Market analysts were puzzledwhen Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) paid $650 million for Newsday last May. Almost one year later $400 million of write-down, it was obviously a bad move, but Cablevision's latest decision makes their initial purchase look like Seward's deal for Alaska. Cablevision just announce...

Move over Jack Sparrow- and make room for Dracula. After several years as the hottest thing in Hollywood, Pirates are in the past, and American's are bloodthirsty for Vampires. HBO's new series Trueblood became a cult hit and the rave among TV fans and critics this fall. Today, the movie Twilight hi...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Web in all its incarnations (the computer, mobile, through the television) has made the world a very, very small place. We can now connect with people near instantaneously, which means no good deed goes unblogged and no bad deed goes unwritte...

As airline's continue to battle the pressure of rising fuel prices and the sagging economy, Delta's latest cost-cutting move may prove to be the beginning of  a new trend in travel marketing, or just another source of annoyance to customers. It doesnt feature pricey-peanuts or baggage fees, ins...

I absolutely abhor predictive analysis for two reasons: I've rarely seen studies that followed up on the predictions to judge how viable certain companies are and I've rarely found myself believing what I'm reading. Despite my inherent bias, it's hard not to get a bit giddy reading a report that fou...

We've reached a tipping point with IP-based media systems, which is just a fancy way of saying that more people are using their computers to get information they used to get from other sources. Television is now delivered to computers and cell phones, untethering people from their living rooms. Unfo...

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Selling products is the Holy Grail online. For all the bluster about audience size and advertising, pure American consumerism is still the end-all, beat-all for companies. Amazon and Ebay have always understood that, although it's a bit unfair to hold them up as righteous examples because their mode...

The mobile Web is getting a power boost. NVidia, which makes high-end graphics chips for computers, released a high-end processor set for mobile devices that will make it easier -- and faster -- to surf online. That means all kinds of super-cool play for nerds like me, but practically speaking it me...

Ask.com has acquired Lexico , the company that owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and several other reference material properties. Many people had written off Ask when it laid off 8 percent of its staff earlier this year. This acquisition shows a new focus on answering natural language questions pos...