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Get Ready for iTunes Taxes
Digital content makes a lot money—over $130 billion in sales a year—but most of that actually isn't taxed. Yet! Realizing they're leaving vast streams of green untapped, states are getting wise—nine this year have considered digital download taxes, and five of those passed them, for a total of 17 states that tax digital purchases. And don't worry, they're totally coming to a state near you, it's only a matter of time. More »
piggybanks
Things'd have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or "handsome men banks" from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you're rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I'm not clear exactly how pornographic it would be... Anyhow, if you're lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around $46 in September. [Reuters]
All You Need is Love from Talking, Romantic "Handsome Men" Piggy Bank
Things'd have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or "handsome men banks" from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you're rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I'm not clear exactly how pornographic it would be... Anyhow, if you're lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around $46 in September. [Reuters]
iphone
How I Sold My iPhone in 24 Hours For More Than I Paid
With the possible announcement of the 3G iPhone only a week away, many current iPhone owners are itching to upgrade, which takes money. Other people, finally bitten by the iPhone bug, are eager to buy one, only they are harder to find in stores. This creates a nice, natural supply-and-demand formula that we managed to exploit not once but twice on eBay. Not only did I sell my iPhone in 24 hours, but I sold it for more than I paid. More »
10:00 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Christopher Mascari
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rim
RIM Sees Apple $100M Fund for Programmers and Raises $50 Million More
Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry Bold comes the news that the company behind it is to start up its own venture capital firm. And if it's a way of besting Apple's iFund, then the Canadians win, by fifty million buckeroonies. The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a bunk up between RIM and Thomson Reuters, and has earmarked $150 million for mobile applications and services for mobile platforms including BlackBerry. Full press release after the jump. More »
5:30 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By AddyDugdale
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Latest by mricyfire: @Sqube: I hate seeing this but Henry Ford DID NOT INVENT THE CAR... Benz and Diamler and some other European companies more »
microsoft
Windows Sales Way Down, Microsoft Makes Less Money (Vs. Last Year)
Here are the meaty bits in the cold platter of numbers that is Microsoft's quarterly earnings report. Windows sales are way down (the client division, which makes Windows, saw sales drop by 24 percent vs. last year). Office is doing alright, but they're losing their ass on online services. The entertainment division (Zune and Xbox) is balling, with revenue up 68 percent, making Xbox and Zune profitable for almost a year now. But bottom line, Microsoft's income was down 11 percent from last year. [Microsoft, WSJ via Valleywag]
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Apple Quarterly Results: Mac Sales Way Up, iPods Pretty Flat
No surprise, this quarter was Apple's best March quarter ever. Here are the bits that matter—2.29 million Macs shipped, 51 percent more than same time last year, so Mac sales are booming. iPod sales are actually pretty flat from last year, up a meager one percent—are we at the saturation point? And 1.7 million iPhones, obviously down from a couple a months ago, when it was all Christmas boom, but not bad considering we're at the point where people are going to start waiting for the 3G iPhone. Read the whole thing below, but they still won't comment on their big purchase from last night. We'll be in on the call for more details in about 20 minutes, updating it live. More »
4:42 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By matt buchanan
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Latest by my favorite car is a motorcycle: What's interesting is that every other company's reporting includes long explanations about how "low consumer sentiment and a general slowdown more »
pizza
Man Sells Pizza.com Domain Name for Serious Dough
A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for a massive $3 million, and decided he wanted a slice of the pie. More »
showers
Emirates Air In-Flight Showers Cost $18,000 (Plus Enviro Guilt?)
Starting October 1, if you're flying first class from Dubai to New York on an Emirates Air A380, you'll have the option of grabbing a hot shower midflight. It'll cost you $18,000, but some showers are worth it, am I right? "No!" say those party poopers in the environmental lobby. More »
riches
IBM Says Storm Worm Creators Making Millions, Daily
The cunning masterminds behind the Storm worm are apparently rolling in great wealth. The boffins at IBM estimate the worm is netting just under $2 million per day for its creators. The Storm worm's financial success comes from the fact that it has successfully created a massive collection of autonomously running computers, a.k.a. a botnet, which can be used to launch profitable spam attacks. More »
software
Coming Soon: Depositing Checks at Home by Scanner
Saul Hansel, one of my favorite NYTimes reporters, writes about Fiserv's technology that'll let normal people deposit paper checks to their bank accounts by merely scanning them at home. More »
toy fair 2008
Hulk Money Bank Smashes Savings Procrastination
HULK LIKES TO SAVE MONEY! MONEY IS GREEN! HULK IS GREEN! HULK LIKES GREEN! YOU KNOW KERMIT? GREAT FRIEND OF HULK! PUNY BANNER DOESN'T SAVE MONEY! HE SPENDS IT ALL ON NEW PANTS! LIKE JASON CHEN! HULK DOESN'T LIKE PUNY BANNER! HMMMM, HULK LIKES JASON CHEN THOUGH! EXCEPT WHEN HE WEARS BATMAN PYJAMAS! BUT HULK WILL GIVE HIM THIS HULK MONEY BANK ANYWAY! (Editor's Note: it is going to be released at Toy Fair 2008, as merchandising for the next Edward Norton's Hulk movie which, sadly, won't include Lou Ferrigno. — JD) WHO IS TALKING? WHO IS LOU FERRIGNO? WHO IS THE EDITOR? HULK HATES EDITOR! HE SPENDS ALL MONEY IN DRINKS AND GOING OUT! HULK SMASHES EDITOR! [Superhero Flix]
money, money
Earnings Report: Go Ahead, Call Microsoft "M$"
Apple wasn't the only one balling this quarter on the back of new computer sales. Microsoft's profits were up a huge 79 percent against last year to hit $6.48 billion (on record revenues of $16.37 billion), mostly thanks to people snapping up Vista-loaded computers (whether they want the OS or not). More »
money, money
Earnings Roundup: Nintendo, AT&T and Nokia Make Mad Bank
It's the end of the quarter, which means it's raining earnings reports—companies tell investors (and the world) just how much coin they're swimming in (or bleeding out). Today, Nintendo revealed that the Wii is printing money twice as fast as last year; AT&T pulled in almost 3 million new subscribers; Nokia now commands 40 percent of the handset; and Netflix is doing pretty well, too. Big numbers are this-a-ways. More »
money, money
Motorola Stock Plummets On Huge 4Q Loss
When your company earnings nose dive 84% in the fourth quarter and you issue a warning that the recovery will take longer than expected, It is not all that surprising that the reaction on Wall Street will be swift and brutal. More »
so much money
Apple First Quarter 2008 Earnings: Best. Quarter. Ever. (But Still Not Good Enough)
Holy crap, Apple made a lot of money this quarter: $9.6 billion in revenues for $1.58 billion in profits. Or, in English, the most bank ever in Apple history. But it wasn't enough to appease Wall Street's insatiable hunger for green, 'cause the stock is bombing out in after-hours trading.) Contributing to that massive pile of loot were 2.3 million Macs, 22.1 million iPods and 2.3 million iPhones—just in the last three months, all of which broke past records. We're in the conference call that's supposed to start um, now, so we'll be updating as it rolls with anything juicy. More »
5:02 PM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By matt buchanan
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Latest by robjennings: @SFKevin: Many corporations and also not-for-profits and governments have fiscal years that do not align with the calendar year for more »
ces 2008
Is CES Leaving Las Vegas?
MSNBC reports that rising costs of food and accommodations during CES week could drive the show out of Las Vegas when their contract ends in 2011. [MSNBC]
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