Business

Economy Goes Down, Prostitutes Don’t

Jun 17th, 2008 | By Paul Yokota | Category: Business, Entertainment

NEVADA – It’s no secret that the U.S. economy is not in the best of shape. Between the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the credit crunch, the soaring price of oil and the weak dollar, times are tough and getting tougher all the time.
But until now it’s only affected us in minor ways, a foreclosed home here, [...]



Supreme Court Justice Announces Monkey Video Game

Jun 4th, 2008 | By paulyokota | Category: Business, Entertainment, Politics, U.S. News

It was inevitable, really. Sandra Day O’Connor’s life story and accomplishments, including graduating at the top of her class at Stanford Law, being elected to the Arizona State Senate and, oh yeah, becoming the first female Supreme Court Justice, impressive as they may be, have clearly been leading to this point. At long last she [...]



Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!, Google Pissed

Feb 6th, 2008 | By paulyokota | Category: Business, Tech & science, U.S. News

On Friday, the Microsoft Corporation submitted an offer to Yahoo!’s board of directors, proposing to purchase all outstanding common shares of Yahoo! for $31 per share. For those of you who only speak English, that means Microsoft wants to pretty much buy Yahoo! for a grand total of around 44.6 billion dollars.
The company who stands [...]