Archive for the ‘money’ Category

Arby’s to Buy Wendy’s

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

for 2.94 billion in stock offer deal. The family is devastated that Wendy’s is being bought. If her father were alive to hear news of the buyout, “he would not be amused,”

some of the financial stuff

being bought at a small premium in a sagging economy

Akon Faked His Almost Everything

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

So it breaks my heart to say this but, Akon is a fraud. His car theft ring: FALSE. Time behind bars: FALSE. The guy lied to our faces and created a persona that has an unbelievable story to it.

Akon has only been convicted of one felony, for gun possession in New Jersey. He plead guilty and got 3 years probation.

Another arrest in 1998 in Atlanta, has been capitalized by Akon and became the big lie that was his “car theft ring” In reality, Akon was arrested for possession of a single stolen BMW and held in jail for a couple months before the charges were dropped

More insight can be had here

Apple Surpasses Wal-Mart As Largest Music Retailer

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

According to January and February sales, Apple has become the  world’s largest retailer of music. In under 5 years of existence, they have 50 million customers and sold over 4 Billion songs. That means Wal-Mart can stop censoring their CDs before selling them.

Wal-Mart

Apple

BEAMZ

Monday, April 7th, 2008

so i was at the king of prussia mall yesterday and had time to kill while waiting for my appointment at the “genius bar” at the apple store. i was walking around and wandered into the sharper image where i came across this:

So i was thinking, more sharper image products:

  • Folding massage chair with built in world clock
  • Wireless weather gauge with built in laser pointer
  • Meat thermometer with optional fishing rod attachment

I’ll do mockups of these products later

Tata for Now

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Tata, a large Indian steel company is finalizing their purchase of Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford for $2.3 billion hopes to turn around these failing brands in Europe and especially in the US.  Over the past 18 years, Jaguar cost Ford over $10 billion while last year Land Rover had a profit of $1.8 billion. This is good for Tata since they currently produce a line of basic trucks and the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano

Tata plans to turn Jaguar back into the premium car maker it once was and lose the old and retro styled looks much like Cadillac has done. The reason why this is great for Tata is that since Ford is having such difficulty in their home country, they are getting rid of brands to focus on resolving their downward spiral at home thus giving Tata a great bargain at two long standing and recognizable car brands known throughout the world.