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How Inflation Could Be 66% Higher Than the Fed Reports
by Dan Burrows on Feb.16, 2011, under Towing
The Fed’s next consumer price report out Thursday is likely to show a scant 0.3% rate in January. So why does it feel like prices everywhere are climbing noticeably? A different way of measuring inflation from MIT’s Billion Prices Project provides an answer.
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How Inflation Could Be 66% Higher Than the Fed Reports originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:35:00.
Internet Didn’t Cause the Riots: Why Egypt’s Web Shutdown Won’t Work
by Jonathan Berr on Jan.28, 2011, under Towing
Have social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube become the weapons of revolution? Egypt’s president shut down the Internet on Friday to try to calm the protests rocking the country. But while the Internet may be an enabler of the demonstrations, it’s not the cause of the discontent.
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Internet Didn’t Cause the Riots: Why Egypt’s Web Shutdown Won’t Work originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:30:00.
Filed Under: Technology, People, Media
Do Early Peeks at Super Bowl Ads Pay Off?
by Aimee Picchi on Jan.21, 2011, under Towing
It used to be all about surprising game-day viewers with knock-out ads and creating buzz after the final whistle. But lately more advertisers are posting commercials online ahead of the game, trying to build early buzz instead. Which strategy works better? At risk is a tidy sum.
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Do Early Peeks at Super Bowl Ads Pay Off? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:00.
Filed Under: Company News, Media, Pepsico, Apple
More Downloads, Fewer Discs: U.S. Video Game Sales Remain Flat
by Danny King on Jan.13, 2011, under Towing
U.S. gamers spent about the same amount of money on video games last year as they did in 2009, even as sales of consoles and other hardware took a plunge. Purchases of physical game discs slid 5%, in spite of the record-breaking success of “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” but downloadable and social-network games made up the difference.
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More Downloads, Fewer Discs: U.S. Video Game Sales Remain Flat originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:00:00.
Filed Under: Technology, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, Retail
SEC Rules Could Push Facebook to an IPO in 2012, or Maybe Not
by Dawn Kawamoto on Jan.07, 2011, under Towing
Facebook expects its investor base will exceed 500 this year, a level at which the SEC will require it to disclose its financial results to the public. That may be enough to push the social networking giant into an IPO in 2012 — but founder Mark Zuckerberg could opt to release that data and keep Facebook private anyway.
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SEC Rules Could Push Facebook to an IPO in 2012, or Maybe Not originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:00:00.
Filed Under: Company News, Technology, Columns, Investing, Facebook
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