You know what I really hate about advertising? When it's such a brilliant product, that captures the mood perfectly, that I am reaching for my check book to order the product... and then a little tiny voice wonders if this might just be a viral video for a company that's lurking in the background. And my hopes and dreams are shattered.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 03:55

Stories about kids spending giant amounts of money in social games have become a regular fixture of the news cycle. It isn't hard to imagine how it happens: parent leaves the credit card on the account, kids grabs his or herself a few coins to pick up a few new farm tools, grabs a few ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 15:53

Both Visa and MasterCard continue to witness growth in their payments transactions as more people shift from cash/check to electronic payments.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:23

Double panel, dual axis and indexed graphs were drawn to examine the relationship of NYC Police Department stop and frisks to the number of murders in NYC. All of the graphs clearly show that the decrease in murder rate occurred before the huge increase in the number of stop and frisks.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:26

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Vanguard REIT ETF (AMEX: VNQ) where we have detected an approximate $127.7 million dollar inflow ? that?s a 1.1% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 175,796,873 to 177,805,709). Among the largest underlying components ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 16:26

With VIX up 2.9%, the double long TVIX is down 29%. How did this happen?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

New regulations are driving proprietary traders out of investment banking and into the hedge fund business. Here are ones to watch.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 22:55

Walmart Entertainment's announcement that its Vudu online video distribution division is partnering with the UltraViolet initiative to offer in-store "digital upgrades" to DVDs/Blu-ray discs is a major one. It represents the first true roll out of the UltraViolet system to the masses, and its success (or not) in the market will have a huge influence ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 23:54

? Chumps and hipsters may be tenting up outside of stores desperate for the new iPad and the chance to pplay Angry Birds with a shaper screen??hours before anyone else, but the real tech-savvy people are headed elsewhere for the very first next-gen tablets. Wal Mart is going to start selling limited stocks of the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:23

The chain will charge $2 to transfer a standard definition disc and $5 to upgrade to high-def.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 19:25