Baby Name Wizard

Baby Name Wizard

The Digital Age Makes Baby Names a Big Business Remember when it was bad enough when your neighbor or a relative took that baby name you just really, really wanted? Now, in the digital age, what if that domain name you really wanted is gone? Aaagh, panic time! Let's be honest: as time goes on you're not going to find the matching Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, domain name, or whatever that matches your baby's name. Just give your baby a name you like, and hopefully they will like it as well.

If you've gotten a domain name linked to your own last name, you're safe, as you can just "bequeath" that domain name to your children. However, if you want a domain name such as "johnsmith.com" or something, you might be outta luck. While there are innumerable sites like Baby Name Wizard that can help you find out the meaning of names, and the like, parents are becoming more desperate.

Yes, according to a report, so much angst appears around baby names that books like Baby Name Wizard (from the same people that run the site above) have been written to find the perfect name for people. Laura Wattenberg, founder of Baby Name Wizard, said the following, about parental angst: “We all want our kids to be distinctive, and that’s created a kind of arms race because we might want to be different from one another but our tastes are very much the same. Parents type a first and last name into Google and feel panicked when it’s taken, or when the domain name is taken."

Warner Chilcott

Warner Chilcott

Drug maker Warner Chilcott PLC (WCRX) will exploit its own low tax rates and gain a foothold in Europe with its planned purchase of Procter & Gamble Co.'s ( PG) pharmaceutical unit. Ireland-based Warner Chilcott, which makes birth-control pills, agreed Monday to buy the P&G prescription-drug business for $3.1 billion, gaining access to P& G drugs Actonel for osteoporosis and colitis treatment Asacol. Shares of Warner Chilcott jumped $3.86, or 24%, to $19.92 Monday morning.

The deal will triple Warner Chilcott's size and increase its share of the so- called specialty-pharmaceutical market, in which companies focus on drugs for smaller disease areas than those targeted by large-cap pharmaceutical companies. P&G's pharmaceutical unit had about $2.3 billion in sales for the 12 moths ended June 30, compared with just under $1 billion in 2008 sales for Warner Chilcott. The deal "helps to diversify and strengthen Warner-Chilcott's portfolio," Jefferies analyst David Windley wrote in a research note.

Also, moving the P&G drugs to Warner Chilcott will make them more profitable because Warner Chilcott has a more favorable tax structure. Warner Chilcott has major operations in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and it has a deal with the territory to pay only 2% income tax through 2019. Warner Chilcott has structured its business so that Puerto Rican earnings are a large component of overall earnings. "Obviously there's a tax arbitrage," Chief Financial Officer Paul Herendeen told analysts on a conference call. He also expects the deal to help the company generate substantial cash flow over the next five years.

Jasmine Fiore Death Photo

Jasmine Fiore Death Photo

The top Google Trend at this time is Jasmine Fiore fotos. However, it's not what you might think. Although Fiore was indeed a model, and was indeed enhanced surgically, what people are (sadly) looking for is the Jasmine Fiore death photo. Why? Over the weekend TMZ posted a picture of Fiore's dead body they had obtained from video, extremely grainy, but still in absolutely poor taste. The Jasmine Fiore death photo (or foto) caused a huge protest at the site, and it was taken down.

That's not to say, however, you can't find the Jasmine Fiore death photo (or foto) if you look hard enough. The incident also raises the question, of where the line is. This is very similar to when David Carradine's death photo was leaked to a tabloid, in Thailand, I believe. Where is ethics nowadays? The answer, unfortunately, is that much as with anything else, ethics goes out the window where money is concerned. Obviously a Jasmine Fiore death photo would be big news, and big money to TMZ. Sure, they took it down, but the publicity is worth a lot, even negative publicity.

So where should tabloids draw the line? Common sense should play into it, or how about thinking, "would you want your daughter or whatever shown in such a way." Still, the fact that both "Jasmine Fiore death photo" and "Jasmine Fiore fotos" are tops in Google Trends, shows that the audience is much better than TMZ, in this regard.