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Last Bytes: Cyber Monday, iPhone, YouTube, more
Cyber Monday sales were up 15 percent over last year. [NYT]Live TV is coming to the iPhone. [TechCrunch]YouTube is cracking down on suggestive content. [Ars Technica]Rupert Murdoch newspapers have different opinions on Jonathan Miller's possible Yahoo buyout. ... Read Blog
The Problem With InTrade
I recently withdrew money from an InTrade account I've had for some years. The total cost of withdrawing the money was $53.10: A $20 fee to InTrade for "processing the bank wire", a €10 ($13.10) wire-transfer fee ... Read Blog
Inauguration Invitation: Priceless? Not Really
Obama-philes hoping to make the trek to Washington in January have been saying that it's impossible to put a price on the value of being there to witness the swearing in of America's first black president. Want ... Read Blog
Late Breaks: Eliot Spitzer's New Side Project
-The Financial Times has joined the parade of newspapers freezing hiring and asking employees to take buyouts. [Reuters] -Time Out's investors are putting the title's New York edition up for sale, hoping to fetch $40 million for ... Read Blog
Should the Fed Go Long?
I missed this bit from Bernanke in my earlier post: Although conventional interest rate policy is constrained by the fact that nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero, the second arrow in the Federal Reserve's quiver--the provision ... Read Blog
Morning Hemlines: Mervyn's, Fred Leighton, Imitation of Christ, Holidays, Luxury Ads, Vintage
Cerberus Capital Management and the other private equity investors in department store chain Mervyn's made $250 million off the deal--even though the company is shutting down, and 18,000 workers being laid off. (WSJ) Analysts foresee a grim ... Read Blog
SNL Strives to Keep Election Momentum
It's been a banner year for Saturday Night Live, which has enjoyed record ratings since Tina Fey first teased her hair, donned a bracelet-sleeve blazer, and started dropping her g's in a parody of Republican vice-presidential candidate ... Read Blog
The Mystery of President Obama
On January 20, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. And lIke Franklin Delano Roosevelt did as he took the White House while facing the Depression, he'll have to make ... Read Blog
Jack Flack Says Thank You.
Humble blogger finally expresses appropriate appreciation. Read Blog
Google's Cash Cow: You
Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a ... Read Blog
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