Profile: Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

In an issue devoted to the Western, The New York Times Magazine spotlights Platinum Studios’ Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Cowboys & Aliens, ... also borrow freely. “We used outside-the-comic-book-market marketing strategies,” Rosenberg says ... by its marketing,” “Cowboys & Aliens” was “by and large ignored.” Rosenberg shrugs off the criticism: “ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:15:57
Blog: Blog@Newsarama...

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Google to Acquire Sprint Nextel?

Rich Tehrani reported on Saturday that he's hearing rumors that Google may acquire Sprint Nextel ... when he writes, "So one wonders if the mobile search market is so crucial to the company’s future, can it rely solely on the Open Handset Alliance to get into the mobile search market?" I agree [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:32:00
Blog: VoIP & Gadgets Blog...

Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Roundup: November 12, 2007

It’s Monday, and that means it is time once again for the Texas Progressive Alliance’s Texas Blog Round-Up ... Market bill, HR 3915. Xanthippas at Three Wise Men says be on the look out for how credit card [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:00:01
Blog: Capitol Annex ...

Melbourne Bloggers Banquet

Ed from Tomato has been busily arranging a get together for Melbourne Food Bloggers which is or was happening today ... in their autumn foliage we enjoyed a simple lunch with ingredients bought this morning at the market [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:33:24
Blog: Cook (almost) Anything ...

Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Bjork Denied on Baxter, Trump Hard, Britney Back?

1) Holy Hester Street! Bjork and Matthew Barney almost nabbed the penthouse at the Machinery Exchange, ... , can the city's real estate market handle another Britney Spears daliance? And in the West Village, no less [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:48:51
Blog: Curbed : The New York C...

That Was Fast: 'The Degentrification of Red Hook'

Red Hook Hotness was officially born on June 1, 2006 ... . Buildings put on the market for $2.5 million have stayed empty and unsold. Landlords hoping to get $2,500 [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:13:56
Blog: Curbed : The New York C...

Your Morning Credit Crunch: About That Slump...

The disclaimer on all those strong third-quarter sales reports was that since most of the prices were actually negotiated in the shit-hot second ... that to get a real gauge of the current state of the credit-crunched market, we'd have to wait ... ! Condo liens be damned, can anything slow this market down? Maybe developers should stop accepting [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:04:31
Blog: Curbed : The New York C...

The ‘FLY’ Moves to IBankCoin.com…Let the Games Begin

My friend ‘The Fly’ has moved his market hysterics and rants to IBankCoin.com . He has brought some of his friends…I expect it to get out of hand…immediately! Reach out to him if you are craving [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:12:53
Blog: Howard Lindzon ...

Software…Continues to be ‘The Place’

Cognos is being taken out by IBM at a nice premium. It looks like somebody leaked this last month. I blogged it and I should have chased it , when I speculated on the software takeover targets. When the market turns again, look for the software leaders to continue their runs. The sector [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:33:40
Blog: Howard Lindzon ...

Debts Of Mass Disruption: Why Barclays Went All Northern Rock Last Friday

Within 24 hours of Bent Society publishing a personal announcement of no confidence in Barclaycard’s business dealings with loyal customers ( ... and trusted high street icons of British business and society. The biggest ever business deal [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:36:28
Blog: My Telegraph...

Against tax cuts and free trade

Kevin Hassett, (identified as an advisor to Sen. McCain) looks at the Bush tax cuts and declares them successful. In particular, he argues that the deficits initially caused by the tax cuts don't hurt the economy by raising interest rates. Looking back at more than six years of economic history since the Bush tax cuts, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:44:44
Blog: Soccer Dad...

Arbitron Brewing Ratings Controversy: A Nielsen Repeat

New technology, disappearing ratings, and a potentially hairy political problem: That's what Arbitron (ARB) ... in the market over the summer to 19th during October. Now Arbitron is dealing with angry station owners [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:33:12
Blog: Silicon Alley Insider ...

The first shots in the mobile phone war between consumers and carriers

I've written before that Apple's iPhone and the threat of Google's Android (or gPhone) are rewriting the rules for the mobile carrier market. Well, the New York Times now thinks so too. And perhaps [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:11:06
Blog: Blackfriars' Marketing...

Pros and Cons Of New 401(k) Auto-Enrollment Rules

Employees who do not specifically choose to do anything with the retirement plans offered by their employer are being targeted by the Labor ... create a portfolio containing only money market funds or other investments designed for safe capital ... in the stock market. Studies show (according to the New York Times) that the fewer choices left [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:08:43
Blog: Consumerism Commentary...

Ugliness in ID

Ugliness in ID Monday, November 12 Sometimes, good design is good business. Just look at Apple ... in Industrial Design" in the Market Movers section of this morning's Conde Nast Portfolio blog entry; read [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:53:44
Blog: Core77 Design Blog...

Consultant In Chief

Consultant In Chief Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal's editorial board ran its report on their interview with Mitt Romney ... you more or less liekly to vote for Romney for president. Opinion Polls & Market Research [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:11:37
Blog: DealBreaker.com...

Financial Markets Explained

This is one of the finest explanations I’ve ever seen of the sub-prime crisis, and of market volatility in general: This really is excellent. Very highly recommended even [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:01:39
Blog: Discourse.net: On the f...

SAP Tries Conversational Marketing

Is conversational marketing for real or is it an oxymoron?  Can large corporations really use social media to build influence and valuable relationships in targeted markets?  I believe they can and have been involved over the past several in an effort to test that belief, which is the reason I haven’t blogging much lately [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:32:55
Blog: The FASTForward Blog: E...

Colleges Caught Red Handed Taking Kickbacks from Banks

If you want to market a product to college students, it only makes sense that you go to a college to do it. There are many perfectly legitimate opportunities to market to college students, but many banks and colleges have had backdoor deals in which the college would only tell ... [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:34:29
Blog: American Consumer News...

Disney to re-enter mobile market

Disney Mobile Logo Disney is planning to re-enter the mobile market, strangely their re-entry is being announced before they even officially shut down the first. This past September, Disney [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 13:59:08
Blog: Gadgetell...

BP: Commercial-Scale Biobutanol May Beat Economically Sound Cellulosic Ethanol to Market

In an interview with the site Ethanol Statistics, BP Biofuels President Philip New said that the company hoped that it may have biobutanol available ... sound basis. —Philip New In 2006, BP and DuPont formed a partnership to develop, produce and market [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:08:17
Blog: Green Car Congress...

Russia May Give Green Light to Hedge Funds

According to Russian internet newspaper, Gazeta.KZ, hedge funds for qualified investors could appear in Russia as soon as next year. Valery Petrov, General Director of the Ingosstrakh Investitsii management company, noted that Russian hedge funds could also be seen as an alternative to investment in futures and options. "Market [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:34:16
Blog: The Hedge Funds Weblog ...

Review: Etelos Projects Offers Good Ideas, Poor Execution

Etelos Projects for Google Apps is a new online project management application that is distinguished from other ... page, after which you are sent a confirmation email with your username and password, and a link ... in to your account. The link in your email, however, does not lead to a login page either [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:00:01
Blog: lifehack.org : Product...

50 Reasons to Subscribe to mental_floss (#45, Gary Larson)

Gary Larson is a huge hero of mine ... of another, with a caption that reads: “Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?” [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:12:01
Blog: mental_floss magazine -...

Audi’s sales predictions deemed overambitious

Audi’s strong sales performance over the past decade has led officials to predict the brand will be the top selling premium label by 2015, ... something industry experts say is unlikely to happen. The reasons given are because Audi doesn’t have enough green technology, it doesn’t have a strong foothold in the North American market, and ... [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:04:44
Blog: Motor Authority...

Lincoln won’t be a replacement for Jaguar

With Jaguar and Land Rover just months away from leaving the Ford fold, the U.S.-market Lincoln brand is poised to takeover as the Blue Oval’s most premium brand. However, officials have no intention of making Lincoln a rival to either Jaguar or Land Rover, or any [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:55:00
Blog: Motor Authority...

P.T. Barnum, Mortgage Broker

Phineas T. Barnum was right. You can fool some of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, ... to themselves, I'm sure), because the mortgage business [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:18:32
Blog: New Haven Independent :...

