The Open Market Blog

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/27/2007

Taiwan’s Acer has announced plans to acquire computer-maker Gateway. In its heyday during the 1990s, Gateway ran brash, folksy ads in just about every…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/26/2007

Venezuelan state Boss Hugo offers a response to rumors that his pal Fidel is on his way to meet Satan, which should prove…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The Miami Herals pays its respects upon the passing of an American cultural institution, the South Florida-based Weekly World News. Without the WWN, a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The new issue of The Economist features a letter with a quote worth citing: SIR — I attended a performance by the British songwriters…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2007

Tech Maverick and Internet billionaire Mark Cuban has some choice words for would-be web entrepreneurs of today. Basically, don’t bother: The internet of…