Since celebrities seem to come out in droves for Fashion Week, let's take a look at who showed up wearing what. Even though they're famous and often have stylists on hand, they're not always successful in pulling a look together (that makes me feel so much better!). Who scored an "A" in style last week and who needs to do some homework?

I wouldn't expect anything else from Heidi Klum. She is a model, after all. I like this print, though I think she could've gotten away with pumps as well.

Dolman sleeves are not for me, but other women can pull them off. Malin Akerman does so here, in an easy dress that drapes in a good way.

Rosario Dawson. She is such a gorgeous girl, but I'm very "meh" on her style. This is a Diane von Furstenberg dress and I love the colors, but the bandeau top isn't the most flattering on her.

I'm puzzled by this Becki Newton get-up (if she lost the jacket, it'd be fine)….

….but I think Leighton Meester made much better use of black in this casual outfit.

By:  Del                         Source

Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, has coughed up $100 million for the Chinese game company 9You.

We reported on this deal back in March, but now the money has actually changed hands according to one blog, The Future of Artificial Intelligence

I thought they had an nicely comprehensive description of 9You:The 9You (www.9you.com) service is the first to integrate online game services (MMORPG, massive and medium size casual games, mobile game, etc.), fashionable digital entertainment contents, a variety of chatting and community services equipped with Avatar System, wireless value-added services and other premiere services to the Chinese language internet users all over the world.9You looked set to launch an IPO in Osaka last year. A lawsuit over licensing fees for the online dance game Audition forced 9You to cancel its Osaka IPO in August. Korean game designer T3 Entertainment filed the suit.

An IPO is probably a ways off for 9You now in the current economic environment, but Temasek Holdings can probably afford to wait a while for an opportunity to cash its money back out of the company….

By:  Greg Cruey                        Source

The International Monetary Fund in its latest report warns that the US is headed for recession. And that is regardless of what happens with any bailout package. "The financial turmoil that began in the summer of 2007 has mutated into a full-blown crisis, encompassing broader securities markets and the banking systems of several advanced economies …. based on a comparison of the current episode of financial stress with previous episodes there remains a substantial likelihood of a sharp downturn in the United States, given the similarities between the current dynamics of asset prices, credit ratios, and household financial positions and previous episodes that were followed by recession."

And certainly the numbers and graphs don't look good.

First let's take a look at US house prices.

What that graph says is that US house prices are in free fall, and that amounts to a massive wealth reduction

Secondly, the graph below shows a massive drop in consumer sentiment and spending. And if people aren't spending, it will feed into the rest of the economy.

The graph below is a real worry because it points to a sharp rise in unemployment with thousands thrown out of work

The bailout, at best, might restore some confidence to the markets - but for about 10 minutes only. The world's biggest economy is in serious trouble.

By:  leon                        Source

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nataliya KostenyukovaThis week, ZDNet published an article entitled "India's Outsourcing Bubble is Bursting" - describing the slowdown as it effects the IT Outsourcing labor market in Bangalore. While it doesn't appear that Bangalore is in the full throes of doom-and-gloom, the article points to key indicators of a slowdown - falls in housing prices, stabilizing salaries, and many more people looking for work.

The article points out, however, that the slowdown may have some positive effects on the outsourcing business - particularly a reduction in turnover. Furthermore, some are seeing an opening to better compete with the Accentures, IBMs and HPs of the world - not a far-fetched possibility as customers already accustomed to outsourcing get aggressive in looking for better deals.

The real key to competing with these companies is not in the back office, but the management infrastructure. Accenture, IBM and HP are expert at managing relationships, and companies have been thus far been willing to pay for that expertise. This is where the Indian and Philippine outsourcing companies have, frankly, fallen short.

Offshore vendors may want to look at this time as a time to invest in their US presences, rather than scaling back. True, it may be a zero- or negative- sum game, but the opportunity may be there to grab a far larger piece of the pie.

By:  Gary Zeiss, Esq.                        Source

One of the good things about digital photography is that you can take a limitless number of photos, for free, because you only pay for the ones you print.

However, this snap happy culture has now discovered that keeping all those digital photo files in some kind of order can be a daunting task, and locating a particular picture can be a real challenge.

There are all sorts of digital photo file organization programs out there but the good folks at Google have come up with something rather unique for organizing and locating your people pictures, and it's free.

Check out this report on Google's new Picasa "face recognition" digital photo organizer and be amazed.

Take a camera with you whenever possible, and look around, you'll find a picture somewhere.

Photo Source:www.squidoo.com

By:  jim                        Source