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How Netflix Lost 800,000 Customers and Good Will                       Netflix

 

Understanding the Facebook Vs. Greenpeace Feud                    Facebook

Amazon Spends Millions to Fight Internet Tax                               Amazon

The Transcendence of Kickstarter                                                   Kickstarter

Eventbrite:  Easy Tickets for Events that You Create                     ideas

To Slow Piracy, ISPs Ready Penalties                                             the Internet

Facebook Offers Video Chat Via Skypa                                      Facebook

Stores Demand Mannequins with Personality                              stores

 Men's Razor Blades with Scents                                                   glass

Loyalty in the Work Place is Gone.  Now There's Only Trust           trends

Ticketmaster Plans Variable Pricing Policy                                    Ticketmaster

YouTube Sends Violators to Copyright School                              YouTube

A New Facebook Lawsuit: Man Claims 50% Stake                       Facebook

For Flip Video Camera, from Hot to Obsolete in 4 Years             technology

The History and Contents of Pringles                                             history

A History of Horrible Corporate Logo Redesigns                          history

Hair Club for Men 2.0                                                                   hair

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Suing Over Use of "App Store"          language

10 Bizarre Business Ideas that Made Millionaires                           history

Netflix's First TV Show?                                                                   David Fincher

A Simply Ingenious Idea:  Streaming DVDs                                    film

At Best Buy, Pay to Trade in Your Old Items                                    Best Buy

Facebook's Role in the Egyptian Revolts                                     Egypt, Facebook

AOL Buys the Huffington Post                                                      media

Disney Tries to Hook Young Mothers After Birth                        Disney

 Cigarettes for $2.70 a Pack, But You Have to Help                    cigarettes

 Home Depot Revamps to Try to Include Women                      Home Depot

Zilok:  Rent Out Anything                                                             websites

A Company that Makes Your Life into a Game                          games

Facebook Wins Few Friends in Japan                                           Facebook

Computers that Trade on the News                                           Wall Street

A Company Devoted to Brainstorming                                       ideas

Tata's Nano:  The Car that Few Want to Buy                               cars

Taking Sides in a Divorce...Chasing Profit                                    divorce, marriage

 Tools to Help Companies Control Social Media          technology

A New Search Engine, Where Less is More                              [search engines]

Pontiac, 84, Dies of Indifference                                             [cars]

Bringing 'Brooklynized' Water to Florida                                  [water]

Will Apple's Culture Hurt the iPhone?                                      [Apple, iPhones]

High Internet Traffic, Low Revenue                                          [advertising]

Facebook and Microsoft Team Up to Fight Google                [Facebook]

To Fix Bad Breath, a Gadget Seen and Bought on YouTube    [halitosis]

Baby Naming Consultants                                                        [babies]

Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy                                             [Blockbuster]

Facebook Hopes Credits Make Dollars                                  [Facebook]

Boeing Plans to Fly Tourists to Space                                      [space]

An App that Rewards You for Walking in Stores                     [apps]

Barnes & Noble Up for Sale                                                     [books]

In Ruling on iPhones, Apple Loses a Bit of Its Grip                   [iPhones]

Facebook Can't Tell So Well If You are Dead                          [Facebook]

YouTube Will Pay its Most Promising Video Creators                [YouTube]

Recessions:  Bad for Employees, Goldmine for Employers        [recessions]

Once Just a Site with Funny Cat Pictures, Now an Empire       [The Internet]

Microsoft Kin Discontinued After 48 Days                                  [Microsoft]

Aiming at Rivals, Starbucks Will Offer Free Wi-Fi                        [Starbucks]

Virgin Group Takes Chance on Quasi-Gambling Site               [Virgin]

Nintendo and Sony Show Competing Visions of 3-D                [Nintendo, Sony]

Push to Market Pill Stirs Debate on Female Sexual Desire          [sex]

Mexican Police Cracking Down on Pirated Piñatas                  [piñatas, Mexico]

Paper-Rich, Cash-Poorf                                                                                   [money]

Wal-Mart Invests in College Education for Its Employees           [Wal-Mart]

Are Bustaurants the New Food Truck?                                        [trends, food]

App Makers Worry: Caps on Data Might Mean Less Apps          [apps]

Elementary School-Turned-Strip Club Bothers Alumni                  [strip clubs]

