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Facebook is beefing up its intellectual property arsenal by paying $550 million for some of the patents Microsoft recently agreed to buy from AOL. Facebook, the world’s largest social network, will obtain about 650 AOL patents and applications, as well as a license to AOL patents and applications that Microsoft will purchase and own, the Continue Reading →

Economists have long studied the imbalance of power caused by information asymmetry and have nomenclature for special kinds of examples.  After you Wiki “information asymmetry,” check out “adverse selection” and “moral hazard.” Now, just browse around Wiki and Google and you will assimilate the knowledge contained in two semesters of undergraduate Econ classes in under Continue Reading →

In my last column I wrote the New Health Age, the new age of health care and medicine that we have entered.  The coming changes in the health care landscape the United States and the incredible medical miracles rapidly coming will define this new age. As written in the last column, the national conversation about Continue Reading →

  Facebook acquired 750 patents from IBM, adding intellectual property that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement, a person with knowledge of the transaction said. Read the whole story at Bloomberg   Read more Top Stories Continue Reading →

Intel may be looking to enter the online television game with a pay-television service.  Sources close to the world’s biggest chipmaker say its started to seek programming rights from media companies and cable channels to make programming available on web-connected televisions, mobile devices and computers.   Continue Reading →

We have entered a new health age in this early part of the 21st century. Humanity and particularly Americans are entering a new time of medical miracles and health care. The thinking, delivery and economics of medicine and health care are changing and these changes will be accelerating in the next few years. In the Continue Reading →

WikiLeaks has begun publishing emails that it claims will expose dark secrets about the global security firm Stratfor. Over 5 million messages were stolen from the private intelligence firm that is being likened to a shadow CIA. Stratfor insists that the messages won’t expose anything close to a government conspiracy. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120228_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] WikiLeaks has begun publishing emails that it claims will expose dark secrets about the global security firm Stratfor. WikiLeaks is likening the private intelligence firm to a shadow CIA. But, Stratfor insists that the messages won’t expose anything close to a government conspiracy. In other news, a Continue Reading →

Apple’s share price has been “topic A” in my world this week. Everyone wants to talk about it — and, everyone has an opinion. First and foremost, I do not own any shares of Apple (or any other tech stock). I keep my money under my mattress. Also, I am not a financial professional, nor Continue Reading →

After uproar from privacy-concerned users, Apple now requires apps to explicitly tell you when it accesses your address book. Guess what? When an app like Twitter or Facebook asks if you’d like it to find your friends using your address book, that’s where it gets the contact information. It’s not magic. Read the full article Continue Reading →