The excerpt below is from Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter. (See the letter in its entirety at Berkshire Hathaway's website.)"Not all of our businesses are destined to increase profits. When an industry's underlyingeconomics are crumbling, talented management may...
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"Yahoo is hoping a quirky take on the news will strike a chord as its next original programing effort.The Web giant confirmed Wednesday that it will launch a video project before the end of this quarter that will feature a journalist-cum-crooner who will sing the news.AYahoo...
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HUNDREDS TURN OUT TO PROTEST HOTEL GANSEVOORT'S
8-STORY HIGH BILLBOARDS
*Owners Dig in their Heels on $1 Mil./Yr. Sign
*Strategy Meeting to Plan Next Steps this Wednesday at 5 pm
Billboard Protest: About
200...
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Maybe a coincidence but i noticed that our drinking water had a foul smell to it last night. I think i will switch to bottled for the time being.Authorities in New York are investigating a persistent gas smell across a large part of lower Manhattan.Police said they were...
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Barry is a talented NYC based artist, yoga practitioner/teacher and all around nice guy. He's the featured artist at Moleskinerie.com. Here's his blurb from the site:"I bought my first moleskin right before a trip to...
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This looks great - i hope someone makes me an offer i can't refuse."Home listing site Zillow is making it possible to shop for homes that are not necessarily for sale with their new Make Me Move function, which launches on Thursday. Home owners who may have no intention of...
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Trump Lies and Violates Zoning: GVSHP became aware today that the website for Donald Trump’s planned 45-story condo-hotel at Spring and Varick Streets has been soliciting prospective buyers by asking if they plan to use their condo unit as a “primary...
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In 2001 Yahoo needed to hire a new CEO, deal with execs who were bailing left and right, cut costs, reorganize its internal structure and hone the overall strategy of the company. Almost six years later isn't Yahoo back where it started? Crowd-powered media is catching on....
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Positioning itself as an independent third party, ClipSyndicate is distributing short-form video clips for Clear Channel and Sinclair stations. Other broadcasters may follow.By Wayne KarrfaltThe National Broadband Co. (NBBC), a joint venture of NBC and its affiliates, is a...
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"Last night was the year-end edition of the NY Tech Meetup, the monthly event organized by Meetup founder Scott Heiferman. It's a popular local event for the (re)emerging Silicon Alley set, usually drawing a crowd of over 500.
One of this month's features was a set of...
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"Last week, the new media community witnessed a rare sight. Google admitted a product had failed. Google Answers had been an uncharacteristically low-tech solution for users seeking the detailed information a regular Google search doesn't provide. Users posted a question and...
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Newsweek Senior Editor and writer of The Technologist column, Steven Levy, gave a great talk at the NYC Tech Meetup to promote his new book, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Culture, Commerce and Coolness. I...
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"An 18-year-old North Carolina man, suspected of stealing two PlayStation 3 consoles, was shot dead by police executing a search warrant at his residence.Peyton Strickland was gunned down in his house by deputies as...
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"Paul Sloan at Business 2.0 reports that NameMedia has acquired AfterNIC. (Paul's the author of the Bob Parsons article I mentioned last week.)I just checked out NameMedia's website. Like Demand Media, they too focus...
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"Yahoo might be taking cues from obsessive fan blogs about specific brands: It has identified more than 100 properties that are the most popular, or fastest-growing, with its users and is building what it calls a...
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Zillow Knows That Everyone Has A Price