Real Estate Financing and Investing for iPhone downloads for free

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The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Intersog's Learning To-Go: Real Estate Financing and Investing for iPhone / iPod touch for free. That's a $30 drop and the best deal we've seen for this app, which offers a complete professional-level business course on real estate financing and investing. Read more

Posted on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SCOTTEVEST 9th Anniversary Sale: 40% off select men's apparel

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SCOTTEVEST takes 40% off select men's apparel during its 9th Anniversary Sale via coupon code "9SALE40". That's the best percent-off discount we've seen from SCOTTEVEST, which sells apparel with concealed storage pockets for MP3 players, money, wallets, and more. Shipping is a flat-rate $5. Deal ends February 26 at 9 pm ET.

For a best bet, search for "Evolution" and select the first result to find the SCOTTEVEST Men's Evolution Travel Jacket in Marine Blue (pictured) or Black for $90 after the coupon above. With $5 for shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $74. This water-resistant jacket features 25 pockets and is available in sizes S to XXL, although some color/size combinations are sold out.

Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

FCC Investigates Apple Nixing Google Voice

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Another page has been written in the epic saga of Google Voice and its iPhone troubles. Now the FCC is investigating Apple for cutting the app, as well as several 3rd party Voice apps, from its online store. The Federal Communications Commission sent letters to Apple, AT&T, and Google looking for information on the whole conflict.

Specifically the FCC wanted to know exactly why Apple rejected the app and removed the related applications. They also wanted to know what, if any role, AT&T had on the decision. Apple, whose App Store policies have been wondered at but never formally questioned, was asked to give an accounting of exactly what the approval process involves. The FCC asked for the percentage of rejected apps, and the major reasons that an app gets nixed.

Posted on Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:05:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

FaceBook gets $200 Million Investment at $10 billion Valuation

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Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies, has made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96% equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. The $10 billion does not refer to common stock though. The valuation of Facebook common stock is still unkown.

Digital Sky Technologies has indicated that it is planning to offer to purchase at least $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing common stockholders that would facilitate liquidity for current and former employees’ vested shares in the company. The details of the plan are expected to be announced to eligible participants during the summer. Read more

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2009 12:33:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tesla Motors gets new Investor with German Daimler

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The coolest electric car maker Tesla Motors gets a new investor with German car maker Daimler. Daimler takes 10% of Tesla Motors.
Daimler paid a double digit million dollar sum for the 10% in Tesla.
The companies plan to work together on the Smart electric car and future electric cars. Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 May 2009 07:54:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Forbes Launches Investing App for iPhone

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Forbes has announced a new iPhone application called the intelligent Investing application that is now available on the Apple App Store; the app works with the iPhone and iPod touch and is sponsored by the Zurich Financial Services Group.

The application provides analysis and insight about the current economy and business climate and features a series of video interviews with Steve Forbes called intelligent investing with Steve Forbes. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

FTC Investigates Apple and Google.

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The Federal Trade Commission announced today that they are currently looking at the boards of both Apple and Google to determine whether or not an anti-trust violation exists. This isn't particularly unexpected; Apple and Google share two directors, and a history of working together for mutual profit.

Both media giants most recently allied to bring integrated Youtube to Snow Leopard, Apple's new OS X. This most recent collaboration may have been what attracted the FTC's attention in the first place. I highly doubt anything too ground-breaking will come of this news, however. Apple and Google both seem to get along about as well as corporations can, but they also compete on several platforms. In the realm of mobile phones, search engines, and Internet browsers both titans are still locked in conflict.

Posted on Tue, 5 May 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Warren Buffett invests in Chinese Electric Car Maker BYD

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Ueber Investor Warren Buffett goes green by investing in Chinese BYD, a dynamic company making products from cell phone batteries to electric cars.
BYD is set to introduce two full electric cars later this year with the BYD E3 and BYD E6 in China.
BYD is already selling a plug-in hybrid dubbed F3DM. Read more

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SEC to Investigate Apple Over Jobs' Health

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I don’t think that there is another technology firm who is more affected by the health and appearance of its CEO than Apple. Apple sent shockwaves through the technology and investment community when it announced that Jobs was stepping down as CEO of the company temporarily due to health reasons.

Previously Apple had maintained that Jobs' health was not an issue and that he was with the technology firm for the long haul. Now the SECD is investigating whether or not Apple did anything illegal when it denied Jobs was ill, only to recant and say he was ill later. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:49:50 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Palm gets $100 Million Investment

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Palm is not dead yet and Elevation Partners bet $100 million on a successful future of the PDA pioneer. As reported Palm teased us with Palm New-ness to debut at CES 2009, which is most likely a new smartphone running Nova, the next generation Palm OS.
Elevation Partners is already an investor in Palm. Under a definitive agreement reached today, Elevation will increase its investment in Palm by acquiring newly issued Series C preferred stock that is convertible into Palm common stock at a price of $3.25 per share, a 31% premium to the closing price of Palm common stock on Dec. 19, 2008. The Series C preferred stock carries a 0% dividend rate. Elevation will also receive warrants to acquire 7 million shares of Palm common stock at the same price. Prior to March 31, 2009, Palm may elect to cause Elevation to sell up to $49 million of this new investment to other investors on the same or better terms than on which Elevation invested. Read more

Posted on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:22:18 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Livestrong.com Announces Calorie Tracking iPhone App

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Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation has announced the launch of its first iPhone App called Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker. The tracker works with the iPhone and the iPod touch and is available now from the App Store.