Cell Phone as Loyalty Card                                                         [cell phones]

Reserve Tables at Chic Restaurants...at a Discount                     [websites]

Web Start-Ups Offer Bargains for Users' Data                                [entrepreneurship]

Google Launches iTunes Competitor                                           [Google, iTunes]

Apple Surpasses Microsoft in Market Value                                   [Apple, Microsoft]

Social Networks Seize on Troubles at Facebook                           [social networking]

Idea Man at LimeWire at a Crossroads                                         [LimeWire]

Pay-What-You-Want at Chain Restaurant Confuses Many            [restaurants]

Microsoft Office to Be Free on the Internet                                    [Microsoft]

Four Dudes Get Investment Money to Destroy Facebook             [entrepreneurship]

A New Role for YouTube:  An Outlet for Live Sports                        [YouTube]

The Lean Start-Up                                                                          [entrepreneurship]

Sony PlayStation to Stream Pro Baseball                                     [PlayStation]

The Internet's New Wave:  Share Everything                                [The Internet]

Camel Orbs                                                                              [cigarettes]

Everything You Need to Know about Fast Food                      [food, fast food]

Tensions Rise for Twitter and App Developers                           [Twitter]

How Colombia's Famous Coffee is Challenging Starbucks     [Colombia]

MasterCard Opens an Online Store that Predicts                     [MasterCard]

Google Exits Mainland China                                                    [Google]

The Old Computer Mainframe...Back in Fashion                       [computer]

'Mad Men' Dolls                                                                          [toys]

Stevia:  The Newest Contender in the Sweetener War               [artificial sweeteners]

How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard                                    [Pandora, music]

Nintendo Will Sell E-Books on the DSI                                           [Nintendo]

Coded to Obey Law, Marlboro Lights -> Marlboro Gold             [cigarettes]

Apple Selectively Bans Sex-Tinged Apps                                        [Apple]

6 Months, $90,000, and (Maybe) a Great Idea                              [venture capitalism]

Pepsi Invites the Public to Do Good                                         [Pepsi, philanthropy]

Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe with Your Allowance)                   [video games]

Johnson and Johnson’s Odd Foray into Self-Therapy                [advertising, websites]

Xbox Takes on Cable, Streaming TV Shows and Movies           [Xbox, Microsoft]

Nintendo Wii Joins PS3 to Stream Netflix Movies                      [Netflix]

Google Angers Many by Not Answering the Phone                 [Google]

Blippy is Like Twitter, but You Share What You are Buying         [websites]

On Web, Workshops to Create One-of-a-Kind Gifts                  [recessions]

McDonald's Pulls Out of Iceland                                                [Iceland]

Priligy:  A Drug to Control Premature Ejaculation                     [pharmaceuticals]

Virgin Galactic to Unveil New Spaceship in Mohave Desert     [Virgin Galactic]

No Gossip Allowed                                                                    [gossip]

Microsoft Asks News Sites to Block Google                                [Google, Microsoft]

Google Struggles and Does UnGoogle-Like Things in Japan     [Google]

Joke Products that Occasionally Become Real and Sold          [ThinkGeek]

The Decline of the MBA Will Cut Off the Supply of Bullsh*t          [MBAs, education]

A 16 Year-Old Selling Star Maps in the Hamptons                       [the Hamptons]

A Fake Hamster is the Season's Hottest Toy                                [toys, Zhu Zhu pets]

A Genetic Company Fails, Its Research Too Complex               [genetics]

A Holiday Gift of Some Free Wi-Fi                                               [technology]

Rent a Designer Dress the Netflix Way                                        [fashion, Netflix]

Disney Remakes Mickey's Image...Now He's Cantankerous       [Disney, Mickey Mouse]

Sex Calls to Iowa: Why Google Doesn't Like Its Phone Bill         [Google]

The Playboy Mansion Has Seen Better Days                                [Hugh Hefner, Playboy]

No Einstein in Your Crib?  Get a Refund                                     [Disney, Baby Einstein]

Dirty Tricks to Push Your Online Shopping Cart Through             [the Internet]

For $80 a Year, Your Kids Can Read Disney Books Online           [websites, Disney, parenting],

You and Your Facebook Friends are Being Sold                         [Facebook, social networking]

