Dogster’s Risky Bet Against Ad Networks

Back in 2003, when many Web 2.0 companies were getting their start, they had a big leg up that didn’t exist in the late 1990s: Ad networks. Things as simple as Google AdSense or John Battelle’s Federated Media gave bloggers and even larger sites like YouT

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Dogster’s Surprisingly Serious Business

You’d think a dog and cat social network would be a pretty frivolous business even for Web 2.0 land. After all, wasn’t Pets.com one of the most notorious of dot com flame outs?You’d be wrong. Ted Rheingold, Dogster’s CEO and co-founder, has built a surpri

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Apple’s Black Friday Sale: No 15 Percent Discount

From Silicon Alley Insider, Nov. 28, 2008:No desperate price slashing from Apple today: Its “Black Friday” sales are, as in years past, conservative. Apple (AAPL) is offering about 4% off a 20-inch iMac, about 8% off its new MacBook, and 5%

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As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near?

From All Things Digital, Nov. 28, 2008:  When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad–as in nearly $1 billion bad–by buying almost seven million more of Yahoo shares, according to a re

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Will Black Friday Bargains Be Enough to Entice Consumers?

Today is Black Friday, the official start to the holiday shopping season. But despite deep discounts that began days ago, forecasters expect this retail season to be the worst in decades.”Shell-shocked” by the financial market crisis,

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Neuberger action moves to court

The sale of the Neuberger asset management arm of Lehman might have been agreed back in September, but it’s not quite a done deal. 
The whole process has been rather messy — Lehman put a majority percentage of the prized asset management arm up for sale in August, prior to filing for bankruptcy.  
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FDR and Obama Part 2: Bold Action and Experimentation

When he becomes president, Barack Obama would be wise to emulate Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s call for decisive action and experimentation, says Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.

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FDR and Obama Part 1: The First 100 Days

President-elect Obama recently said he was reading books about FDR’s first 100 days in office in 1933 during the Great Depression. One of those books was written by our guest, Jonathan Alter, also a columnist at Newsweek. …

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