Category Archives: Economics

Grist – The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme

I can’t say I agree with this, but it fits my per­cep­tion of America’s infrastructure.

June 28, 2011 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Capital One to buy ING online bank

I’m a huge fan of ING Direct, been using them for years so I hope this doesn’t hurt them in any way.

June 16, 2011 – 8:28 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

The more I read about Groupon the more I want this busi­ness to just go away.

June 13, 2011 – 6:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Mac Rumors – Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions

Good news for pub­lish­ers and ser­vices like Amazon’s Kin­dle and Netflix.

June 10, 2011 – 12:55 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Financial Times Introduces Web App in Effort to Bypass Apple

The first big name pub­lisher to switch to a web app for pub­lish­ing and not deal with Apple’s 30% cut.

June 7, 2011 – 5:50 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Greenpoint Gazette – An Open Letter from Eugene Mirman to Time Warner Cable

It only gets better.

June 2, 2011 – 9:16 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Official Gmail Blog – Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps

Wouldn’t that be amaz­ing if this is start of all web applications/sites being able to only sup­port this same list of browsers.

June 2, 2011 – 1:01 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off