The Porn Industry is Among the Worst Hit by the Recession        [porn, sex, recessions]

Facebook's Becoming More and More Twitter-Like                    [Facebook, Twitter]

Goodbye to BS Fact Tags in Best Buy and the Like                      [fact tags, computers, Best Buy]

Quirky.com:  You Invent. They Produce. Everyone Profits?         [Quirky.com, websites, innovation]

Six Sigma Vs. Design Thinking                                                      [Six Sigma, Design Thinking]

Tesco Uses Weather to Predict Sales                                            [Tesco, the weather]

Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Billion                                                   [Disney, Marvel, entertainment business, comics]

Financial News:  Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust        [Yahoo, the news, Google]

Greyhound's Buses to Roll in London                                           [Greyhound, bus travel, transportation]

Grand Plans to Bring Japanese "Smart" Toilets to the US             [Toto, toilets, Japan]

The Spread of Pop-Up and Vanish Retailing                                [pop-up retailing, trends]

The Potential for Twitter to Reap in Millions                                 [Twitter]

Google Plans a PC Operating System                                         [Google, computers]

We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?                                    [textbooks, websites]

Air New Zealand's Body-Painted In-Flight Safety Video                [Air New Zealand, body painting, airlines]

Apple's Obsession with Secrecy Grows Stronger                          [Apple]

The End of 20th Century Props                                                     [recessions, entertainment business]

MySpace Lays Off 400 Workers                                                      [MySpace, recessions]

Muzak Files Chapter 11 and Young Rival Grows                          [Muzak, recessions]

Six Flags is Bankrupt                                                                      [Six Flags, recessions]

Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon                   [Google, Amazon, e-books]

The Today Sponge is Back                                                             [the Today Sponge, prophylactics]

Microsoft Profit Falls for First Time in 23 Years                                 [Microsoft]

Oaksterdam University:  How to Open a Pot Franchise                [marijuana, drugs, education, how to]

Struggling Malls Offer Indoor Surfing and More                              [recessions, malls]

The Growth of Hadoop as a Search Engine (and More)                [Hadoop, search engines]

Industry Claims That Smartphones Belong in Classroom               [education, telephones, cell phones]

How Google Decides to Pull the Plug                                           [Google]

Maker of Equal Sweetener Files for Bankruptcy                              [recessions, Equal]

Amish Leave the Farm and Flock to Small Business                       [the Amish]

The Hike on Text Messaging Fees                                                    [text messaging, cell phones]

Mexican Shoppers Go North, Hunting for Bargains                        [Mexico]

$1,000,000 If You Can Improve Netflix's Cinematch by 10%           [Netflix, competitions]

A Rolling Smithsonian for "Seinfeld" Freaks                                     [Seinfeld, museums]

A Tale of 2 Businesses and Their Facebook Fiascos                         [Facebook]

Microsoft Drops Vista                                                                      [Microsoft]

The Google Black Hole                                                                   [Google]

Cellphone Termination Fees Seem to Be Disappearing                  [cell phones]

An E-Commerce Empire, From Porn to Puppies                             [porn]

New Tech Start-Up Devoted to Mastering Chocolate                    [chocolate]

Haggling in Megastores?                                                                [haggling, trends]

How to Build a $2,500 Car                                                              [how to]

Netflix Partners with LG to Bring Movies to TV                                [Netflix, LG]

The Birth and Slow Death of the Mall                                             [trends, malls]

In Restless Pursuit of Craigslist’s Success                                         [Craigslist]

As the Ball Drops, Dieting Companies Swarm Nearby                   [diet]

Shopdropping, Opposite of Shoplifting, Increasing                       [shopdropping, crime, trends]

Ask.com Is Betting on Privacy                                                         [civil rights, ask.com, search engines]

Slot Machines for the Videogame Age: Skill Required                    [gambling]

Dyslexia Can Help Entrepreneurship                                               [dyslexia, learning disabilities]

17¢ Surcharge Against Netflix?                                                       [Netflix]

The Business of Sleep                                                                      [sleep]

Why Blockbuster is Gaining on Netflix                                            [Blockbuster, Netflix]

There Are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World                                           [advertising]

A Bookshop? A Yoga Studio? No: Your Local Bank.                      [banks]

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