You may remember Susan Boyle as the artist that has become a viral web hit through her participation on the show Britain’s Got Talent. The domain name was bought around January 2002 and by an American artist named Susan K. Boyle, not the same famous Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. The domain name is being sold on Sedo for $25,000
The traffic on SusanBoyle.com has been surging since she became a hit, but the visitors were disappointed to not really find much on that domain name about the new singing sensation. American artist Susan K. Boyle’s personal website has been moved to sboyleart.com from SusanBoyle.com. She decided to sell SusanBoyle.com because she thinks someone will be able to make better use of it.
The New York Times needed an infusion of cash recently as their stock price has not been doing so great. Harbinger Capital, a company that owns about 19% of NYT stock wanted to unload it to Hollywood exec David Geffen and Google.
Last winter the New York Times decided to get more money out of Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim instead of David Geffen, $250 million to be exact. They did this for a reason. Geffen even offered the same terms for the loan.
The New York Times Chairman told Geffen that the company would rather work with Slim because he already owns a major amount of shares in the company and that “he was reportedly also worried about Geffen’s ambition to take over the company.” Geffen made an offer to completely buy out The New York Times this past September.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and his family are the major shareholders in The New York Times. His family has controlled the newspaper since 1896 and the company was founded in 1851. Their family said that they were not interested in selling the company outright, but this is the same sentiments that the Bancroft family had with The Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones. Both Dow and The WSJ are now owned by News Corp.
DJ Hero is going to be one of the most exciting games to play when it launches. Jay-Z and Eminem have agreed to have their beats and names used in the game and the controller pictured below feels like a real turntable (pictured below). Now there is an official trailer for the game and it is embedded above. I need to get myself this game when it comes out.
BabySafeTravel.com was created out of a negative experience by the mother of an 8 week old baby. The founder and her baby went on the husband’s business trips and stayed at a hotel chain. The hotel chain gave the baby a foul smelling bed to sleep in and gave an even worse play-yard. The hotel even gave the baby a king-sized sheet for the bed which could have been a strangulation hazard.
BabySafeTravel.com has a rating system for hotels based on how equipped they are for baby travel. On the homepage there is a way to book a hotel, flight, or car rental. The search options for the hotels, flights, and cars can be filtered further. For example, hotels can be filtered by Popularity, Price, Star Rating, and Hotel Name. It doesn’t matter if you want to search for options in the U.S., Australia, Europe, Canada, or any other country. BabySafeTravel works with all destinations.
BabySafeTravel.com even sells products that are generally needed for travelling with a baby. Their online store is called the Baby Boutique and there are products such as Travel Potty, an Eddie Bauer Infant Travel Bed, an Eddie Bauer Travel Stroller Blanket, The Urban Advantage Stroller in Cayenne, etc. A lot of the products in their store are reasonably priced too.
Along with travel search options and a boutique, BabySafeTravel.com also has baby travel tips and a blog where different parents write about their experiences. The experiences mostly revolve around travelling with a baby. BabySafeTravel.com is an overall great resource for parents and I highly recommend checking it out if you have a baby and love to travel.
phoneArena has scored a pre-release handset of the Samsung Galaxy I7500. The I7500 is powered by Google Android OS 1.5 Cupcake and has a 3.2″ AMOLED touchscreen. The camera is 5 megapixels, but there is very few features in terms of being able to tweak the images.
In phoneArena’s video review they said that the I7500 looks just like the Magic and it may be hard to differentiate if there wasn’t a new operating system and a higher megapixel camera.
As many of you are aware, Sirius-XM almost had to file for bankruptcy but was given a lifeline from Liberty Media. Shortly after resolving the financial issue, the company announced that they were going to make an iPhone application. Now we have found out additional information about their upcoming application.
The application will be for free, but will require a subscription to work. Current subscribers will have to pay $3/month for the application and non-subscribers have to pay $13 per month. This is quite hefty considering the other radio stations that are available for free (Pandora/Last.fm/Clear Channel/Shoutcast).
For those of you out there that are Sirius-XM satellite subscribers, do you think you’d shell out $3 per month for it?
Jeff Dossett, the SVP of North American Audience at Yahoo! has stepped down. Dossett oversaw Yahoo!’s media properties News, Sports, and Finance. Dossett joined the company from MSN and replaced Scott Moore. Moore ended up taking a job Microsoft after being replaced.
Before Dossett left, he had reorganized Yahoo!’s media group. Although it is not yet known what Dossett plans to do now, rumor has it that he will be joining a startup. While Yahoo! searches for a replacement, Jimmy Pitaro and Tim Mayer will take on Dossett’s role.
Westpac Bank in New Zealand had accidentally deposited $8 million into the bank account of a service station owner Leo Gao and his girlfriend Cara Young. After discovering the money, they quickly withdrew the money and fled to somewhere in Asia.
The way it was discovered that the couple was in Asia was because Young’s sister Aroha Hurring joined them and posted details about their location in a Facebook status message. The message stated that she was enjoying the heat and the local Asian beer.
Young’s mother Sue Hurring said “Well you’ve got to have a laugh. It is bizarre.” Hurring then blamed her daughter’s boyfriend for the incident. “Well, if you really want to know I’d like to wring his blinging neck for getting the whole… I don’t know what to say. Never mind Leo, he can stay there. Just come home now please [Cara]. It’s going to be OK.”
Getting them to come home through extradition will not be possible because the New Zealand and China don’t have any sort of treaty agreement.
Cara and Leo both applied for a $10,000 loan and a Westpac employee accidentally inserted a few extra zeroes instantly giving the couple access to 10 million New Zealand dollars. The employee that made the slip is supposedly so distraught about what happened that he or she needed to see counseling.
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