Bravo TV characters from shows like The Real Housewives and Top Chef are now offering suggestions for stores, restaurants and bars on mobile-social application Foursquare.
The new partnership integrates information from NBC Universal’s iPhone app “Guides By Bravo,” which launched its 1.1 version this summer. Users can find curated lists to find out where their favorite Top Chef eats and where designer Rachel Zoe of The Rachel Zoe Project shops for couture finds.
Starting Monday, Bravo will begin offering Foursquare players badges and special prizes when viewers visit more than 500 Bravo locations, according to the New York Times.
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Looks like Amazon is throwing in the towel on its fight against Macmillan.
In a statement on the Kindle Community website, Amazon says it must “capitulate” to Macmillan’s demand to charge $12-$15 for an eBook version of a new hardcover, or bestseller.
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Looks like Amazon is throwing in the towel on its fight against Macmillan.
In a statement on the Kindle Community website, Amazon says it must “capitulate” to Macmillan’s demand to charge $12-$15 for an eBook.
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John Sargent, CEO of publisher Macmillan, has taken out a full-page ad to explain why he is insisting that Amazon raise prices on its ebooks to $15 in some cases.
So we’re going to take out a full-page post to explain to John why, on behalf of book buyers (and writers) everywhere, we’re cheering for Amazon on this one.
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Macmillan CEO John Sargent took out a full page ad in Publishers Lunch to explain his side of what’s happening in the battle with Amazon.
Unless Amazon is willing to raise the price of new hardcovers on the Kindle to $15 from $10, it will not receive new books when they hit the market. Amazon faces “extensive and deep windowing of titles” if stays with its current terms.
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Steve Jobs might not like Google wading into his phone business, but consumers should love it. It’s going to make Apple and Google try harder to beat each other by offering better products.
Apple is said to be releasing an “A+” update for the next version of the iPhone, according to Arnold Kim at MacRumors.
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The New York Times’ Adam Bryant sat down with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus to ask about his secrets to successful leadership.
Mark makes a number of excellent points, including this one:
- Make everyone at the company a CEO of something.
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Steve Jobs tells an Apple Town Hall Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ mantra is ‘Bullshit’ and that Adobe is lazy, pushing buggy Flash when the future is html5.
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If there were any doubt about the animosity between Apple and Google, it can be put to bed.
At a town hall meeting with employees following the iPad event, Steve Jobs said Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is “bullshit.”
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These two charts tell you pretty much all you need to know about the state of the US economy. They also, unfortunately, provide some clues as to how this movie will end.
First, from John Mauldin, the state of the U.S. government’s finances. The red line is spending. The blue line is tax revenue.
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Jeff Jarvis reports from Davos…
First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in Adsense.
At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer, YouTube founder Chad Hurley, and counsel/”chief diplomat” (Schmidt’s joke) David Drummond in a Davos apartment dolled up with lava lamps, the execs discussed China, the company’s push into display, critics from France to News Corp., Android and its phone strategy, and news.
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While the first version of Apple’s iPad does not support video calls, future versions might, according to people taking a careful look under the hood of the iPad developer software Apple has released.
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“Our immersion in the details of crises that have arisen over the past eight centuries and in data on them has led us to conclude that the most commonly repeated and most expensive investment advice ever given in the boom just before a financial crisis stems from the perception that ‘this time is different.’
“That advice, that the old rules of valuation no longer apply, is usually followed up with vigor. Financial professionals and, all too often, government leaders explain that we are doing things better than before, we are smarter, and we have learned from past mistakes. Each time, society convinces itself that the current boom, unlike the many booms that preceded catastrophic collapses in the past, is built on sound fundamentals, structural reforms, technological innovation, and good policy.”
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