(via the NYT)
The increased activity comes as other kinds of acquirers have been sidelined by the credit crisis. These funds are state-sponsored investment vehicles and have combined assets of $2 trillion. With that much dry powder, sovereign funds dwarf the formerly booming private equity industry and in some cases, compete directly with it.
The Government of…
(via TimesOnline UK)
“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this…
Lots of news visualizations using the color spectrum lately – here’s the BBC’s.
(via Archinect)
Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace” — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall — its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including a 42-story, 495-foot apartment and hotel tower, wrapped in a terra-cotta exoskeleton and rising from new pilings…
(via code_swarm)
code_swarm – Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.
This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a…
gcrawler from VORG is a beautiful data visualization of his social network:
Biggest. Dragonfly. Ever., originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.