Reading Time: < 1 minute I read two news this week, which makes me think this is coming. Keep in mind many local governments are upside down in terms of budget and debts, any tax revenue helps. Collecting tax revenue from online merchants in remote places like Seattle (HQ of Amazon) is a convenient choice. Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) tax lawsuit

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo tech-ticker Criteria * 20% quarterly year-over-year revenue growth * 25% quarterly year-over-year earnings growth * Trades at a P/E ratio below 12 Apply it in Google finance stock screener (here is the link), it finds 134 companies (this number could change as the stock price, PE ratio changes daily).

Reading Time: 2 minutes Not exactly, but close enough (here is a post I wrote on June 29, 2007 when iPhone started). Today the new iPhone 3G S is on sale at AT&T store, as I understood. This time iPhone did not generate as much buzz, but I heard my favorite tech writer Walt Mossberg was also standing in

Reading Time: < 1 minute 谷歌, Google China, is reprimanded by CCTV (China official TV) on its prime time news broadcast, for “provide easy access to porn material in search, and harm Chinese youth”. A while ago Baidu was blamed for “placing faked medicine ads in search results”. Video source: Tudou.

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update) My initial guess was wrong. If you read the introduction at YouTube, it says it’s located at Dallas Fort Worth. (Original) Via YouTube.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters: JM Smucker Q4 beats Street, raises 2010 profit view. Quote: Peanut-butter and jelly maker J.M. Smucker Co’s (SJM.N) fourth-quarter profit handily beat market expectations, helped by strength in its Folgers coffee business, and the company raised its 2010 profit outlook. “Our core business continues to produce solid results and the recently added coffee business’s

Reading Time: < 1 minute A poor man’s blog. A microblog service which shutdowns from time to time without notice (in the old times, until Hillary’s guy called to delay the shutdown yesterday). A gossip with limit of 147 character. A tool appears used by Iranian opposition and youth to exchange information on campaign and protest. A tool used by

Reading Time: < 1 minute From ABC news. Maybe I will visit that place sometime.

Reading Time: < 1 minute May housing starts beats expectation, quote Bloomberg: U.S. builders broke ground on more houses than forecast in May, offering a sign that the industry’s slump, now in its fourth year, may be approaching an end. The 17 percent increase in housing starts to an annual rate of 532,000 followed a 454,000 pace the prior month,

Reading Time: < 1 minute Not really. Some issues: eligibility, trade-in value of your old clunker (maybe more than $3,500 or $4,500), also your clunker may worth more than its face value (consider the insurance cost and property tax of a new car). MyMoneyBlog has did some analysis on his/her own (used) vehicles; and Edmunds.com has a comprehensive article including