The application allows users to track their calorie intake and monitor their weight to help achieve better fitness and track exercise. The tracker has a search function that allows users to track what they eat during the day and tallies their caloric intake automatically. The database has 450,000 food items and 2,000 fitness activities. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Google 'invests' in Zip Lines

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We reported earlier that Google is looking into investing in green energy. Well apparently Google employees on their project day built a green transport system: a Zip Line.
Some Googlers built a Zip Line to be able to go quickly to lunch as the new building in Mountain View is beyond the Permanente Creek separating it from the main campus where the lobsters are served. Read more

Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:16:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ScotteVest Steve Wozniak Webisodes will not go Viral

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ScotteVest coaxed Steve Wozniak into starring in supposed to be funny spoof webisodes - cleverly named WOZisodes.
The problem is that the videos are not funny at all. Bill Gates' spoof videos from CES are millions of times better than what WOZ got himself into here. The Apple co-founder is on the Board of Advisors of ScotteVest, which explains the connection, but not the WHY? Read more

Posted on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:57:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

3rd Space Vest Gets New Drivers

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TN Games, the gang behind the interesting 3rd Space gaming vest have announced new drivers for the vest that add compatibility for a slew of the coolest PC games on the planet. The new driver update is free to owners of the vest.

Games now supported on the 3rd space vest include Bioshock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4, and more. The total amount of games now supported by the 3rd Space vest is 20. I used the 3rd Space vest at CES 2008 and it was cool. Read more

Posted on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NBC Universal and other Investors Buy The Weather Channel

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A group of investors including NBC Universal, Bain Capital, and The Blackstone Group announced today that an agreement has been signed to buy The Weather Channel from landmark Communications. The investors say that The Weather Channel will be operated as a separate entity.

The Weather Channel will be based in Atlanta and will have management provided by NBC Universal. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Considering that The Weather Channel Networks are the third most distributed cable network and is seen in 97% of cable TV homes, the price wasn’t cheap. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:35:28 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Nokia tries to make good on closed German Factory with over $32m Investment

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Nokia, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the City of Bochum jointly unveiled a plan today to stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighboring cities.

Nokia invests 20m Euro (~$32m) into the Growth for Bochum program plus the net proceeds from the sale of Nokia's production facility and property in Bochum.
The state of NRW will also contribute a co-investment in the amount of 20 million Euros ($32m). Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:38:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Google invests $500m in the Clearwire WiMax Network Company

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Google is one of the investors in the newly formed Clearwire WiMAX business with Sprint. Google invested 500 million of the 3.2 billion that the new Clearwire company is getting injected.

Google will provide search and applications to the network's users, and will work with Clearwire to offer additional services and applications. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 13:01:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blu-ray under Investigation by ITC on Laser Diode Patent Infringement

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The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to hear a case filed by Columbia University Professor Emeritus Gertrude Neumark Rothschild that seeks to block the importation of a wide array of consumer electronics products manufactured by 30 companies that infringe her patent for LEDs and laser diodes.

Among the products affected by this investigation are Sony Blu-ray players. Read more

Posted on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:41:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Japan launched Investigation into exploding Apple iPod nano

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Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple iPod players after one reportedly shot out sparks while recharging.

A Japanese official at the trade and economy ministry, which oversees product problems, said a defect is suspected in the lithium-ion battery in the iPod nano with the model number MA099J/A. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:56:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Verizon Wireless Says Stop Harvesting Wireless Numbers

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Verizon Wireless has called on Intelius to stop harvesting wireless numbers online using data mining techniques. Verizon says that harvesting wireless numbers that aren’t otherwise listed from social networking sites and other places is a violation of the number owner’s right to privacy.

"Stop it. This is a violation of Americans' privacy. People expect their cell phone numbers to remain private," said Steve Zipperstein, vice president and general counsel of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless says it will take whatever steps are necessary to stop the number harvesting including litigation to protect its customers. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:21:14 CST | by Shane McGlaun

German Samwer Brothers invest in Facebook

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The three Samwer brothers are well known in internet entrepreneurs in Germany. Now they make headlines with a high profile investment in social networking king-pin Facebook.

The Samwer brothers founded successfully in the past the Alando auction platform they sold to eBay and the Jamba ringtone company which they sold to Verisign. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:47:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr