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Current News for July 02, 2008

Achieving growth in Online travel bookings requires more than Cheap Fares.

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:08:53 PDT
Research and Markets announces the addition of the new report entitled “Off-line Customer Acquisition: Enticing Off-line Travel Bookers by Improving Navigation and Service Before Personalization ” to its offerings. Online travel companies are looking beyond Web fares and frequent flier miles to lure the 76 percent of leisure travel that is booked off-line in 2003 to the online channel. This report esamines the factors that encourage consumers to book off-line and whether travel web sites sho

Baron Davis going to LA Clippers

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:02:34 PDT
www.GldnSt8Warrior.com reports on latest news Baron Davis verbally agrees to contract moving him to LA.

Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:42:21 PDT
Auto-correct can be a very helpful feature of any word-processing program. But when conservatives use it, they run the risk of embarrassing themselves. The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website, for example, takes its AP articles and replaces the word “gay” with the word “homosexual. Hilarity ensues...

Readings: Trading algorithms, Rupee plunge, Doom & gloom

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:37:29 PDT
New Scientist: ‘Gordon Gekko’ trading bot profits from mood swings Vytelingum has developed a new trading program that can adjust how aggressively it trades to match market conditions . . . The new agent responds to market changes in two ways. Firstly, it can change its aggressiveness by monitoring other traders’ behaviour. If other traders are being aggressive – for example, by attempting to undercut others – it raises its game to trade even more aggressively. If trading is less competitive

Viewer numbers drop substantially for cable news networks

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:50:51 PDT
Prof. Levinson: "People who support Obama don't watch Fox much."

Viewer numbers drop substantially for cable news networks (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:30:12 PDT
Maybe there wasn't enough post primary election drama to keep viewers hooked. Prime-time ratings for the second quarter showed viewers dropped off significantly from all cable news networks — Atlanta's CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN's Headline News — from the first three months of the year. No. 1 overall news network Fox captured 1.6 million prime-time viewers during the second ...

More bad news for borrowers - Banks increase rates for loans

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:54:58 PDT
Not good for loan seekers....


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Hot trends for July 01, 2008

Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:41:45 PDT
How websites like CarePages.com can help people communicate during a health challenge and find others in similar situations.

All Headline News (AHN) Opens New York and Washington D.C. News Bureaus

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:01 PST
West Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) November 20, 2006 -- As part of a planned expansion program, All Headline News (AHN) has announced that it is opening two offices and news bureaus to expand news coverage...

Trend: Crowdsourcing für Reality-TV

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:31:07 PDT
Der Urvater der Reality-TV-Konzepte , John de Mol, sucht, ganz im Sinne des Crowdsourcing, die nächste große Idee in der Masse.

AT&T Releases iPhone 3G Pricing Plans. Get Ready to Pay!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:43:49 PDT
Stores open at 8am July 11th. But is it really worth it after reading all the new fees you will pay for service. A descent plan is going to run you $130 a month. AT&T today announced iPhone 3G pricing for new and existing AT&T customers, several attractive voice and data plans, and tips on how to be “iReady” when iPhone 3G goes on sale at AT&T retail stores at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, July 11. “We can’t wait to offer iPhone 3G to our customers, and we want to make sure the b

20 Pride marchers hurt in Czech attacks

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:53:31 PDT
Nick Clegg calls on Heinz to reinstate same-sex kiss advert The leader of the Liberal Democrats has become the first party leader to comment on the decision of food manufacturer Heinz to withdraw an advert from TV because it depicted two men kissing. You will go to hell, preacher tells "gay" CNN presenter Is Anderson Cooper going to hell? Rev. Al Sharpton seems to think so, and while appearing on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss Rev. James Dobson. opinionuk-newsworld-newspolitics

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Reports on Difficult Operating Trends - PR Newswire (press release)


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Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Reports on Difficult Operating Trends
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 6 hours ago
In addition, the balance of the year looks less robust than we had forecasted, given overall economic trends," said Gary L. Paxton, President and Chief ...
Dollar Thrifty Sees Softness Wall Street Journal
Dollar Thrifty expects earnings to miss goal Reuters
Dollar Thrifty drops 20% on news it will not meet 2008 earnings ... SmallCapInvestor
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