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28 Jan 2009 18:49

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Biz, Music: The Smashing Pumpkins’ newest song gets a Super Bowl ride

  • The combination of Hyundai’s exciting new Genesis Coupe matched with music performed by Smashing Pumpkins offers the perfect ‘kick-off’ to Super Bowl advertising.
  • Joel Ewanick • Hyundai Motor America’s vice president for marketing, who we imagine was gritting his teeth when he said this phrase regarding the placement of the Smashing Pumpkins’ “FOL” in one of their Super Bowl commercials. Yo-Yo Ma also gets the placement treatment from Hyundai; Yo-Yo Ma may actually be cooler than Billy Corgan at this point. • source
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28 Jan 2009 17:55

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Biz: Massive job cuts, store closings brewing for Starbucks

  • at least 300 more Starbucks locations will close. It’s unknown how many are across the street from one another. source
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28 Jan 2009 16:56

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Biz, U.S.: Here’s a visual to put those scary economic numbers in perspective

Interest rates have gone down like this in the last two years. Yeah. Scared yet? source
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28 Jan 2009 16:47

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Biz, U.S.: Scary depressing numbers of the day (they’re about the economy)

  • 0-0.25% the current Federal interest rate, a historical low; the Feds are willing to take drastic measures to speed up the economy source
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28 Jan 2009 09:03

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Biz, Tech: Is Amazon about to drop another Kindle on the world?

  • If so, let’s hope the new one isn’t so ugly. Amazon scheduled a press conference for Feb. 9. Oh-oh-oh! It’s not just any press conference. They describe it as “an important” one. CEO/founder Jeff Bezos will be there, and it’ll probably be something big, possibly a new Kindle. Does this sound like something Apple would do when they’re launching, say, a new iPod? Hmm … yeah. source
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27 Jan 2009 18:25

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Biz, Tech: To our friends at The Printed Blog: Congrats, guys!

They actually got a first issue out the door. And it looks pretty neat. Best of luck! source
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27 Jan 2009 18:16

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Biz: Journos to world: Forget corporations. Let’s buy a newspaper!

  • OK, it’s not fancy, but it’s there. Some enterprising anonymous person has put up a kinda-clever jab at the newspaper industry’s impeding self-destruction. “Let’s Buy a Newspaper” is looking for a pool of donations to buy some of the many newspapers currently on the market. Tops on the list? The Miami Herald, which is in a pretty cruddy part of the country economy-wise, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which faces a 60-day death march if it isn’t sold. Pssh, forget newspapers, guys! Starting your own blog is where it’s at. source
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27 Jan 2009 09:19

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Biz: Another goofily-named guy arrested in an alleged Ponzi scheme

  • $400 million, the size of Nicholas Cosmo’s empire source
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26 Jan 2009 12:41

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Biz: Today’s big scary number (it has to do with jobs)

  • 77,000 total job cuts were announced today source
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26 Jan 2009 10:16

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Biz: Pfizer and Wyeth; two weird names, one massive drug company

  • $68 billion, the amount Pfizer is paying to buy Wyeth source
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