The recession of 2009 has claimed another victim.
Ritz Camera has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  The chain says the main reason is that sales were much lower than expected during the 2008 holiday season.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy is actually just a reorganization, which means that Ritz Camera will probably be around a while longer.  However, [...]

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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to jump on this.
The opportunity in the iPhone apps market right now is staggering.  It’s almost like a new “gold rush”.  So you’ve come up with a great idea for an iPhone app.  Now what?
The problem: how do you MAKE one?  First of all.  You [...]

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Here’s another new and depressing way to keep tabs on the latest employers to slash jobs.  Telonu is launching a new Layoff Tracker widget that can be added to any blog or website.
The Layoff Tracker widget actually pulls all of its data from other news sources, so there really isn’t anything unique about the info.  [...]

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Warning: stupid statement alert.
Andy Pemberton with the Times Online has written an article calling Twitter users narcissistic other things.  Here is what he has to say:
The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody [...]

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Google is cracking down on so-called “black hat” marketers. Starting tomorrow, they are implementing a new policy that will disallow multiple display domains per ad group.
What that means is you can only have the same domain showing in a specific ad group in the display URL field.
For example, you cannot have one ad in an [...]

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If at first you don’t succeed, maybe you should really know when to call it quits.
A South Korean woman who has flunked her driving test 775 times isn’t going to abandon her hopes of purchasing a truck one day to start her own business.
Sixty-eight year-old Cha Sa-soon has been trying to pass the written piece [...]

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Hollywood gossip site Defamer is being consolidated into Gawker, the entity’s main gossip website. Defamer, now in its fourth year, will act as Gawker’s entertainment column.
The stories that focus on the movie industry will still be posted on Defamer.com, but the two sites will be staffed and managed as one. Confused yet?
The main [...]

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Heath Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor tonight for his sinister portrayal of The Joker in the Batman movie “The Dark Knight”.  He is only the second actor to win an Oscar from the grave.
Heath Ledger’s victory comes just over one year after his passing from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
His award [...]

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Not exactly sure why we’re experiencing a global financial meltdown? Can’t tell a submarine from a sub-prime mortgage?
Then, this video is for you.
Dubbed “The Short & Simply Story of the Credit Crisis,” it’s exactly that. For those with a firm grasp of the problem, it might not add much, but for many people this [...]

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Today is the last day to apply for the “Best Job in the World”.
The Australian tourism board wants you to write a weekly blog post, maintain a video blog and upload your photos, all while exploring Australia’s Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
The six-month Island Reef Job pays about $100,000 for six months working a [...]

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