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How Google Music, Spotify and other subscription services compare
Google jumped into the music subscription market last week with Google Music All Access, escalating the competition in a crowded market. Although Google brings the biggest name to the market, many others already have large followings. Spotify stands out...
Tags: Sociology, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Apple iPhone, Trials, Apple iPad
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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business
SAN FRANCISCO — To punctuate his company's $1.1-billion purchase by Yahoo Inc., Tumblr co-founder and Chief Executive David Karp let loose in a blog post with a celebratory expletive. It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Computer Networking and Internet, Marissa Mayer, Social Media, Advertising
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Payvia buys mobile marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...Tags: Business, Consumer Goods Industries, Cox Media Group, Inc., Online Media Industry, Consumers
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Mobile payments company Payvia buys L.A. marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia announced Monday that it had acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. Payvia, based in L.A., said the deal would create a simplified all-in-one platform that enables companies to target consumers and provide...
Tags: Business, Consumer Goods Industries, Cox Media Group, Inc., Computer Hardware, Online Media Industry
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Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?
When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, AOL LLC, Skype, Marissa Mayer, Social Media
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Gluten-free: More new products than ever
A few decades ago, gluten-free products mostly meant rice cakes. Today, the category just won’t quit. Even industry analysts have been surprised at the strength of the gluten-free claim, said Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director at...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Celiac Disease, Allergies, Potato Chips, New Products
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Britain: Horror attraction combines dark ride with haunted maze
A unique new haunted attraction opening this summer at a small United Kingdom theme park will combine a walk-through horror maze featuring live actors with a dark ride journey inside an abandoned mine shaft. The Hobs Pit maze and ride is set to open...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Social Media, Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Sociology, Startups, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! Inc., Computer Hardware
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The Lone Cypress: Connecting with the most photographed tree in North America
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — You've seen the Lone Cypress. It stands along famously scenic 17-Mile Drive, raked by wind, swaddled in fog, clinging to its wave-lashed granite pedestal like God's own advertisement for rugged individualism. It may be 250...
Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Yosemite National Park, Golf, Arts and Culture
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Big 5 bets on smaller, easily accessible stores
Sometimes smaller is better. That's the philosophy of Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp., which owns 415 sporting-goods stores in 12 states, about half of them in California. The El Segundo company believes that operating a large number of easily accessible,...
Tags: Politics, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, Firearms, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Interior Policy
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...
Tags: Electronics, Gaming, Politics, Gaming Industry, Interior Policy
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In Brazil, Domino's makes rented DVDs smell like pizza
Don't forget the napkins when you watch a DVD in Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Domino's has teamed up with 10 rental stores to use movie DVDs for an unusual marketing push. Users pop in a rented DVD like they would any other, and after...
Tags: Brazil, Argo (movie), Skyfall (movie), Apple iTunes, Domino's Pizza Inc.
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