Nearshore Journal

By DAN SEWELL (AP)
CINCINNATI — Business services outsourcing provider Convergys Corp. has changed its leadership.
The company based in Cincinnati said Wednesday that former Alltel Corp. executive Jeff Fox will take over as president and CEO. David Dougherty, who led Convergys less than three years, will stay on as a consultant.
The company says the 47-year-old Fox [...]

By Alex
Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune:
“My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,” he told The Daily Telegraph. [...]

By Ari Levy and Joseph Galante
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Facebook games “FarmVille” and “Café World” have Silicon Valley startups racing to create new ways to pay for virtual goods, a market that may reach $3.6 billion by 2012.
Kwedit Inc., based in Mountain View, California, will announce today that gamers can buy virtual currency if they [...]

Here is the newly released Google Nexus One Android phone. The device, in photos.
Images by: Arstechnica

Source: http://arstechnica.com

By Jon Stokes
Google’s biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL
The Nexus One is a sharp-looking smartphone, but, as nice as it is, it is the least significant thing that Google announced today. The real news is Google’s online store, and what it means for the US wireless industry.
By now, you know the details [...]

By Brad Stone
For reviews of most businesses, there’s Yelp. But once you pass beyond that magical threshold known as the airline check-in counter, you enter a bustling world of commerce not typically covered by Web sites.
On Monday, GateGuru, an application for the iPhone developed by Dan Gellert, a former associate in Time Warner’s venture investment [...]

By TINI TRAN
BEIJING – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.
Obama, who spent three days in China during his first official tour of Asia, acknowledged the meeting in an interview with [...]