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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Mozes Raises $11.5 Million for SMS-Based Communities. Wants to Move Beyond Bands To Brands.	Palo Alto-based mobile startup Mozes has secured an additional $11.5 million in Series B funding from lead investor Maveron, as well as existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Mozes powers online communities for musicians that fans can join by texting special keywords to designated phone numbers. Once fans have opted into, say, the Death Cab for Cutie “mob”, they can keep track of that band through the Mozes website, their social network profil...	May 13, 2008
Best Buy Slides; RBC Cuts Ests On Consumer Spending Worries; CEO Says Canada Slowing; Food Or TV?	Best Buy (BBY) shares are sliding today following cautionary comments on the company from RBC Capital’s Scott Ciccarelli. Ciccarelli is still generally bullish on the stock, which he rates “Top Pick.” But he also says that he remains concerned about the broader consumer spending environment. Ciccarelli trimmed his estimate on same stores growth for the current year to 0%-1%, from 1%-2%. He cut his EPS estimate today for the February 2009 fiscal year to $3.35 from $3.50; his pr...	March 28, 2008
RSH: Is RadioShack Finally Worth Buying?	This article is a reprint of my March 10, 2008 RealMoney column I don’t expect RadioShack to grow. But it should be worth buying as long as they can limit their cash flow declines to 5% or so annually. Combined with a put-write strategy, it looks even better. RadioShack (RSH) is a company investors love to hate, and it isn’t hard to see why. Stocked full of stuff you occasionally need but often find elsewhere, it represents the unsexy part of consumer technology – wir...	March 17, 2008
Best Buy's foray into free 'How To' classes	Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Best Buy (BBY)In Idaho Falls, Idaho, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is doing something quite neat. The largest electronics retailer in the U.S. is providing free technology classes to customers in order to demystify all the high-tech gadgets like digital cameras, HDTVs and even the digital television converters that will allow recent, non-digital televisions to receive digital over-the-air TV broadcasts. Seeing as...	March 13, 2008
Best Buy to help new HDTV customers with satellite bill payments	Filed under: Good news, Consumer experience, Best Buy (BBY) Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is stepping up promotion of high-definition TV in its stores by paying for satellite bills of customers who buy a new HDTV along with DirecTV service. From looking at the details, it looks like a promotion like this is probably much more attractive than running constant "sales" on HDTV sets.Best Buy will pay $30 of a new DirecTV customer's monthly satellite television bill for 12 months as part of the promotio...	March 10, 2008
Verizon (VZ) hits an HDTV wall: Motorola (MOT)	Filed under: Bad news, Industry, Consumer experience, Motorola (MOT), Verizon Communications (VZ)Verizon (NYSE: VZ)'s roll-out of HDTV and broadband with its fiber-to-the-home product looked so promising. It even got shareholders in cable companies nervous. They were worried that the phone company would start to take away their digital cable TV customers. All of that was looking very good for Verizon until it started to run out of the set-top boxes that make the HDTV system work in homes. As if...	February 19, 2008
This Week in CrunchGear	PMA 2008 has wrapped up and we’ve had a ton of digital cameras introduced and upgraded. We got first dibs on a computerless 1.1.3 update for jailbroken iPhones and Touches, and gave a little info on “jailbreaking” your PSP as well. And as long as you’re fiddling with your iPhone, add a CrunchGear clip to your little desktop. Garmin, maker of sexy GPS devices, has announced their Nuviphone, which is hot but may need its answer and ignore buttons switched. On the practical...	February 01, 2008
Peter Moore to EA: As the Stomach Turns	Just when you thought the gaming landscape couldn't get any more surreal - Peter Moore, Head of the Xbox 360 Team at Microsoft, announces that he is leaving to become President of the EA Sports label. Congratulations, Pete! And as I was reading Engagdget's blurb on the goings-on, I couldn't help but be surprised by the tone of the announcement:It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card beca...	July 18, 2007
Microsoft (MSFT) Attacks The Living Room Through The Back Door	Microsoft (MSFT) has been trying for years to get consumers to use its software to bridge the digital divide between their PCs and TV. The latest attempt is the company's Media Center. There is little evidence that it has sold well. Almost by accident, the world largest software company has discovered another conduit to the TV--the Xbox 360. Microsoft has launched a new service called Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The purpose of the new operation is to allow Xbox users to have access to movies and...	July 02, 2007
Comcast's (CMCSA) Secret Sauce	Comcast (CMCSA) has decided to put money into a tech start-up which increases the speed at which data moves across broadband connections. Time Warner (TWX), Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) have already invested in the firm, BroadLogic, according to Reuters. The news service reports: "The company (BroadLogic) makes two main types of chip-sets, the TeraPIX video processor and Wideband Receiver, which recover bandwidth for cable operators and enhance their platforms, according to Comcast." If th...	June 16, 2007

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