Disney to Acquire Marvel
The announcement earlier today is that Disney [DIS] is prepping to acquire Marvel Entertainment [MVL], the main competitor to DC Comics and its parent in the comics production industry [TWX].
This will be quite interesting…
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Steve
YouTube to Sell Ads on User-Generated Videos
You knew it was going to happen eventually… YouTube [GOOG] would have to follow in the footsteps of other Google properties in using some sort of ad-based revenue model.
It’s coming now: for user-generated/uploaded content, YouTube/Google will somehow ask users whether they would like to allow ads to be applied to their videos, and if yes, then those users would get a bit of the ad revenue.
Steve
For those “in the know”, the Inner.DevPal.Net site has been up and running for several days at this point.
E-mail me your thoughts/comments/ideas about it. Thanks! 
Steve
Curious… is Nokia finally jumping onto the netbook/discount arena to stem the tide of defections toward other manufacturers, or to do something completely different?
And what about Maemo, now?
Steve
Attention Mac Folks: Snow Leopard is Coming
Yes, that’s right, folks:
As of right now, you can pre-order OS X 10.6, named “Snow Leopard”, from the online Apple [AAPL] Store, to ship on August 28, 2009.
Any takers? 
Steve
PS3 Slim = $299?
Not willing to concede the console wars to Microsoft [MSFT] yet, Sony [SNE] is stickin’ in the game with the revamped PS3 Slim format, with a price reduction and a firmed-up release date for North America.
- Expected release date: September 1, 2009.
- Expected new price: $299 USD.
- Expected internals: 120 GB HD, 45 nm Cell structure.
CNET even has an article about it.
Interesting, right?
Steve
Wow… is it true that FINALLY Verizon [VZ] will be sharing their repeaters in the Metro underground facilities with all other major cell carriers?
Steve
PlayStation 3 Finally in Slim Format
After all this time, Sony’s PS3 will finally be released in its slim format, similar in concept to the current run of PS2 slim formats.
Steve
Did anybody get at least one of the 52″ Samsung HDTV’s from the Best Buy [BBY] web site for $9.99 USD before they yanked the link?
It’s ironic that it is perhaps one of the few times where “Best Buy” actually lives up to its name. The question is now: Will Best Buy honor their agreement to savvy customers?
Steve
Several people have commented to me about wanting to know why certain people, especially corporate officers and other company officials as well as government folks, visit/use/manipulate Twitter frequently.
I’ve even had a several teenagers and a couple of early-20′ers ask me about Twitter. They’ve told me that they just don’t “get it”… quite a surprising statement (superficially) from these people… until I realized that these “kids” aren’t the technophiles that the mainstream media loves to report about– these are the young’uns that have been bypassed by several generations of current online technology that have arrived in the past few years.
However, I also think it’s surprising since there seem to be so many articles and books floating around about Twitter…
Steve 12:47 PM on September 1, 2009 Permalink |
Here is an article from yesterday about the announcement:
http://www.marketintelligencecenter.com/articles/940240