Archives: Facebook Is Almost 2/3 Women (and other stats)

A blogger named Paul Francis went to the trouble of gathering Facebook user data via an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting. He pulled user numbers for the top countries, broken down by male/female.
The data set is here. The tool shows a total of 42,966,780 members in the top 31 countries. The U.S. leads with […]

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Ian Johnson says more Chinese IPOs are going to European stock exchanges. “In a sign of China’s broadening economic relations overseas, these companies are looking to markets such as Frankfurt, the German financial capital, to take advantage of business ties or to boost their brands in Europe,” he writes.
In […]

The Mall of America opened at 5:00 this morning, and 150,000 red-blooded consumers will tromp through the Minnesota retail behemoth before the day’s over. Sounds like the heart of Black Friday to us.
So we asked Doug Reynolds, the mall’s director of security and the guy who’s responsible for handling medical emergencies there, what kind of […]

The developer who bought the house at the center of Michael Vick’s dog-fighting-ring case just put it in on sale — at a 66% markup, reports Christina S.N. Lewis in today’s Journal. The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback quietly sold the house, in the rural Virgina county of Surry last week for $450,000.
Mr. Vick began […]

Holiday shopping season kicks off today with its usual bounty of bargains, but at Developments we were more intrigued by the lower prices on drywall, framing lumber and oriented strand board reported in today’s Journal. In an article in the Weekend section, Sara Lin reports on an upside to the housing slowdown: building materials cost […]

(Rockville, Md.)—This provider of information technology appointed Jacob Hsu chief executive. Mr. Hsu, 33, succeeds Richard Lee, 72, who becomes vice chairman. Mr. Hsu, was president of the company.

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It’s the toughest holiday question of all: What do I buy the billionaire who has everything? New cupholders for the Maybach? A dancing Santa for the lounge of the Feadship?
Luckily, the Robb Report has just released its annual Ultimate Gifts guide to help you decide what to buy that special superrich someone in your life. […]

Goodman Global was good to Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase.
The maker of heating and air-conditioning products on Wednesday filed the proxy statement for its $1.76 billion purchase by private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman. The document peels back the curtain for the first time on the sale process, a six month roller coaster ride […]

Kids aren’t just tiny adults, but they’re often treated that way when they get sick. Despite a recent effort to learn more about how medicine affects kids differently than adults, most drugs given to children still haven’t been studied in pediatric settings, the Washington Post reports.
“Are there children dying because of this? I don’t know. […]

New SIP-based VOIP calling service Flashphone from Russian company “Innovation Systems of Communication” offers browser based free calling.
Flashphone is currently in beta and has some limitations (3 calls up to 3 minutes each per day), but upon launch is promising unlimited free calls to a range of countries and services. Where Flashphone is interesting is […]