{"id":12484,"date":"2011-03-14T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:00:09","slug":"links-for-march-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/links-for-march-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 14th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/video\/asset\/digits-ipad-2-flies-off-shelves-2011-03-14\/A9092F85-7107-47A8-A91F-513C346B35C8?dist=afterbell#!A9092F85-7107-47A8-A91F-513C346B35C8\">iPad 2 Flies Off Shelves<\/a> &#8211; Apple&#039;s iPad 2 flew off of the shelves in its first weekend on sale in the U.S., with the company&#039;s stores in major cities selling of the iPad 2 within hours of its introduction. Will Apple be able to meet demand for the new device? Yukari Kane reports on digits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/trip-to-tech-mecca-frys-reveals-truths-2011-03-11?link=kiosk\">Trip to tech mecca Fry&rsquo;s reveals truths John Dvorak&#8217;s Second Opinion &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; So I wandered over to what many consider a technology mecca: Fry&rsquo;s, the onetime Northern California grocery-store chain that now is a technology warehouse for computer users and geeks of all sorts in several states.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/west-coast-nuke-plants-are-they-safe-2011-03-14?siteid=rss&amp;rss=1\">West Coast nuke plants: Are they safe? &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) &mdash; The stability of West Coast nuclear plants is coming into question after a massive 8.9 earthquake rocked Japan and caused two explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi plant there, but officials insist that facilities here are well-equipped to withstand such disasters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704893604576200780657056862.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">Facebook Takes Aim at Groupon With Deals Service &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Facebook Inc. will soon start testing a service to provide local discounts to its more than 500 million members, a move that will thrust the social network into direct competition with daily deals provider Groupon Inc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-03-14\/crude-oil-futures-edge-higher-as-saudi-troops-enter-bahrain.html\">Crude Oil Futures Edge Higher as Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain &#8211; Businessweek<\/a> &#8211; Oil erased losses as Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s cabinet said the kingdom has responded to a Bahraini request for &ldquo;support.&rdquo; Prices were lower most of the day on speculation Japan&rsquo;s demand may decline after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake devastated the third-largest economy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42066534\/ns\/world_news-asiapacific\/\">Radioactive plume contaminates US warship &#8211; World news &#8211; Asia-Pacific &#8211; msnbc.com<\/a> &#8211; SOMA, Japan  &mdash; The U.S. Seventh Fleet moved its ships and aircraft away from a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant Monday after discovering low-level radioactive contamination more than 100 miles offshore.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-13\/japan-readies-massive-liquidity-as-boj-gauges-risk-to-post-quake-economy.html\">Japan Readies &lsquo;Massive&rsquo; Liquidity as BOJ Gauges Risk to Post-Quake Economy &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; The Bank of Japan may today inject more short-term cash into the banking system after the nation&rsquo;s most powerful earthquake on record, while keeping its asset- purchase plans unchanged as officials gauge the longer-term effect on the world&rsquo;s third-largest economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 14th : iPad 2 Flies Off Shelves &#8211; Apple&#039;s iPad 2 flew off of the shelves in its first weekend on sale in the U.S., with the company&#039;s stores in major cities selling of the iPad 2 within hours of its introduction. Will Apple be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-12484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}