Highway of Holes, Los Angeles EVERY four years the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) issues a “national report card” grading the country on the maintenance and modernisation of its infrastructure. This year, for the first time since 1998, the grade has risen from a miserable D to a slightly less awful D+, thanks to increased spending in six of the 16 categories measured: bridges, drinking water, railways, roads, solid   Read More ...

Zoe Saldana in talks to play Gamora in “Guardians of the Galaxy!” A new TV spot for “Iron Man 3″ hits the web! Marc Guggenheim discusses “Arrow!” Plus, “The Walking Dead” cast updates and more!Read More…

Ryan K. Lindsay gives “Indestructible Hulk” #6 by Mark Waid and new series artist Walter Simonson 4 stars, calling the issue “fantastically written, perfectly illustrated and a definite clear jumping on point.”Read More…

Filed under: Investing On this day in economic and business history… The Bakken oil boom, upon which so much of the United States’ domestic energy revival depends, is popularly thought to have begun in the latter half of the 2000s. Improved drilling technologies, particularly hydraulic fracturing, have brought more oil to the surface of this North Dakota-centered formation than had ever been thought possible. However, without an initial discovery on   Read More ...

With so many services like iCloud and Dropbox getting hacked these days, it’s no surprise that more people want to pull their data off the cloud. Instead of missing out on those great syncing features, though, you can create your own cloud storage service that you control with a service called ownCloud. With it, you’ll get syncing files, notes, calendars, and more. The best part: it only takes about five   Read More ...

Filed under: Investing Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. Announces First Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. (NAS: OZRK) expects to report first quarter earnings at the close of business Thursday, April 11, 2013. Management plans to conduct a conference call to review this information at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT) on Friday, April 12, 2013. Interested parties may listen   Read More ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — First-quarter earnings season is shaping up to be a rough one for many regional banks, according to Jefferies analyst Ken Usdin. “Slower loan growth, lower mortgage fees, and negative seasonal trends make for a tough 1Q set-up,” Usdin wrote in a report on Thursday. He also questioned whether the difficult operating environment was “fully reflected” in Wall Street earnings estimates. Changes in sell-side analysts’ earnings estimates   Read More ...

Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s “Kick-Ass 3″ kicks off in mid-May, but CBR has an exclusive first look at Adam Hughes’ Hit-Girl-starring variant cover today!Read More…

Filed under: Investing Canon to Exhibit Laser MFPs and Document Scanners at 2013 American Bar Association TECHSHOW Conference and Expo MELVILLE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will be an exhibitor at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW 2013 Legal Technology Conference & Expo taking place April 4 – 6, at the Hilton Chicago. Canon will showcase its imageCLASS laser printers and multifunction printers and imageFORMULA   Read More ...

Thursday’s LogicBUY Deal is the new-condition 9.4″ 16GB Xperia Tablet S for $329.  Features: NVIDIA Tegra 3 with 4-PLUS-1 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz processor and 1GB RAM running Android 4.0 1280 X 800 LCD Cameras:  8MP rear, 1MP front 802.11abgn WiFi and Bluetooth SD Card slot Can function as an IR remote 10-12 hour battery life Sony [...]Read More…