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...customers as part of their own personal folksonomy and then shared with the rest of the online world. No one is yet prepared to crown tagging as a successful business in itself. More likely, tagging will boost online advertising, and search in particular, to a dominant position in consumer retail and commerce. And social networking and the culture of tagging is not without its critics. Eddie Cheng, president of British online yellow pages directory Yell.com, argues that it's much easier to rate a restaurant, say, than a lawyer: "The danger is that 60% of people who record reviews have...
...Furby,'" says Breslow, whose team produced the prototype three months later. iZ's blinking beak adds $1 in costs, but Shiffman insisted on keeping it. He incorporated a jack so that users can hook up their iPod to play their own songs pumped up with riffs from iZ. Suggested retail price...
...kids-entertainment company partnered with Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts to open the first Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn, a $110 million theme resort in Orlando, Fla. Drawing on the success of its wildly popular series like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants, which racked up $1.5 billion in retail sales alone last year, Nickelodeon is positioning itself at the center of the technology-driven environment its audience inhabits. TurboNick, launched several weeks ago on a broadband video platform on Nick.com lets kids watch full-length episodes of their favorite Nick shows online, sometimes even before they air on cable...
TIME How big do you want to be? K.K. We just laid out a new five-year plan. We see the opportunity for double-digit growth in our four key businesses: retail banking, home lending, multifamily lending and nonprime residential lending...
...from the typically cocksure Mayor Richard M. Daley, the savvy Chicago ambassador courting CEOs and world-class architects, or the hard-knuckle retail politician pressing the flesh in his family's blue-collar neighborhoods. A week after two of Daley's top officials were charged with mail fraud in a widening federal corruption probe, the Cook County Republican Party had gone so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the conviction of the mayor himself, and suddenly he seemed a bit like a wounded animal, ready to lash out or, alternatively...