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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Cut The Social Location BS And Get Right To Drinking With Happy Hour App	A lot of people use location-based apps to find out one thing: Which close-by bars have the best happy hours. But many of those apps include a wide range of other options that often muddle up the straightforward desire to drink. A new iPhone app aims to cut through all the other BS, and simply get you down to business. Happy Hour App, created by Boomtown Apps, has one purpose: To show you the locations of bars with happy hours. But it does it well. Once it figures out your location (you can also...	December 08, 2009
Meet J.P. Morgan Cazenove’s Star Bankers	In its five years of life, JP Morgan Cazenove has proved a lucrative joint venture for both Cazenove and J.P. Morgan Chase. Now J.P. Morgan is closing in on a deal to buy out its U.K. joint-venture partner for just under £1 billion ($1.67 billion), according to people familiar with the matter. The venture’s U.K. investment-bank league table positions show it is the leading adviser to British companies, with more than twice the number of corporate broking clients of second place Numis. It ...	November 16, 2009
Barking Up the Wrong Tree	After reading the news, participating in key industry conferences and doing some thinking, I've come to the following conclusion: the regulators - and Congress - are barking up the wrong tree. They would have you believe that the equity markets are rigged, retail investors are screwed and that the market structure is flawed. They would further argue that the equity markets are in need of dramatic new regulation, flash orders and high frequency trading are the root of all evil and that "...	November 06, 2009
Barking Up the Wrong Tree	After reading the news, participating in key industry conferences and doing some thinking, I've come to the following conclusion: the regulators - and Congress - are barking up the wrong tree. They would have you believe that the equity markets are rigged, retail investors are screwed and that the market structure is flawed. They would further argue that the equity markets are in need of dramatic new regulation, flash orders and high frequency trading are the root of all evil and that "dark pool...	November 06, 2009
MP3tunes Founder Fights Court Decision That Could Help Music Labels Bankrupt Him	Two years ago, a bunch of labels affiliated to music giant EMI Group sued both MP3tunes and its infamous founder Michael Robertson – former founder and CEO of MP3.com and currently running VoIP startup Gizmo5 – over alleged copyright infringement. A year ago, a judge did the sensible thing and tossed out the part of the case that could personally bankrupt the man. Fast forward to about two weeks ago, when a new ruling gave EMI again a way to go after Robertson’s personal assets...	November 03, 2009
A Bunch Of Hot Spammers Had The Day Off Of Work LOL.	Around noon Pacific time today, a small meme broke out on the Internet. At nearly the exact same time, over a dozen Twitter accounts all tweeted out the message “Oh i had the day off work lol. thats why im home.” All were sent out from what appear to be the Twitter accounts of cute girls. Why? Because they’re all automated spam accounts set up by some lame online dating site. Spamming a social network by creating fake accounts with pictures of cute girls is as old as social net...	May 18, 2009
Closing Bell: Solid Numbers, that aren't being taken back (AIG, BS, GS, LOW, PALM, STT, TWX, CETV)	Filed under: Time Warner (TWX), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Lowe's Cos (LOW), Palm Inc (PALM)Today's run might be more banked on Indian election results, one earnings report, and an analyst upgrade. The National Association of Home Builders reported a slightly more optimistic builder report as well, but today's gains were well entrenched with or without housing data. To show just how much these Indian stocks were up, here is a full list of how much the...	May 18, 2009
Once Again: 1981 Video Predicts The Death Of Print Newspapers	There’s a lot of talk today about how the new big screen Kindle could help save the bleeding newspaper industry. As we laid out last night, that is complete BS. But I think it’s worth revisiting a video we posted a few months back about the topic. It’s from 1981 (incidentally, the year I was born), showing that newspapers seemed to have some idea about what the future of their industry would be. It’s a common misconception that newspapers are simply late to the Internet g...	May 04, 2009
MySpace Music Announces Executive Team (Internal Memo)	MySpace Music, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels to provide free streaming music to users, is announcing its executive team this afternoon. The president of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced late last year. Today the company showing off the rest of the team. The key new executives are Jamie Kantrowitz (SVP Strategy and Global Marketing), Alex Maghen (CTO), Nancy Taylor (Lead Counsel, VP Business Development & Legal Affairs), Roberto Fisher (VP Product and Operati...	March 24, 2009
Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer	This guest post is written by Narendra Rocherolle, who was the co-founder of Webshots, a company that he and his partners sold to Excite@Home in 1999 and then again to CNET Networks in 2004. Now as a partner at 83 Degrees, he has been working on several products including 30 Boxes, fbExchange (sold to TMP), and most recently Power Twitter. When Lance Armstrong sat down with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit last November, he had been twittering for about 10 days and was jokingly asking tha...	March 14, 2009