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...even as Craigslist continues to thrive - it's expected to rake in some $80 million this year - the site's design and user experience have changed little since it began. "There is a stunning lack of innovation in classifieds," says Craig Donato, founder and CEO of Oodle, which doubled the number of monthly visitors to its site over the past year to nearly two million. The San Mateo, Calif., company with 50 employees and some $19 million in venture capital funding recently made headlines for its deal to host classifieds on walmart.com. Once just a search site that scraped listings...
...that could spell trouble for John McCain come November. Though both Democrats have shown the ability to raise bigmoney online, McCain has been struggling to catch Internet fever. While his rivals rake in bundles of cash in small-dollar checks, McCain makes the rounds of hotel ballrooms, charming wealthy donors with traditional chicken dinners and fruit-platter mixers. In March he attended 26 fund raisers in 24 cities, raising about $15 million, with roughly one-third of it coming from the Web. Obama attended just six events in the same period, yet his campaign raised three times as much...
...player on cricket's stage, India is using its burgeoning financial might to seize the lead role. The latest and most daring move of its cricket authority, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is forming a new competition, the Indian Premier League (IPL), in which players can rake in more money for a few weeks of work than they'd normally make in years...
...Roof,” a timeless story about a wealthy plantation family who gather to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch and compete for inheritance rights, will put your clan to shame at the Loeb Experimental Theatre, starting tonight. The Roving Reporter sat down with the cast to rake through the Southern underbelly of the production.Benjamin T. Clark ’09 RR: So who do you play?BC: I play Big Daddy.RR: Does the Adam Sandler film “Big Daddy” give you any inspiration for your role?BC: Well, I have been peeing...
...conundrum, and Patel is obliged to rake through centuries and continents for the seeds - pardon the pun - of the world's dietary inequity. The library work is solid - he is currently a researcher at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. As you would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand...