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Monthly Archives: February 2009

02.27.09 / CBS Makes TV.com iPhone App

Today CBS released a free iPhone app for TV.com, allowing users to watch full episodes of television series such as CSI and 90210, reported the New York Times.  While smart phone users have been able to watch full episodes on … Read more »

02.27.09 / Coupons Are Making a Comeback – Online

Once the province of old bitties, thanks to the economic downturn, grocery coupon clipping is coming back in a big way, but with a new twist–coupons have gone online. The Wall Street Journal reports that online coupon usage, which accounts … Read more »

02.26.09 / The Birth of MyLife

Reunion.com and Wink merged to create MyLife, a search engine of social networking websites, reported cnet.com.  MyLife indexes more than 60 sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Twitter and more.  The company continues to follow Reunion.com’s business model of … Read more »

02.26.09 / TARP Ripe for Fraud, Waste, Government Watchdogs Say

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the $700 billion federal Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), told a House subcommittee that the government’s experiences is the reconstruction of Iraq, hurricane relief programs, and the 1990s-era savings and loan bailout suggest … Read more »

02.25.09 / iPhone App Counts Cards, Casinos Told

iRainMan?  Not quite.  But a new strain of card counting applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch have casinos standing up and taking notice. Earlier this month, Nevada’s Gaming Control Board warned casino operators of the new apps, stating that … Read more »

02.25.09 / Mobile Booking Apps Prove ROI Boon for Hoteliers

Even though hoteliers are suffering—who isn’t, these days—they are seeing significant ROI on their mobile booking applications. According to Ad Age, Marriott Mobile, launched in August 2008, generated $2 million in gross revenue by the end of the year—in other … Read more »

02.24.09 / Yahoo to Marketers: Search and Display Ads Are the Same Product

In a keynote address at a conference today in Orlando, FL, Yahoo executives Joanne Bradford, senior vice president of US revenue and market development, and Michael Walrath, senior vice president, encouraged marketers to stop thinking about search and display advertising … Read more »

02.24.09 / Spotify Setting Its Sights on the iPhone?

TechCrunch UK is speculating that Swedish online streaming music service Spotify is going mobile.  Citing recent news that the company just hired a director of portable solutions, and a spattering of rumors on Swedish blogs, TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher believes that … Read more »

02.23.09 / Indian Culture War Takes to the Web

In what some claim to be a response to the “talibanization” of their country, liberal-minded Indians are taking to social networks like Facebook to combat a rising vigilantism against activities certain groups feel are not in keeping with the spirit … Read more »

02.23.09 / Twitter: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Business Model

Or not yet, anyway. “We’ve got a ton of cash.  We have far more cash than we need, so I’m not in any hurry,” said Todd Chaffee, General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), according to Wired.  Twitter is so … Read more »