PUBLIC MARKS with search cash

The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.

Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.

In this mode you take your passport, a toothbrush, some cash, a cell phone, the clothes you are wearing, and that's it. It's pretty radical.

Montreal retailer Yasmine Wasfy said she might start including sales tax in her ticketed prices, to soften the blow.

"We're hoping that it's going to be less of a sticker shock at the cash, once they come in, and they just know what they're spending."

why not stick the EZlink chip inside my phone? Since the EZlink card also serves as a payment card, I can get around the city with nothing but my phone, buying beverages at 7-11, and paying taxi, bus and train fares while texting my buddies without carrying a scrap of cash.

When a customer buys a toothbrush from a drugstore, she pays with cash; when the same customer creates a social-networking profile on Facebook, the currency she uses is her personal data.

Diaspora, the “open Facebook alternative” (NYT story for background if you aren’t familiar), has raised Over $170,000 from over 4600 people in just a few weeks. All for an idea.

That’s an impressive start if victory was measured in press coverage, cash, and cool. Here’s the problem: Diaspora has all the wrong things at the wrong time. Competition that kills isn’t pre-announced — it catches as unsuspecting incumbent by surprise.

Gangs are now believed to make most of their profits from the drugs trade and are estimated to be worth £352bn, the UN says. They have traditionally kept proceeds in cash or moved it offshore to hide it from the authorities. It is understood that evidence that drug money has flowed into banks came from officials in Britain, Switzerland, Italy and the US.