Straight Up Saturday – March 7th, 2009
March 7, 2009 by Lela Davidson
Filed under Finance
What happened this week in the money?
- Games Industry Biz reported on a Tiga study that reveals UK video game industry seeks financing options and tax relief similar to what the Brits have done for film.
- Bruce Watson at Daily Finance weighed in on Obama’s controversial endorsement of the stock market.
- peHub reported on the sale of tuition micro-financer TuitionU.comto GreenNote Inc., a micro finance and social networking company. What’s micro-financing and what’s it got to do with social networking? Find out on GreenNote.
- Carter Dougherty at the New York Time wrote about governments’ efforts to revive private finance markets, specifically Japan’s move to protect Toyota by tapping into foreign currency reserves.
- New York Magazine found that gold diggers women who date bankers are re-evaluating their dating criteria. Some may even pay their own cab fare.
There you have it, straight up money talk for Saturday. Let us know what else you find out there that’s good enough to share!
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