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GILBERT, AZ–(Marketwire - January 21, 2009) - FLIPP Real Estate LLC, has officially launched
a new real estate sales tool called ‘FLIPP MOBILE.’ The new product allows
builders the opportunity to create a mobile web site with their own unique
URL. The builder or Agent can then showcase all of their inventory without
competing with other [...]
AP - U.S. consumers may have stayed home this holiday season, but no matter for Apple, which managed to turn a profit in the last quarter as people elsewhere stocked up on iPods, Macbooks and other goodies.
AFP - Japanese companies on Thursday unveiled a security robot that can be operated remotely by cellphone and launch a net to capture an intruder.
AP - Apple Inc.’s famous veil of secrecy appears to have stretched thin in trying to cover thousands and thousands of Wal-Mart stores.
AP - The Chinese government is stirring trade tensions with Washington with a plan to require foreign computer security technology to be submitted for government approval, in a move that might require suppliers to disclose business secrets.
AP - It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford’s heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago.
AP - The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night.
AP - Economic meltdown and financial crisis are not phrases you want to hear as you ponder your holiday shopping. But it is possible to find tech-related gifts on a recession-minded budget, be they handy, entertaining or irreverent.
AP - In broadcasting the world’s first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an “up close, personal, visceral” experience that could open a new revenue stream for the league.
AP - Fidelity Investments is joining the rush to satisfy investors’ growing appetite for news about financial market turmoil.
AP - What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they’re coming from brain scientists.
Reuters - Chrysler LLC on Tuesday asked the U.S. government for an emergency $7-billion bridge loan by the end of the year, saying it needs the funds to survive a brutal downturn in sales that has depleted its cash reserves.
Reuters - A top lawmaker predicted Washington would approve a bailout for U.S. automakers after they submitted survival plans, and General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC said they needed an immediate infusion of cash to avoid failures.
AP - Retailers who saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed stepped up online promotions on the day known as “Cyber Monday” to try to get consumers tired of the crowds at stores to keep shopping.
AP - Online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers during the crucial Thanksgiving weekend and “Cyber Monday” but even so, online sales are expected to be fairly flat after years of strong growth.
AP - Consumer electronics have long been among the most popular holiday gifts, with fierce competition among shoppers for day-after-Thanksgiving deals on flat-screen TVs and laptop computers.
Reuters - ArcelorMittal , the world’s largest steelmaker, unveiled plans on Thursday to slash up to 9,000 more jobs, saving $1 billion a year in response to a deepening global economic downturn.
AP - Since its launch in March, video-streaming site Hulu has become a popular place to catch TV shows, video clips and movies for free on the Web.
Reuters - BCE Inc’s C$34.8 billion ($28.3 billion) leveraged buyout stood on the brink of collapse on Wednesday after accountants ruled that the company that would emerge from the deal would fail a solvency test because of its huge debt load.
Reuters - Sales of newly built single-family homes dropped sharply in October and were running at levels last seen 17-1/2 years ago, according to a Commerce Department report on Wednesday that offered a fresh measure of the U.S. housing sector’s distress..
Reuters - Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Vikram Pandit on Tuesday blamed prior management for diving too deeply into real estate, causing losses that led to this week’s massive government bailout of the second-largest U.S. bank by assets.
AP - Even in troubled times, Hewlett-Packard Co. has managed to stack up some impressive gains.
Reuters - The Federal Reserve, in another massive life-support intervention for the U.S. financial system, on Tuesday announced a $600 billion program to buy mortgage-related debt and securities and a $200 billion facility to support consumer debt securities.
Reuters - Prices of single-family homes in September plunged a record 17.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices issued on Tuesday.
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. edged past Wall Street’s forecast for the latest quarter, showing some resilience in troubled times, as strong laptop sales helped offset falling printer orders and weakness in some server lines.
