Startup Rdio unveiled a new version of its music service at South By Southwest this week. We talk with Rdio about why music services like Rdio and Spotify are competing with each other less on the music catalog than on the social features of the services.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:24

Whitney Houson's will reveals some surprising mistakes and some estate planning lessons for everyone.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 16:23

Despite differing opinions about the long-term prospects for its business model, Groupon has made a ton of money for its early financial backers. So whom do they have to thank for their newly found largess? Not the kind of people one might assume would be scouring their emails for daily deals ranging from cut-rate hamburgers ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 16:23

This article is by Jeff Schmitt, a marketer and former online columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and in , Iowa. You can lose your whole team?s respect, and no one will ever even tell you. Years ago our team gathered at a posh steakhouse to celebrate blowing out our region?s sales goals. We cut loose, plucking ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:53

Mister Rogers entertained us with his song welcoming people to his neighborhood?but never did he mention a convicted felon being one of them. ??Dennis Kozlowski?s journey back to the free world has started with him being allowed to participate in a work-release program in Manhattan. ??He will be eligible to work a job and return ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:53

Why does government??bother with??trust funds? As the Senate's just-passed highway bill proved yet again, Congress is turning these funds into little more than accounting shams. In theory, it makes sense to establish special accounts where designated revenues are set aside for a specific purpose. But in practice, is grossly abusing the idea. There is a ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:17

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares S&P India Nifty 50 Index Fund (NASD: INDY) where we have detected an approximate $15.9 million dollar outflow ? that?s a 4.5% decrease week over week (from 14,550,000 to 13,900,000). Click here to find ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

For about a half-hour it looked like this year?s NCAA Tournament would begin with a massive upset. , lacking their big man Fab Melo, was on the ropes until the last six minutes of the game, when some dubious officiating gave the top-seeded team enough of a buffer to see them safely to the second ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

It?s become a regular ritual:?? waiting outside stores for the new iPad, as some people did today. But there was a time when even bigger throngs of people waited to look at new cars. Known as the Motorama, these annual events built into a formidable sales and marketing powerhouse. From 1949 to 1961, millions of ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

I just broke the story?? on SiliconANGLE.com that Chris Lynch, the CEO of Vertica a company he led in it's acquisition to HP for $350+ million, has resigned as head of HP's Vertica division effective immediately.???? SiliconANGLE reports that that Lynch informed the Vertica staff of his intentions to leave the company at an emotional ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:54