaaaand now you’ll see this every time you grab a USB cable. [Reddit via The Daily What] More »

Days after CEO Jon Rubinstein vehemently defended the company’s stability, Palm has officially placed themselves on the market.  According to Bloomberg, Palm has hired Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find prospective buyers.  As it stands, HTC, Lenovo, and Dell have expressed interest in the company, though Dell decided not to make an offer.  Rumors circulate around potential offers from Huawei Technologies and ZTE as well, though both declined comment on the matter. Compared to a 60 percent slide since the beginning of the year, Palm shares rose 71 cents, or 14 percent, to $5.87 in trading this morning.  The surge follows a 32 percent rise last week based on speculation of a buyout.

With 11 straight quarterly losses under their belt, it’s understandable that Palm needs to find a buyer as quickly as possible.  Founded in 1992, the company has an incredible history and a strong brand that should be appealing to any potential buyer.  Not only were they a “founding father” in the PDA market, but they offer a well-received operating system (webOS) as well.  Combine Palm with a company that makes fantastic hardware but seeks an edge in the software side (like everyone else, HTC immediately comes to mind), and you have a well-rounded organization.

Time will tell, but I’m sure we’ll hear more as the week goes on.  Who would you like to see purchase the Sunnyvale-based company?  Shout out in the comments section!

Via Bloomberg, Engadget

Google Docs now includes co-editing features, similar to Google Wave. The feature is one of several new updates to Google Docs that includes faster online access to documents and better formatting.

The new features provide capabilities that enhance Google Docs on platforms such as the desktop or laptop. But the stark difference between apps and traditionally crafted web pages is evident as Google seeks the best way to present Google Docs on mobile devices.

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The challenge is particularly vexing for the iPad. Google Docs does not run on the iPad due to the customized Safari browser that Apple created for the new device. Google Docs runs on a browser designed for the desktop, not the iPhone. Google focuses on using a single platform for its applications. To dive into the murky water of mobile apps becomes an investment decision that Google is still weighing.

Instead, Google Docs will continue to be available solely through the mobile web browser on Android, BlackBerry and the iPhone with the capability to view Google documents and presentations. Spreadsheets may be edited on the available mobile platforms.

The new features for Google Docs have a lot to do with speed and rendering, which allows for the co-editing capabilities. People may see what each other type as they work within documents, spread sheets or using the drawing feature. Up to 50 people may work simultaneously on a document with integrated instant messaging.

The goal, in many respects, is to bridge people to the cloud by providing a high performance platform that is as responsive as a desktop environment.

Commenting in the margin, real-time spell-check and the ability to float images anywhere in the document are new features that come from faster capabilities within the application.

Spreadsheet features include drag-and-drop columns, auto-completion and formula editing bar.

Drawing is one of the coolest new features. Drawings may be co-edited, downloaded into standard formats and copy and pasted into Google Docs.

But the new features mean there has to be tradeoffs. Google Docs will drop offline capabilities, no longer available starting May 3. Offline access to GMail and Google Calendar will continue to be available.

Google is at a cross roads. They will have to decide about how to move their applications deeper into a mobile environment. HTML 5 offers a similar experience to mobile apps. But native apps are so well-suited to a mobile environment. Just look at scheduling apps. The progression to find the route, schedule, stops and times can all be presented in simple, logical order. HTML 5 can offer a rich user experience, too, but apps are native and have a future as bright as traditional HTML has had over these past several years.

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While there aren’t nearly enough, there are several incubator programs out there for startups in most of the major cities with thriving startup cultures. These programs provide early-stage companies with funding, mentoring, and workspace among other aid, but there are very few programs that help college students looking for internships in the startup space to get connected with the companies that need their help. One incubator program, StartupRoots, is looking to change this trend with a brand new program aimed at brining students and startups together, and they’re starting in startup mecca: Silicon Valley.

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For computer science and business students who are looking to cut their teeth with a young startup, or for early-stage startups in need of some bright interns to help kick things in gear, the deadline to apply is this Thursday at midnight, so here are the details on the program. StartupRoots is a 10 week program running from June to August that consists of three main parts for students: a non-paid internship with a startup, mentoring from weekly speakers, and networking with company execs and fellow interns.

StartupRoots already has several notable speakers lined up to participate in the program, including Steve Blank, Jeff Clavier, Robert Scoble, Ann Miura-Ko, Hiten Shah and Vivek Wadhwa. Last week I spoke with Gagan Biyani of StartupRoots who says that the program helps to level the playing field for students smaller companies competing with larger companies with recruitment budgets.

“College students don’t really have a way of finding internships at startups. Microsoft and Google have huge internship programs for which they hire recruiters to go college campuses and find college interns, but you can’t do that as a startup because you don’t have the resources,” Biyani told ReadWriteWeb. “We’ve created a program that solves both of those problems by enabling both startups and interns to apply, and we’ll match the best ones out of those categories.”

