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Is FiLife Running On Borrowed Time?
Paid Content &bull Mar 20, 2010
Less than two months after talking up the turnaround at Dow Jones-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) personal finance JV FiLife, paidContent has learned the site's continued existence is no certainty. It survived the multiple trimmings as Barry Diller cut back on IAC's… Full Story »
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FCC May Open Public-Safety Spectrum Block For Commercial Purposes
Paid Content &bull Mar 19, 2010
The FCC is working on a plan that would sell a chunk of spectrum in the first half of 2011 that failed to be sold in 2008 because of the strict conditions of use. An auction would help T-Mobile USA,… Full Story »
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March Madness: CBSSports.com Says It Served 3.4 Million Live Hours On Day One
Paid Content &bull Mar 19, 2010
Initial stats are in for NCAA March Madness on Demand and it looks like CBSSports.com will be able to declare victory again (unlike fans of Georgetown or Vanderbilt). Unlike NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and the Olympics, CBS (NYSE: CBS) goes… Full Story »
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Compensation up 46.9% for Ameriprise's Cracchiolo
Biz Journals &bull Mar 19, 2010
Ameriprise Financial Inc. pumped up top executive James Cracchiolo's compensation by 46.9 percent in 2009, a year in which the Minneapolis-based financial-services firm swung to a profit and engaged in a $1 billion acquisition. Option awards were $9.1 million, down… Full Story »
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BBVA Compass names new Denver president
Biz Journals &bull Mar 19, 2010
Birmingham, Ala.-based BBVA Compass is a subsidiary of Compass Bancshares Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of BBVA (NYSE: BBVA), a Spanish financial services company. The bank has 36 locations in Colorado. Full Story »
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PNC Bank investigating debit card security breach
Biz Journals &bull Mar 19, 2010
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is investigating a possible security breach involving some debit cards issued by the former National City Corp., which it acquired in December 2008. While the possible breach does not involve any Dayton-area cards, a PNC… Full Story »
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PNC probing Cincinnati-area debit card breach
Biz Journals &bull Mar 19, 2010
PNC Financial Services Group is investigating a possible security breach involving some debit cards issued by the former National City Corp., which it acquired in December 2008. A PNC spokesman said in an e-mailed statement that the breach involves a… Full Story »
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iVillage Plans Larger Health And Wellness Rollout
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
Since updating its look last fall, iVillage has been tinkering at the edges, adding three new channels around celebrities, food and even astrology. Now, it's working to expand its health and wellness content amid a wave of competition from other… Full Story »
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T-Mobile USA Confirms Partnership Talks WIth Clearwire
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
T-Mobile USA is indeed looking for a U.S. partner to help finance a high-speed data network. T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson said Thursday that his company-which has admitted it is losing business because many of its customers cannot even get… Full Story »
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MobiTV Now Letting People Store TV Offline On Their Phone To Watch Whenever They Want
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
It was imperative for us, as multi-screen distribution becomes core to our business, to create a solution that allows for consumption of content on multiple screens and platforms, whether someone is on a plane or sitting in front of their… Full Story »
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Yahoo Expands Its Search Distribution Partnership With Telefonica To Spain
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its search deal with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this month-but it is still picking up search partners-at least in Europe. The company is replacing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) as the exclusive search engine on… Full Story »
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Ben Horowitz: Screw This Lean Startup Stuff, Sometimes You Have To Spend Big To Win Big (Silicon Alley Insider)
Yahoo Finance &bull Mar 18, 2010
In a blog post at AllThingsD, Ben Horowitz makes the case for more of those types of "fat startups"-- startups that need to raise and then spend a lot of money to win a big market. September 1999 and grew… Full Story »
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Reuters Begins Selling New Customized Financial Data, Graphics Service To Newspapers
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to sell a new product designed to enhance understaffed business sections. The news wire plans to unveil… Full Story »
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Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix To Provide Content To NYT
Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010
The NYTCo's local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix. In a sense, the deal with Fwix can buttress the NYTimes.com's New York metro area blogs program, The Local, which it began last year. The deal… Full Story »
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U.S. Bank to boost giving in Chicago, continue Park National initiatives
Biz Journals &bull Mar 17, 2010
Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) acquired the deposits and assets of Park National and eight other banks after the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized their holding company, FBOP Corp. The support of U.S. Bank further strengthens our mission by… Full Story »
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Comerica pays back $2.5B to Troubled Asset Relief Program
Biz Journals &bull Mar 17, 2010
News of the company paying back TARP funds arrives several days after Dallas-based Comerica said it planned to sell $800 million in common stock to help pay back funds borrowed under TARP. In exchange for its investment during the $700… Full Story »
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Video: Tim Armstrong On AOL's Big Push Into Local
Paid Content &bull Mar 17, 2010
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong went on CNBC today to discuss AOL's local news. Aside from announcing that the company's network of hyperlocal sites would move into additional geographies, including California, Armstrong said AOL would relaunch City's Best, a… Full Story »
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AOL Sets Up Venture Fund To Back Local Startups
Paid Content &bull Mar 17, 2010
The company cites the "increasing number of startups" in the local space as driving the creation of the new fund, which will operate as part of AOL Ventures. Likely not a coincidence: AOL Ventures head Jon Brod previously led Patch,… Full Story »
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Yahoo Buys Social Sports Startup Citizen Sports
Paid Content &bull Mar 17, 2010
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hinted for several months that it would be making more acquisitions and it's finallly made one-buying up social sports startup Citizen Sports, which it says will compliment Yahoo Sports, the top sports site in the U.S.… Full Story »
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Synovus names CEO CBT of East Alabama
Biz Journals &bull Mar 17, 2010
Burford began his career with Columbus, Ga.-based Synovus (NYSE: SNV) in 1977 as a part-time teller with Columbus Bank and Trust Co., and worked in branch banking and commercial banking until 1983. Burford served in various leadership positions, including division… Full Story »
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