In a Yahoo Finance article Hanging with the money crowd, they talk about how weight gain is contagious in social networks, a concept backed by New England Journal of Medicine as well as Weight Watchers. 

Madonna, has left her decades long relationship with Warner Music Group and signed a $120 million deal with concert promoter giant Live Nation, Inc.

Sometimes getting technology first is a mixed blessing. Yes you have the coolest, newest, shiniest thing on the techno-sphere, but you also get to be among the first to find out its bugs, glitches and foibles.

We all know Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo's shoes made popular by Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, but Christian Louboutin is not as familiar to the general public; even the average affluent fashionista may not have heard of these ultra-expensive shoes.