Both undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply, and they need to be attending an accredited 4-year university during the fall of 2010. Biyani did say, however, that the program would consider recent graduates, though he said he hadn’t seen any apply since the internship is likely to be non-paid. The payment of interns is at the discretion of the startups, so no payment is guaranteed through the program.

So far, around 90 students have applied and StartupRoots is looking to accept anywhere between 7 to 15 applications for the internships. The program is divided into two groups, or tracks: one for business students or anyone interested in entrepreneurship, and another more in-demand track for engineers.

As for companies, the program has already announced the first six that will be invited to participate, and they plan to accept as many top quality startups as they can. They’re goal is to have a 1-to-1 pairing of interns and startups, though some have asked if they can reserve two or three; Biyani says they aren’t sure whether they will allow this or not.

If your startup already has interns and wants to leverage the networking and mentoring provided by StartupRoots, your company can apply to be included in the program as well. Biyani says that by incorporating existing interns into a larger group, the interns will be able to have a more full educational experience they may not have received by working in one office with one company.

More information is available at StartupRoots.com and on the program’s blog where they’ve posted lists of reasons why working for startups is fun, and why summer startup internships are valuable for students.

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Calling themselves the “underdogs,” the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has today launched an advertising campaign and a new website, sweeteralternative.com, to bring awareness of the successes of the Brazilian ethanol industry to a U.S. audience.

The UNICA campaign claims to simply educate the U.S. about how beneficial Brazilian sugarcane ethanol is for both consumer’s pocketbooks and the environment… but the way I see it, the marketing is clearly aimed at changing the subtext of the convoluted tariff and taxation systems currently in place that have essentially banned the importation of Brazilian ethanol into the U.S.

Not coincidentally, those tariffs are expiring at the end of this year unless congress renews them.

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Sony Optiarc America today unveiled two new optical disc drives – a new portable, slim external DVD/CD recordable drive and the second generation half height internal 24X DVD/CD recordable drive.

DRX-S77U

The DRX-S77U drive boasts a sleek, lightweight design with awesome colors such as black, white, pink and gold. It supports to 8X DVD+/-R recording speeds, delivering a full 4.7 GB disc of video, data, music or images on standard 8X DVD+/-R media.

Here’s a really cool animation I found of this external drive matched with the VAIO P. Love at first sight..

Additionally, the drive can record on 8.5 GB DVD+/-R Double/Dual layer and 4.7 GB DVD-RW discs at 6X speeds, DVD+RW at 8X, DVD-RAM at 5X and CD-R/RW at 24X. The drive comes in a retail package bundled with the Nero 9 DVD/CD mastering software suite and is compatible with Windows 7. Connectivity is a snap with a Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0) digital interface.

The AD-7260S internal DVD/CD recordable drive continues to provide the same 24X max speed and high quality performance set by the predecessor model AD-7240S, which was the world’s first 24X speed half height DVD-RW drive. The AD-7260S is a conservatively priced speed demon at only $28.99 on newegg, and supports up to 24X max DVD+/-R recording, 12X DVD+/-R Double/Dual layer recording, 12X DVD-RAM, and 48X CD-R performance. The latest auto write strategies and proven buffer under-run protection enhance the reputation of optimal quality and reliability. The AD-7260S is available with black and beige bezel colors. LightScribe direct labeling technology is also available with this drive that allows creation of personalized, professional looking labels using LightScribe DVD/CD media (available separately).

EA has released a formal announcement for Bulletstorm, a new shooter from Epic Games and People Can Fly. We’ve already learned a bit about the game, so let’s check out some more details.

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Taking a great looking performance car and chopping off its roof is risky business – compromises are inevitable. That’s especially true in this modern age of unibody structures. Removing a big chunk of a vehicle’s architecture without adequately reinforcing what’s left can yield a chassis incapable of managing the position of the wheels, let alone result in a vehicle that loses its level of driver engagement and enthusiasm. On the other hand, reinforcements add mass – often lots of it. It’s a treacherous path, as both flaccid body control and weight are the mortal enemy of performance.

You can understand our trepidation, then, upon learning that Audi was planning on introducing its S5 Cabriolet at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. By our reckoning, the German debutante’s rollout was cause for both consternation and celebration. When the A5 and S5 coupes arrived in 2007, they were hailed as being among the best looking cars ever to wear the brand’s Four Rings. The new Cabriolet models would bring with them the euphoria of open-air motoring, but we had to wonder – would Audi’s rakish new hardtop be turned into a floppy flier just by giving it a roofectomy? Equally as important, would the model’s newly downsized engine drop the performance? There was only one thing to do: Put the range-topping S5 Cabriolet through a week-long test.

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Eric Jackson, President of Ironfire Capital, spoke to CNBC about the China he sees, one booming, but bound for a soft correction.

• 0:50 What’s going on in China is like what happened to America during and after New Deal
• 1:30 If China has a correction, it will be soft, rather than hard
• 2:20 China’s government can swiftly move to to control markets
• 3:50 Yahoo has intelligently worked with Alibaba to find its way into China

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