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April 24, 2008 News and Trends

Ford’s Foreign Ops Deliver $100m Profit

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:56:46 PDT
Ford's CEO Alan Mulally might disagree with whoever said "you can't cut your way to profitability." After cutting jobs, cutting salaries, cutting supply complexity and cutting entire divisions, Ford reported a first quarter net profit of $100m. That's a lot better than first quarter last year, when they turned in a deficit of $282m. But wait... The Wall Street Journal reports that FoMoCo earned (pretax) $257m in South America, $739m in Europe and $1m in Asia and Africa. Ford Credit added anothe

The Momentum Effect In Effect

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:10:48 PDT
The Momentum Effect In Effect April 24, 2008 10:59 AM Posted by Mitch Joel "The 'Momentum Effect', is a term created by Marketing Revolution that measures the effect of a brand within a social network and examines consumer -to- consumer communication." This is what I grabbed from the WebProNews article titled, Social Networks Provide "Momentum Effect". It's some kind of new metric that looks at how many times individuals post about brands - either in their profiles or when connecting to other

Truck Kids Room Wins Kips Bay Decorator Showdown

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:32:14 PDT
When you're filling a modernist landmark, more is not more after all. The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is an Upper East Side institution: a select handful of society decorators each get a room in some townhouse, which they inevitably over-re-do in order to woo new clients from among the paying visitor stream. And everyone can spend $75,000 for each window treatment with a clear conscience, because the $30 admission fees all go to charity! Anyway, the Show House does give an interesting window

Al-Qaeda Lifts Propaganda From Spoof News Website

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:33:05 PDT
If you thought the twilight zone insanity of the propaganda being desperately spewed forth in order to prolong the "war on terror" wasn't ludicrous enough, this week it got worse, after Ayman al-Zawahiri, or whoever is using him as their personal sock puppet, directly lifted a spoof news satire piece and incorporated it into his diatribe.

N'Sync star speaks out for Day of Silence

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:05:15 PDT
Gay bishop to attend Lambeth conference despite previous rejection The most senior openly gay cleric in the Anglican Communion, Gene Robinson intends to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference to be held in Caterbury despite previously refusing to. Popularity: 13% ?] Video: PinkNews editor takes Boris Johnson to task At the Stonewall hustings for the Mayor of London, chair of the hustings, PinkNews.co.uk editor, Tony Grew, took Conservative Party Candidate Boris Johnson to task. Popula

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They are willing to fight for their country and even die for their country, everywhere but in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Through accounts from the ...


Another Super Tuesday -- Pennsylvania Edition

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:19:44 PDT
By Michael J.W. Stickings UPDATED FREQUENTLY. SEE BELOW. 9:11 pm -- Hello, everyone. As Creature mentioned -- and make sure to read his excellent Pennsylvania primary post right below this one (or click here) -- I was on CTV Newsnet earlier this evening for a live interview segment with prime-time host Marcia MacMillan. For those of you who aren't Canadian, Newsnet started out as a sort of CNN Headline News. It has recently morphed into a rival to CBC Newsworld, the other major 24/7 news netwo

The Nerds Giveth and the Nerds Taketh Away

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:55:42 PDT
Prom Proposal makes Main Stream news... It was nearly one of those heartwarming stories of the cooperation of an online community bring two people together. This fellow used photos of himself holding signs to ask a girl to prom and asked Digg to raise the profile of his offer so she'd see it.

Sky News: 'Wii Sold Out': Why You Can't Buy Fitness Game

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:29:30 PDT
Wii fit sold out

Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:06:45 PDT
A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service.

WWE ECW Results - 22nd April

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:04:46 PDT
All the latest ECW results AND news, a must see!

Political Talk :: RE: More hate speech...

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:00:25 PDT
Author: FlintConservative Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:03 am (GMT -4) Topic Replies: 42 quote: UncleEffort schreef: Sounds like religion to me. Sorry you can't differentiate. quote: Who said he has? Maher said the Pope "operates outside the bounds of the law." That certainly implies he's done something illegal. quote: Bad news for the Baptists. Still nowhere near the scale(numbers & money) as what happened in the Catholic church. I could have swo

Enewsbar.com Scrolling News Ticker Now Serving Newsfeeds From All Headline News Corp.

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:01 PDT
Wellington, FL (PRWEB) June 3, 2004 -- Enewsbar.com, a subsidiary of Intellim Research Inc., announced today that it is adding newsfeed services provided by All Headline News to its desktop scrolling...


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