Bizzy’s AM Coffee Biz-Econ-Life Links (071206)
Free Links:
- Ho-hum jobs report — Citigroup is adding 1,000 jobs (HT Project Logic, who forgot that he isn’t supposed to find these things out before me, at Right Angle Blog) in Blue Ash, a northeast Cincinnati suburb.
- More ho-hum jobs news — Google is opening an office in Ann Arbor, Michigan that the company anticipates will employ 1,000 within 5 years.
- Big
DigBoondoggle update — This time it’s deadly (HT Instapundit). A longer article is here. $14.6 billion later, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is quoted as saying, “I don’t think anyone can feel the tunnels are safe….” He is trying to get the head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to step down, and the crash area is being treated as a crime scene. - Payroll processing and employee benefits giant ADP got duped –
In the latest in a string of high-profile data disclosures, the brokerage services group of ADP (Automatic Data Processing) last week said “an unauthorized party impersonated officers” at an undisclosed number of public companies to obtain investor information between November 2005 and February 2006.
The company, based in Roseland, N.J., did not say how many companies or investors were affected.
Apparently SSNs and account numbers were not included in the information heist.
In the underlying article eWeek referred to, I learned that “In March ….. Fidelity Investments said a laptop with personal information of almost 200,000 Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen.” Info thefts and data breaches are so frequent that it’s hopeless to even try to keep up with all of them.
- Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, with the editorial support of Investors Business Daily (HT Instapundit), wants a comprehensive and detailed online database of all pork, regardless of recipient (not-for-profits, advocacy organizations, foundations, businesses, other governments, etc.). Good idea.
- The Business & Media Institute takes note of The Washington Post’s class-envy stoking finding that “Registered nurses, carpenters, and technical writers are unfairly reaping the spoils of the strong economy while hard-working dishwashers and janitors get the shaft.” It turns out that more-educated folks with needed skills are on average getting better pay increases than those with few skills. Zheesh — Who would have guessed that? (/sarcasm)
