Facebook may be economic, jobs driver

Texas has seen incredible changes in oil production because of advancements in shale technology. From one 200-mile view at night, you can easily spot the urban areas of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, but the strip just south of the Alamo City and U.S.

Jose C. Ramirez submits:Netflix (NFLX) brings back memories of nose-bleed valuations and over priced assets, bubbles, and dot.bombs.

With Windows laptops, the recent trend has been for manufacturers to go cheaper, offering thin and light devices for $1,000 or less.  Toshiba is taking a different approach with a new premium line of products it calls Kira. And it starts with a series of Windows 8 laptops called KiraBooks.

Gillian Tett has an article criticizing the idea that CoCos — contingent convertible bonds — will solve the “too big to fail” problem. (And yes, she calls it “too big to fail,” even though Gillian Tett of all people understands what interconnectedness means.)

There are more than 1,600 business in North America testing RIM's new BlackBerry phone, which is due to launch in a few weeks, reports Reuters, citing RIM's enterprise accounts director.