Aeneon XTUNE DDR3-1333 Memory

“If you are upgrading chances are you will be looking into getting some DDR3 memory. There are so many memory companies on the market it can be a little confusing what memory is best suited for your setup. Fact is, most new motherboards on the market accept DDR3 memory. Don’ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:06:21
Blog: PCSTATS - Get The 'Stat...

Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC Wide-Screen

The word "Awesome" is used to describe many things, but when it comes to displays, only a 30" LCD fits. Why? ... They offer a 2560x1600 resolution for superb gaming and workflow. Dell's 3007WFP-HC is also the least expensive model available on the market, but how does it perform?... PCSTATS [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:06:21
Blog: PCSTATS - Get The 'Stat...

Sony Alpha 700 Digital SLR

"Sony's new digital SLR is a semi-professional model aimed at the middle of the market, currently the territory of the Canon EOS 40D, Nikon D300 and Pentax K10D. Can its combination of 12-megapixel [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:06:21
Blog: PCSTATS - Get The 'Stat...

Understanding Colour Depth

Well, maybe. You see, colour quality, known more accurately as "colour depth" ... displays on the market fall sh... PCSTATS [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:06:21
Blog: PCSTATS - Get The 'Stat...

Those who fail to learn from history are STUPID

Sir John Templeton observed that the four most dangerous words in the English language are "this time it's different."... ...We have just had a full field test of free-market ideology, and once again it failed. Fiscal ... . But beginning in the 1970s, free-market economists and financial elites convinced Congress [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:49:12
Blog: Prometheus 6 | All resp...

iPhone launch UK style - not so much a stampede, as a stammer…

iPhone launch UK style - not so much a stampede, as a stammer… posted by Red in hmm..interesting ... beautiful devices on the market. The interface is gorgeous, the form factor alluring and it’s oh [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 13:49:50
Blog: The Red Ferret Journal...

Exporting Inflation to the Rest of the World

Like many people, I'd let myself hope that last August's global financial crisis was just that: a phenomenon arising from and largely contained within the narrow world of finance and capital markets. Much like the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management crisis, or the 1987 stock-market crash. How [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:11:11
Blog: Redstate | Conservative...

Israeli Start-up Yedda Acquired by AOL

As a part of its tactful market penetration strategy, AOL has acquired the Israeli Q & A start-up, Yedda.Yedda was founder in the capital city of Israel, Tel Aviv in 2006. According to AOL [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:47:06
Blog: Rev2.org: Profiling Web...

Zimbabwe Business Watch : Week 46

Zimbabwe Business Watch : Week 46 November 12th, 2007 Click here to see all posts in the Business Watch series It is more of the same this week but with accelerating depreciation and rapid price increases as businesses would rather risk punishment than go under. The Old Mutual Implied Rate has soared above the Market Rate by up to 100 [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:00:29
Blog: This is Zimbabwe ...

BA - finally - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jump to the full entry & travel map Buenos Aires, Argentina Finally got to BA. It took 3 flights and 26 hours thanks to an Alitalia strike. Felt immediately at home and comfortable here. Sunday morning in San Telmo market. What a crazy place this is !!!!! Its like a mini carnival and it happens every Sunday. In the afternoon went [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:45:07
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Stone Town - Zanzibar Town, Tanzania

Jump to the full entry & travel map Zanzibar Town, Tanzania We spent the last night of our trip in Stone Town, ... we did was visit an Anglican Church that is built on the site of the Slave Market.  It was very ... , was instrumental in abolishing the slave market in Zanzibar.  We had a guided tour which included [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:19:08
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

The Shamans of San Simon - San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala

Jump to the full entry & travel map San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala              ... . The bus stop was right across from the market, and I thought it would be simple to get the information [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:15:05
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Day of the Deities - Penang, Malaysia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Penang, Malaysia "All religions are true" -Bapu Ghandi As we lift off the runway on the way to Penang, my stomach lurches, giddy with nerves and our quick ascent into the clouds. The Muslim woman next to me shuts her eyes tightly, wringing her hands and moving her lips silently in prayer [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:21:08
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Academy: maps and legends

Some amusing posts on the philosophy front. First, from Philosophy Job Market Blog a rumination on the winner's curse: One minute I'm convinced I'm a philosophical fraud: I'm a total retard [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:13:12
Blog: Unfogged...

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