Sometime after Feb. 22, when 2009’s credit card reform law begins to take effect, you’ll see changes on your monthly statements. The new format might tell painful truths, but it’ll be good for you.
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Archive for February 5th, 2010
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Maybe You Shouldn’t ALWAYS Be Instantly AvailablePosted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley Insider
Generationally I am pre digital native but I embraced the new communication and media consumptions paradigms early on, and though I have never had the patience or passion to be a bleeding edge adopter, I am a fast follower. End result is a blog and an active Twitter presence and all the trappings of the world weary tech world participant (the multiple filtered Gmail accounts, the Dropbox, a fully digitized personal life that I keep carefully away from the public eye). Real time is best left to Twitter See Also:
The nation’s unemployment rate fell in January, but employers shed 20,000 jobs, the Labor Department says. Here’s a look behind the contradictory numbers. Unusually strong crosscurrents are creating chaos in markets all over. We need to step back to sort out what’s happening with stocks, bonds, currencies and gold.
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7 U.S. States That Are Worse Off Than Greece, Portgal, Ireland, and SpainPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerFrom The Business Insider, Feb. 5, 2010:(This post appeared originally on the author’s blog, Gregor.us. … For starters, we’re not always careful or educated consumers. But let’s not take all the blame. Sometimes, the odds really are stacked against us.
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No, No, THIS Is The Greatest Super Bowl Ad Of All TimePosted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley InsiderMy colleagues at SAI just posted what they consider the 10 best tech Super Bowl ads of all time. Sorry, they missed the best one. By far! This E*Trade, from the year 2000, where the man is rushed to the hospital with money coming out of the wazoo, should take that list hands down. See Also:
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The 10 Best Tech Super Bowl Ads EverPosted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley Insider
Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year for the advertising industry. 30-second spots will cost advertisers somewhere between $2.5 and $2.8 million in 2010, and that’s actually a discount from recent years. It’s also one of the few times when television viewers actually want to see ads. For those prices, advertisers pull out all the stops, and the results are sometimes more impressive than the games themselves. See Also:
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AOL Just Hired The Guy Who Couldn’t Get CBS On YouTube (AOL, GOOG)Posted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley Insider
AOL’s new content boss, David Eun, is best known around his old company — Google – for being the “deal guy” who finally got the major record labels to come together with YouTube and create Vevo. See Also:
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Conan O’Brien Gathers ‘Facebook Army’ For Huge TV Comeback (GE, NWS)Posted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley Insider
Conan O’Brien will have millions of fans and a “Facebook army” behind him when he returns to TV airwaves in September. Jon Chattman at the Huffington Post interviewed Team Coco’s leader, Mike Mitchell. The California graphic designer created a Facebook site, organized rallies and spurred a viral sensation in honor of Conan. See Also:
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Fraud Charges May Finally Flush Out The Truth About What Happened Inside Bank Of AmericaPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerYesterday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed civil fraud charges against Bank of America and the company’s former CEO Ken Lewis and CFO Joseph Price. …
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Justice Dept to Google Books: Close, But No CigarPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizGoogle’s plan to digitize the world’s books into a combination research library and bookstore has hit another snag: The U.S. Justice Department says that ‘despite substantial progress made, issues remain’ with the proposed settlement agreement of the class-action suit which would let the project proceed.
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Springsteen Angry About Suit Filed By Springsteen And 9 Other Wild Legal Stories Of The WeekPosted by: siliconalleyinsider in Silicon Alley Insider
It’s that time of the week again! Here’s a round-up of this week’s strangest/weirdest/wildest stories. See Also:
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Mixed Bag: Unemployment Rate Falls to 9.7% but Job Losses Continue to MountPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerThe U.S. economy shed 20,000 jobs in January, a tad worse than expectations for a reading of flat to up 15,000. The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.7%, a five-month low. A falling unemployment rate is certainly good news for the Obama administrat This chart from Calculated Risk shows the decline in jobs as a percentage of the work force at the peak. To date in this recession, we’ve lost 8.4 million jobs. The decline as a percentage of the workforce is the worst since the Great Depression, matching the sharp but short drop in 1948, as the war machine wound down. Equally important, the duration of these job losses, as well as the lack of a sharp recovery (at least so far), suggests that the problem will be with us for a long while. We’re now 24 months into this decline, and we’re still at the bottom. By this point in most previous recessions, we had already recovered all of the lost jobs. See Also:
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