2008 June 01 | money news blog

01 06 2008

ComScore scores M:Metrics for $44.3 million

Posted by: admin in Social Media and Tech

Online number-crunching firm ComScore announced Wednesday that it has acquired M:Metrics, a mobile usage statistics company, for $44.3 million in cash and a handful of common stock options.

The reason for the buy is pretty obvious: as mobile phones make up a larger and bigger chunk of digital …

01 06 2008

Ideal Buy’s Geek Squad jumps on ‘Sex’ fever

Posted by: admin in Social Media and Tech

A goofy marketing gimmick plants Geek Squad 'agents' in select cities' theaters near screenings for 'Sex and the City,' designed to help male patrons escape the chick flick.

(Credit: Geek Squad)

The movie spinoff of Sex and the City hits theaters Friday, and if the …

01 06 2008

Journal: New study shows Libor rates in doubt

Posted by: admin in Investment News

Report: Libor might have been affected by low-balling dollar calculation By Riley McDermid, MarketWatch Last Update: 9:36 AM ET Might 29, 2008 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Banking giants including Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and UBS AG are contributing to erratic behavior in a major global lending benchmark, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citi (C), J.P. Morgan (JPM) […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

01 06 2008

AOL signs on to OpenSocial developer standard

Posted by: admin in Social Media and Tech

AOL will officially support OpenSocial, the developer standard created by Google for social-networking applications. The announcement was hinted at by Google Director of Engineering David Glazer in a speech at the Google I/O conference Wednesday.

The online service-turned-media brand will join pretty much each big player in on the web media …

01 06 2008

Financials Continue Stall Economic from Recovery

Posted by: admin in Investment News

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Financial shares led U.S. stocks slightly lower on Wednesday after KeyCorp hiked its outlook for loan losses and Citigroup Inc. stated American International Group Inc. might have to raise more capital. “The financial stocks are struggling today, so we’re still not out of the woods there,” said Paul Nolte, director of investment at Hinsdale […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

01 06 2008

ComScore scores M:Metrics for $44.3 million

Posted by: admin in Social Media and Tech

On the web number-crunching firm ComScore announced Wednesday that it has acquired M:Metrics, a mobile usage statistics company, for $44.3 million in cash and a handful of common stock options.

The reason for the buy is pretty obvious: as mobile phones make up a more massive and more massive chunk of digital …

Fore more visit Source: [webware]

01 06 2008

Papyrophobic but love sticky notes? Try Postica

Posted by: admin in General News

Postica has to be one of the more single-serving Web apps I’ve seen in a long time. The service lets you create a slew of tiny sticky notes that can be maneuvered around the confines of your browser with ajaxian flair. They don’t hover over pages you’re looking at like Diigo or Fleck; instead it’s all about your personal note space. Whatever notes you create are saved, and can be accessed from wherever. You can also share them with others, and they have the ability to send notes to your workspace, too.

Each note is confined to just 140 characters, the same length as an SMS text message or a note on Twitter. You can also add a single file to each note. I managed to get a few image files that were over 5MB in size, but it choked on the 50MB video file I tried. There’s no documentation on what the size limit is, or if you’ll run into any sort of cap on total storage so I’d stick to small files like PDFs, pictures, and office docs.

I’m still wary to suggest Postica over something like Shifd, a similar Web-based sticky note service that does a much superior job integrating URLs, addresses, and letting you access and sync up your notes on both desktops and mobile phones. The one area where Postica has the leg up is file sharing, but you’ve got to be patient for each upload to make its way there.

Little post-its made simple, but that's about all you can do with Postica.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

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01 06 2008

6 numbers that show we could try harder

Posted by: admin in Investing World

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense Fund.

Oil is over $100 a barrel now — an all-time high. Even if burning gasoline weren’t a major cause of global warming, a price that high is motivation to conserve.

But we don’t seem to be trying very hard.

Here are some numbers that make the point from Earth: The Sequel, the new book by EDF President Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. (All profits from book sales support our global warming work.)

Efficiency
Last December, Congress passed an Energy Bill that raised CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for the first time in 32 years. It took significant negotiation to push this through, and yet we’re still far behind Europe and Asia.

44.2 miles per gallon - Average fuel economy of the European car fleet, page 226.
45 miles per gallon - Average fuel economy of the Japanese vehicle fleet, page 226.
35 miles per gallon - Average fuel economy of the American car fleet when the newly passed CAFE standards are fully implemented in 2020 (up from less than 30 mpg currently), page 226.

Gasoline burned
It’s hard to wrap your mind around how much oil we actually burn. A post from earlier this year might help: Picturing 21 Million Barrels of Oil (the amount we burned last August).

$820 million - Amount the U.S. exports each day to pay for the oil needed to supply our car fleet, page 73.
180 billion gallons - Amount of gasoline and diesel fuel Americans consume each year in their automobiles, page 76.
2 billion gallons - Amount of gasoline that could be saved in the U.S. with a 10% reduction in the rolling resistance of tires (with no compromise on safety), page 224.

Clearly we need to do more to reduce our use of gasoline. Superior fuel standards are important, but there are many things we have the ability to do on our own. Check out some of our previous posts for tips: