Monthly Archives: August 2011
AT&T: Unlimited Texting or 20 Cents Per Message, No Other Options
AT&T has confirmed that new customers will see different options when signing up for a texting plan: either you pay for unlimited, or you pay by the text. The new options are an unlimited texting plan for $20 a month, an unlimited family texting plan for $30 a month, or paying 20 cents for each text sent. Picture and video messages will cost 30 cents per message for those who forego the unlimited plan. CNET reports that the change takes place on August 21st.
Categories AT&T Inc.
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Starbucks Brings the Pumpkin Spice Latte Back with a Facebook Contest
It’s almost that time of year again, the magical season of the Pumpkin Spice Latte that brings fanatics to Starbucks in droves. To amp up the excitement, the coffee giant is using Facebook to host a social marketing contest. The challenge and its companion app will be revealed on the Starbucks Facebook Page on Monday, reports Mashable. The contest will pit cities against each other, and the winning city gets the Pumpkin Spice Latte a week before its official release date.
Categories Facebook, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Starbucks Corporation
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Kodak is Selling 1,100 Digital Imaging Patents
Kodak’s patent portfolio is worth five times the company itself, and Kodak is responding to the siren song of “five times the money” by shopping some of its patents around. The company has been doing a lot of licensing of its digital imaging patents for the past few years, but it appears it’s time to sell a few of them. Business Week reports that Kodak hired Lazard Ltd. to market 1,100 of their patents, about 10% of the portfolio.
Categories Eastman Kodak Company, Lazard Ltd.
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T-Mobile Partners with Family Dollar for Prepaid Mobile Sales
T-Mobile may no longer have a partnership with RadioShack, but that isn’t keeping them out of the game. The company is now teaming up with Family Dollar to sell the prepaid mobile LG GS170, which Engadget reports is a $30 phone and a $50-per-month plan. The discount chain will display T-Mobile products in endcap displays in almost 6,000 stores.
Categories Family Dollar, T-Mobile
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Kabbage Raises $17 Million
Kabbage, an online merchant lending startup, has raised $17 million in new funding. The investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, David Bonderman, Warren Stephens, the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Jim McKelvey and others. Kabbage lends money to online merchants using PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API. [TechCrunch]
Google: 11 Years Of Acquisitions [INFOGRAPHIC]
Woorkup.com has created this awesome infographic summarizing Google’s biggest acquisitions based on price, country, and years. Check it out below:
Categories Google, Infographics
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Detroit Police Department Only Responding To Verified Burglar Alarms From Now On
The bad boys of Detroit, the Police Department (not Isiah Thomas, Vinnie Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, etc.), was putting in a lot of man power and money behind answering false burglar alarms. They have decided not to put as many resources behind burglar alarm responses any more.
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Categories Detroit Police Department, Ralph Godbee
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Skype Launches Pay-Per-Minute Skype WiFi App
Skype just introduced a game-changer to the world of Wi-Fi: an iOS app that finds hotspots and lets users pay for them per-minute with Skype Credit. Instead of buying a block of time that might be more than you need, the app helps you pay for the time you use. TechCrunch reports that Skype WiFi supports more than a million hotspots around the world.
Categories Skype, Skype WiFi
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Amazon Enters the Publishing Business for Real with Tim Ferriss
Amazon is going to publish its first actual book: Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Chef. Gizmodo reports that Ferriss is the first writer to use Amazon rather than Amazon’s self-publishing platform, and will be putting out paper, e-book and audio versions of 4-Hour Chef with the sales giant. Book publishers are worried, and Amazon is poised to take over the market one Kindle marketing tactic at a time. Amazon’s press release quotes Ferriss as saying that choosing Amazon Publishing “was a question of what future of publishing I want to embrace.”
Categories 4-Hour Chef, Amazon, Amazon Publishing, Timothy Ferriss
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Do-Gooders Rejoice: GOOD Acquires Chris Hughes’s Jumo
Publisher GOOD has acquired Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’s social causes startup Jumo. Hughes told TechCrunch that the two will be combining to form an online platform for social causes. Jumo matches users with causes to help them “take meaningful action,” while GOOD is a media outlet for people who care about causes.
Categories Chris Hughes, GOOD, Jumo
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