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TicketFly gives Ticketmaster a run for its money
Ticketmaster and Livenation dominate concert sales, but TicketFly is starting to emerge as a competitor. The ticket seller is offering a faster, less expensive ticketing system that's easier to use. The real question is, though, if TicketFly and other competitors could be able to topple the Ticketmaster tower.
TicketFly gets defectors
Since its 2008 founding, TicketFly has ...
Oil spill containment on hold as Tropical Storm Bonnie bores in
Tropical Storm Bonnie turned away from the Bahamas Thursday and aimed at the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 . Most work was halted on oil spill cleanup and oil spill containment efforts. The massive flotilla assembled by BP for the oil spill containment and cleanup waited for official word from Thad Allen, ...
Tempe Town Lake dam blows, blasts away homeless
It was to have lasted a quarter of a century or more, that Tempe Town Lake dam. The inflatable rubber dam created Town Lake for the city of Tempe, Arizona, a tourist destination and point of civic pride for residents. According to Associated Press reports, however, one of the 11-year-old dam segments burst. Two-thirds to ...
Suit against Toyota settled
Under threat of U.S. imports of hybrids being blocked, Toyota has settled a long-running patent infringement suit. In 1994, a patent covering "high voltage method to power gas-electric hybrid cars" was filed away. Toyota has agreed to license the technology from the Paice business.
The patent
The patent involves two motors giving torque to wheels. It became ...
Personal finances not so rosy, despite national reawakening?
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP for short) recently published the results of a poll that showed that Americans are optimistic about a national economic recovery in the next half year. However, as Bloomberg reports, the CFP study also shows that the majority of Americans don't have as much faith that their ...
