Amex Joins Flash Sale Space

American Express recently announced a new multi-year e-commerce deal to boost online business and establish ties with Web consumers. Amex plans to commit $100 million, with a focus on early stage e-commerce startups. Amex’s new digital commerce initiative will be run from its new Silicon Valley office, with Harshul Sanghi at the helm as managing [...]

Apple: A Giant Underdog?

It seems no matter how big Apple grows, it always maintains underdog status. The U.S. government’s supposed antitrust investigations (WSJ) are insanely arbitrary and their regulation of food, media and technology equally random. In recent months, anyone that reads a major metropolitan newspaper would have learned that GMO alfalfa is OK, but Apple taking a hefty [...]

Google To Foot WiFi Bill For Holiday Flights

On November 8 search giant Google announced a partnership with AirTran, Delta, and Richard Branson’s Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Internet to passengers during the holiday season. Travelers flying on AirTran, Delta or Virgin America between November 20, 2010 and January 2, 2011 will get free wireless Internet access on domestic flights, to [...]

Apple iPad: Coming to a Verizon Store Near You

Verizon Wireless customers everywhere are doing a happy dance because the cell network announced it will start selling the luxury tablet from Apple before the end of the month. The news that Verizon Wireless will start selling the Apple iPad on October 28 makes the rumors of a Verizon iPhone more plausible because now there [...]

Link Love: Girdles for Men, A StriVectin Investigation, Punk Perfume & Google’s Next Buy

What does heroin smell like? The remaining live members of the Sex Pistols have bottled their scent. Check out Hint’s review. The New York Times investigates the claims behind skin cream StriVectin and its Better Than Botox slogan. They also discuss the firm’s new products: a scrub and an eye product.  The company is now [...]

Top Five Summer Playlist Songs

Pandora is like the first cup of coffee in the morning-we’d survive without it, but not happily. Here are the top five songs on heavy rotation in the Pandora, iTunes and YouTube playlists. MGMT Kids For that upbeat mood-accept your reality and live in the present… Empire of the Sun Walking on a Dream Cheery, [...]

Google May Enter Social Media Space

Search giant Google may be entering the gaming and social media spaces, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The July 28 report by Ami Efrati cited unnamed sources that said Google has been talking with gaming firms, including Playdom, Electronic Arts‘ Playfish and Zynga Game Networks, which Google has a stake in. [...]

Droids For All! The Dirt on Samsung’s Cross-Carrier Droids

The mobile phone market is one that proves we modern humans want it all, in every aspect of our lives. Even when faced with a dizzying selection of cell phone and smartphone options, we still find some are lacking. They are expected to take photos and videos, function as a phone and an Internet browser, [...]

M.I.A. & Freedom of Speech

M.I.A., the British rapper of Sri Lankan descent, has released a new video that tests our first amendment rights and speaks to issues including discrimination and war. This comes at a time when we are about eight years into an Iraqi war and Arizona has just passed laws that essentially enable racial profiling. Some media [...]

How a Hedgie Grew a Heart…

A hedgie grows a heart and other musings on capitalism-on-steroids…

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