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...PICTURES AND VIDEO Pixsy This clever engine extracts images and videos from the RSS feeds of a variety of content providers, from YouTube to the BBC. Click on a source - say, The New York Times - from the "Browse Recently Added" box on the lower right-hand side of the home page, and you'll get a fresh batch of thumbnails, which serve as direct links to the material. Or browse by category to see the latest content to come online. Currently stocking some 10 million items in its searchable bank, Pixsy intends to have 1 billion items in store...
...Rotten Tomatoes Gathers movie reviews from far and wide, and reports box office and other stats; flicks receive a critical average on the 100-point "tomatometer." Movies.com also gets a nod for streaming episodes of "Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony," an Ebert & Roeper spoof starring those lovable muppet-curmudgeons...
...city showdown with Chicago?s ?big box ordinance,? Target announced today that it was scrapping plans to build a store on the city?s North Side. Big-box ordinances, a relative of living-wage laws, require large retailers like Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart to pay a minimum wage closer to $10 an hour versus the Federal minimum of $5.15 and in some cases offer health coverage. The ordinances have become popular in big cities, a relatively unexploited market so far for big-box retailers. But are the ordinances ultimately hurting the very city residents they allege to protect...
...box stores claim that the laws drive up the costs of doing business in the city, and ultimately deprive residents of services, low prices and jobs. There also is the race factor. In Chicago, like in many big cities, the most overlooked neighborhoods are often predominantly black. Wal-Mart has sought to score points and profits in the black community, but on its own terms - the company made a hard sell to black neighborhoods in Chicago and Los Angeles, where residents are desperate for big stores. Earlier this year, the company announced its ?Jobs and Opportunity Zone Initiative,? a campaign...
...Chicago, big-box retailers have been successful on a site-by-site basis. But the City Council vote - a 35-14 drubbing - takes the issue citywide. Furthermore, retailers like Target and Wal-Mart have to answer to their shareholders, who demand growth. ?The cities are really the last frontier for big-box retailers,? says Arindrajit Dube, a research economist at the University of California, Berkley. ?The only place they are growing is global, but the urban market is just too lucrative for them to ignore...