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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Google cuts deal for Dealmap
Can I get a discount for some Groupon envy treatment?
Google has acquired Dealmap, a California-based startup that will fuel Mountain View’s efforts to mimic
Groupon.
Launched in May 2010, Dealmap aggregates “daily deals” from hundreds of sources, and...
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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Google cuts deal for Dealmap Can I get a discount for some Groupon envy treatment? Google has acquired Dealmap, a California-based startup that will fuel Mountain View’s efforts to mimic Groupon. Launched in May 2010, Dealmap aggregates “daily deals” from hundreds of sources, and according to the company, its various services are now used by over 2 million people. “We are impressed with what The Dealmap team has accomplished and excited to welcome them to Google,” Google said in a statement shared with various news outlets. “We’ve been thrilled with the early success of our commerce offerings, and we think they can help us build even better products and services for consumers and merchants. ” Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Google recently rolled out its own daily deals service, Google Offers, after apparently failing in a bid to purchase Groupon, the poster child of the online daily deals services. Google Offers was first launched i
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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Apple may have tough road in Amazon lawsuit
by Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta
http://www.
reuters.
com/article/2011/06/22/us-apple-amazon-idUSTRE75L79Y20110622
(Reuters) – Apple Inc may face hurdles in stopping online retailer Amazon.
com Inc from using Apple’s
App Store name through a...
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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Apple may have tough road in Amazon lawsuit by Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta http://www. reuters. com/article/2011/06/22/us-apple-amazon-idUSTRE75L79Y20110622 (Reuters) – Apple Inc may face hurdles in stopping online retailer Amazon. com Inc from using Apple’s App Store name through a trademark lawsuit, a U. S. judge indicated at a hearing on Wednesday. Apple, the maker of best-selling iPhones and iPad tablets, filed a lawsuit saying that Amazon has improperly used Apple’s App Store name to solicit software developers throughout the United States. At the hearing in an Oakland federal court on Wednesday, District Judge Phyllis Hamilton said she would reread some of the supporting papers in the case, according to an individual who was at the hearing. However, Hamilton said Apple had a “stumbling block” in proving that anyone would confuse Apple’s App Store for Amazon’s Appstore for Android, the individual said. Hamilton did not make a final
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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Zurich streets among Europe’s most congested
by Matthew Allen in Zurich
http://www.
swissinfo.
ch/eng/swiss_news/Zurich_streets_among_Europe_s_most_congested.
html?
cid=30634398
Everyone needs to learn to share the streets
Zurich car drivers spend more time stuck in traffic jams than in most...
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Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Zurich streets among Europe’s most congested by Matthew Allen in Zurich http://www. swissinfo. ch/eng/swiss_news/Zurich_streets_among_Europe_s_most_congested. html? cid=30634398 Everyone needs to learn to share the streets Zurich car drivers spend more time stuck in traffic jams than in most other European cities, but the city is unrepentant about its pedestrian friendly policy. A recent survey has revealed that more than a quarter of roads in Switzerland’s main business conglomeration are clogged, putting Zurich in 16th place in the list of most congested cities. The survey by Dutch navigation system maker TomTom comes days after a critical report in the New York Times accusing Zurich of “working overtime in recent years to torment drivers”. The article reports that traffic lights are programmed to favour trams while pedestrian crossings have been moved from underground passages to street level. The TomTom analysis found that daytime traff
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