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YouTube's Paid Subscription Model is Comcastic
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 3:11pm | 1086Not that long ago, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) spent millions of dollars on a campaign to tell consumers that their services were "Comcastic!" While the company never specified its meaning, many assumed that the word was a combination of "Comcast" and "fantastic." UrbanDictionary has a few other,...
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Priceline Customers: Bring Back the Negotiator!
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 2:10pm | 448The Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) Negotiator has come back from the dead as William Shatner is returning to the travel discount commercials, according to The Los Angeles Times. Perhaps this announcement caused the surge in Priceline shares during Wednesday trading since 94 percent of the company's...
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Have The Credits Rolled For Netflix?
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 10:40am | 1144News came out after the bell yesterday that Starz (NASDAQ: LTSZA) would be pulling its content from Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) effective February 28, 2012 after the two companies could not come to an agreement. Netflix wanted to give Starz more than $300 million per year, according to the Los Angeles...
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Amazon Willing to Invest Up to $500M in California to Squash Web Tax
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 5:51pm | 64Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is ready to build distribution centers and put hundreds of Californians on the payroll, in an effort to hold off state efforts to tax online purchases. The online retailer proposed the plan at a meeting Tuesday night between Amazon lobbyists and representatives of the...
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Why the World Will End if Google Buys Hulu
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 2:58pm | 913R.E.M. once sang about this moment. “It's the end of the world as we know it,” Michael Stipe sang loudly. He repeated those words a few hundred times, just be certain that we got the message. Today, we're getting that message loud and clear. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to take Hulu off the hands...
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Google+ Too Popular for Everyone, Now Only the Cool Kids Are Allowed Inside
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 1:20pm | 303It seems as if Google+, the company's long-awaited social networking entity (AKA its long-awaited Facebook-killer) is more popular than anticipated. Launching just two days ago, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) touted the service as being much safer and much more secure than other social networking sites....
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California Welfare Cards Can Be Used At Casino ATMs
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 1:51pm | 125According to the Los Angeles Times, welfare recipients are able to use their state issued debit cards on many of the state's gaming floors. Here is an excerpt from the Times article... "California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more...
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Tribune Co’s (TRCBQ) Los Angeles Times To Cut 80 Jobs
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 2:24pm | 100Tribune Co's (OTC: TRCBQ) Los Angeles Times said it would close its printing operations in Orange County, California, resulting in about 80 layoffs, as part of cost-cutting measures. The paper cited its publisher Eddy Hartenstein as saying in a memo that the measures would generate "substantial...