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Holiday 2008: A Year of Profit-less Prosperity?

Monday 01 Dec 08 22:38:38 GMT

As Henry and Aaron discussed this morning, Black Friday was better than expected both online and offline. But did consumers make out better than the actual retailers? Data shows nearly 40 percent of consumers say their holiday shopping is done after

Market Mauled -- Indices Down 9 Percent

Monday 01 Dec 08 21:20:15 GMT

From ClusterStock, Dec. 1, 2008:Whoa, so the market really didn't like the Hillary Clinton announcement. Not really, but since the media will come up with all kinds of reasons why the market tanked -- the official recession announceme

GM Finally Figuring Out How to Save Itself

Monday 01 Dec 08 17:28:17 GMT

From ClusterStock, Dec. 1, 2008:You would think that having a survival plan would be the first order of business for most management teams, but apparently not GM's. Only now that it has been provisionally stiffed by the US taxpayer and ordered to come

Yahoo Fact and Fiction: Icahn Ups Stake, But No Microsoft Search Deal (Yet)

Monday 01 Dec 08 17:22:36 GMT

Not a day goes by, it seems, that Yahoo isn't in the news or the subject of some rumor. Over the long holiday weekend, Tech Ticker's parent provided fodder for conversation at some dinner tables, regarding the following:Late last week, regulatory filings

Black Friday Actually Better Than Expected, Including eCommerce

Monday 01 Dec 08 15:59:19 GMT

From ClusterStock:It wasn't anything to scream and yell about, but retail sales on Black Friday appear to have been better than expected, including eCommerce. Retail sales jumped 3% year over year, according to one research firm (some have expected ho

Thanksgiving Rally Looking Like a Turkey

Monday 01 Dec 08 15:47:07 GMT

Coming off the best 5-day rally since the 1930s, stocks struggled Monday morning as traders returned from the holiday weekend in a selling mood.In recent trading, the major averages were each down more than 4%, with the Dow down 374 points to 8,454.Althou

Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding

Monday 01 Dec 08 14:28:08 GMT

From All Things Digital, Dec. 1, 2008:A BoomTown Interview with Oak Investment’s Fred HarmanThe Huffington Post will announce this morning that it has raised $25 million, in a single investment from Oak Investment Partners.The large round by Oa

Mark Cuban Slams SEC

Monday 01 Dec 08 14:08:25 GMT

From ClusterStock.com, Nov. 30, 2008:(But Says It Has "Nothing" To Do With His Situation) What was Mark Cuban doing at 2:00 AM this morning? Posting to his blog about a new OIG report critical of the SEC. ...

Dogster's Risky Bet Against Ad Networks

Friday 28 Nov 08 18:00:11 GMT

Back in 2003, when many Web 2.0 companies were getting their start, they had a big leg up that didn't exist in the late 1990s: Ad networks. Things as simple as Google AdSense or John Battelle's Federated Media gave bloggers and even larger sites like YouT

Dogster's Surprisingly Serious Business

Friday 28 Nov 08 17:00:00 GMT

You'd think a dog and cat social network would be a pretty frivolous business even for Web 2.0 land. After all, wasn't Pets.com one of the most notorious of dot com flame outs?You'd be wrong. Ted Rheingold, Dogster's CEO and co-founder, has built a surpri