The Guardian:
• Carlo Ancelotti says Kakuta is best teenager he's seen• Ban for allegedly breaking transfer rules lifted by FifaCarlo Ancelotti may today hand a Premier League debut to the best teenage footballer he has ever seen, a player (Read More)
MarketingCharts:
A handful of lighthearted October holidays boosted traffic to flowers/gifts/greeting-card sites in October 2009, while online retail sites also saw surges from shoppers hoping to get a jump on holiday purchases, according to (Read More)
The Industry Standard - Comments:
Rich: I agree that most people will have far fewer issues with a new Mac than a new PC. The issue that must be considered is price. There is a huge population of people and bulk purchasers (think schools) who might have shell (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
GameStop will be opening at 6AM on Black Friday, a good 10 hours before most hardcore gamers normally wake up. The good news is that you can basically just stay up an extra couple hours, make your purchases, and then go home (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Markos Kaminis (Wall St. Greek) submits: An ugly trend in the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Applications Survey has real estate warning sirens blowing again. As the result of a relationship we see between mortgage act (Read More)
The Guardian:
The US manufacturer is under federal investigation for allegedly using illegal rosewood from Madagascar to make its guitarsGibson Guitars is under invesigation for alleged use of smuggled wood. US federal agents raided a Gibs (Read More)
SlashGear:
VISA hate carrying cash and they reckon you do too, and so they’re shouting about their new wireless payment systems. Recombu caught up with the company in Paris to look at three different ways of managing payments, ranging (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Burned by a scandal in its offer business over inappropriate promos, Offerpal Media is moving to set standards which forbids offers that are misleading, deceptive or otherwise objectionable.The action is the first move the co (Read More)
WalletPop Blog:
Filed under: Bargains, Shopping, Technology, Black FridayThe Walmart Black Friday ad leaked out to many deal collecting sites earlier this week, but until yesterday they kept it offline under threat of legal action by the meg (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's official, money transfer and mobile payment are among the most popular and lucrative mobile applications. In a report released earlier this week, Gartner identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications based on revenu (Read More)
SlashGear:
This past week I was at the opening of Apple’s latest store in NYC. It’s a work of art with a forty five foot glass wall, an all glass ceiling and marble walls. Along with that there’s the now iconic glass staircase. In many (Read More)
Mashable!:
For those of you waiting for the Facebook integration on the PS3 to roll out, the new version 3.10 firmware is now available. You’ll have to install the update, then look for the new Facebook Settings under the Account Manage (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
E*Trade Financial Corp. (ETFC) – A bearish risk reversal in the January 2011 contract on E*Trade today indicates long-term pessimistic sentiment on the online brokerage firm. ETFC’s shares were down this morning, but rebounde (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
The Archerfish “Mobile Video Intelligence System” has been renamed to Archerfish Quattro, presumably because “Mobile Video Intelligence” doesn’t roll off the tongue. The unit is on sale now at Amazon.com, making it easy to ad (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Today’s trade of the day brings you the silver trade. Some wildly bullish options activity was seen in sizable purchases of the Silver ETF (SLV). Investors expect as much of a 66% gain in silver prices over the coming two y (Read More)
Engadget:
"You know, that pallet of overpriced skin cream isn't going to stock itself. Maybe if you'd stop playing Bingo Bonanza you'd have done that already. Oh, you say you're scanning their RFIDs to add them to our system? Whatever, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With 100,000 apps in Apple’s AppStore, it has become ridiculously hard to get an app discovered. At any given time, perhaps 100 apps are easy to find on the featured apps or top apps lists. That’s why analytics startup Flurry (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Business:
Consumers in the Washington area are more confident in the region's economy than they were seven or eleven months ago, according to a survey released Wednesday, but they still are reluctant to make major purchases such as car (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Adrian Ash submits:"Gold feels frothy today," wrote Société Générale analyst Dylan Grice in a detailed report, "but [last month's] Indian purchase of IMF Gold eerily parallels the French purchases of the late 1960s. And ill p (Read More)