Cash Crunch At New York Times (NYT): $400 Million Due In May
The New York Times Company's 10Q (NYT) contains more details on the company's cash crunch. — Specifically, the company must deliver $400 million to lenders in May of 2009, six months from now.
Maybe We Don't Need So Much Credit
A friend of ours has started a “new economy” business; she makes delicious Vermont brownies and sells them online at vermontbrowniecompany.com. — Lots of brownies made with good Vermont ingredients ...
Sony rolling out iTunes plus
Let's just say we have a hunch on this one. Sony iTunes Plus high quality AAC files coming to the iTunes store in the next few weeks/months..same deal, 256kbit quality, no DRM. — Now when are they ...
PE Obama's 1st Big Mistake
Its great to see President Elect Obama aggressively taking on the economy prior to his taking office. Unfortunately, the economic advisory team that he has put together looks more like a semester's w...
Android Bug Reboots Phone Every Time You Type “Reboot”
The latest big bug discovered in Android has to be one of the craziest that's shipped with a phone. Basically, Android invisibly interprets every word as a command and executes it with “superuser pri...
SitOrSquat - Find a Clean Toilet Wherever You Are
It seems like bathroom locators are all the rage these days. We reviewed Diaroogle this past summer and there's the popular MizPee as well. Today we have learned about a new NY-based startup that is...
Conversation Consolidation: JS-Kit To Acquire coComment?
We're still looking to confirm, but alarm:clock says they've learned that web widget provider JS-Kit has agreed to acquire conversation tracking service coComment. — JS-Kit raised a total of $4.8 mi...
Clearing up inaccuracies about the Google OpenID IDP launch
Not exactly the post I want to write after a long week, but there have been several posts following the developer launch of the Google OpenID IDP. Unfortunately, those posts are inaccurate, and it is...