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Logo.com Buys Logo.com For $500,000 Top
Logo.com, LLC this morning announced that they have bought the domain name Logo.com for $500,000 through domain marketplace Sedo . The company was – obviously – formed in order to act as the parent corporation of what the site will become, and to facilitate the domain purchase. The company, which will provide logo design and related services to small businesses, was founded by veteran domain investors and ecommerce developers Adam Strong and Alan Townsend. Logo.com will provide logo design as well as website design, business card and letterhead design and printing services. The company also plans to introduce other small business services, such as domain registration, Internet marketing consulting and accounting. The launch of the website is scheduled for Q1 2011. Strong and Townsend plan on establishing Logo.com as a global brand. They make a compelling argument for having spent half a million dollars for the domain name, which was first registered back in 1995, based on that strategy: “The word logo translates the same in English, German, French, Italian, Polish and other languages. Once they visit our site, we'll give these customers the ability to shop in their own language. Because the word logo is relevant in so many countries outside of the U.S., Logo.com gives us the ability to compete on country specific search engines." Adam Strong is President of Strong Inc. , a domain development and brokerage company, and has been involved in the sale of over $10 million in domains through his company DomainDealer.com. He’s also the co-founder of DomainNameNews.com , an online domain industry news publication. Alan Townsend most recently served as President of Ecommerce at Personal Creations, a retailer of personalized gifts, which was acquired by Provide Commerce in July 2010. Townsend has also developed and managed some of world's leading domain names including Christmas.com, ValentinesDay.com, MothersDay.com, FathersDay.com and many others. The price tag on the domain name puts the sale in the eleventh spot of top sales for 2010 , tied with IPO.com but well behind number one, Slots.com ( $5.5 million ). CrunchBase Information Sedo Information provided by CrunchBase
 
Amazon Now Allows You To Send Gift Cards To Friends On Facebook Top
As holiday shopping season ramps up, Amazon is announcing a new way to send a gift card to friends: Facebook. Now, when buying a gift card on Amazon you can connect your Facebook account send the personalized gift card to a Facebook friends (you can also send gift cards via mail, email and print certificates). The card will be posted on the recipient’s Facebook Wall. Now on the gift card platform, you can choose to log-in to Facebook via Facebook Connect, which will allow Amazon to access your friends’ names and birthdays, and post the gift card to your friend’s Wall on the delivery date (Amazon says that user data and purchase history will remain private). The sender can choose a gift card design, specify an amount up to $5,000 and provide an optional gift card message. Senders can schedule the gift card to appear on the recipient's Facebook Wall up to a year in advance. The gift card will be delivered via a post on the friend’s Facebook Wall (only the recipient can see the amount and claim code) And the sender can choose whether everyone can see the gift card message, or only the recipient. That’s actually an important feature because you may not want all of your friend’s Facebook friends to know you gave a friend a gift. As a buyer, I also wish that I could send the recipient a companion email, so that the he or she knows that I are giving them a gift on their Facebook wall. To encourage shoppers to use the new feature, the first 10,000 customers who give an MP3-themed Amazon.com Gift Card to five different Facebook friends will get a $5 credit good for music downloads at Amazon MP3. This integration with Facebook isn’t surprising. Amazon is increasingly turning towards to the social network to incorporate users’ social graph into their Amazon.com experience. A few months ago, Amazon rolled out a new social feature that allows users to receive recommendations based on information in your Facebook profile and friends preferences. CrunchBase Information Amazon Information provided by CrunchBase
 
CrunchGear's MacBook Air Review: Power And Fine Design For a Price Top
Short Version : There will be no pleasing either side of the Apple fanboy divide with this review so I’ll say it up front: If you’re looking for an alternative to a heavier Apple laptop – a MacBook Pro, say, or an Apple Powerbook 170 – and you travel, the MacBook Air is an excellent choice. If you rarely travel and/or are not a Mac fan, you will probably be better served by a cheaper netbook. Read more…
 
Try Out Part Of Google TV In Your Browser Right Now Top
A good chunk of Google TV runs inside a browser. Besides the main menu, everything else like the search, web apps, and a lot more are simply webpages and search queues. This means that you can essentially try out the service — or integrate some of it into your HTPC — right now. This hit me shortly after I posted our full review and I managed to grab the URLs of two of Google TV’s main products: TV Search & Spotlight. Google TV Search is the platform’s secret sauce and would be crazy useful outside of the product, but alas, those URLs seem to self destruct after a few quick minutes. Still, most people are smarter than I, so I pasted the link below anyway, with the hope someone can deconstruction them and out something useful. Just don’t bother navigating to it, it won’t show the awesome search tool. Read More
 
Oracle Buys eCommerce Software Giant ATG For $1 Billion Top
ATG , provider of eCommerce software and related on-demand commerce optimization applications, this morning announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle for $6 per share in cash, or approximately $1 billion. ATG's eCommerce software platform is complementary to Oracle's CRM, ERP, Retail, and Supply Chain applications, as well as its portfolio of middleware and business intelligence technologies, the company said in a statement .
 
Lookout Goes Pro With Paid Version Of Smartphone Security Software Top
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a premium service today. Lookout's web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones helps users from losing their phones and identifies and block threats on a consumer's phone. Users simply download the software to a device, and it will act as a tracking application and a virus protector much like security software downloaded to a computer. Lookout Premium for Android is essentially a suped up version of the free offering an includes new security and privacy features. With the Privacy Advisor feature, users can scan every app they download and quickly view a comprehensive list of apps that can access their private data, such as identity information, location, and messages. Additionally, consumers can view detailed app reports on the capabilities of these applications on their phone. The premium plan also includes the ability to remotely wipe and lock a phone in case it is lost or misplaces. You will also be able backup and restore photos and call history, contacts and other data from different phones. The free apps feature malware, virus and spyware protection, limited data protection and the ability to locate a missing device. Lookout Premium for Android phones is available for $2.99 per month or $29.99 annually, with a free 30-day trial. In conjunction with the new paid offering, Lookout is also announcing that it has 3 million users (adding one million users only two months) and was recently featured in a Verizon Wireless commercial (see below). As we’ve written in the past, Lookout’s business is flourishing as smartphone adoption continues to rise. Users are becoming more aware of the security risks associated with the increased data and application usage on these devices. In a recent study, Lookout found that more than 91% of consumers have some level of concern with the privacy of information on their phone, and only 7% of smartphone users feel extremely confident that they understand what private information is being accessed on the phone. Lookout also found that on average, users have 31 apps on their phones that can access their identity information, 19 apps that access their location and five apps that access their SMS and MMS messages. CrunchBase Information Lookout Information provided by CrunchBase
 

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