Dr. Dre and Monster just dropped the in-ear version of their Beats headphones, which cost $150 and are tangle free. Now they're waiting for you to pick it up. The most notable feature in its checklist of features is the tangle free cable design, which looks to us like a sort of flat-cable. Other cool details are the gold contacts, the heavier low-end (same as its larger brother) and a "sound-isolating eartip". The spec page doesn't list anything about an on-board Microphone, like the earlier version, so we're not sure if you can take calls on this. We'd guess not. [Apple Store via Crunchgear]
Time Out is hoping to sell its New York edition for $40 million (26.8 million) after its investors pushed for a return on their 13-year investmentthe magazine's founder Tony Elliot wants to hold on to the mag but can't afford to buy them out. He tells Times Online that a TONY sale will take place for the right price, but "if somebody offers $10 million, it won't happen." TONY's investors plowed a good deal of capital into the magazine in 1995 to get it goingThe Times puts it at between $10 million and $30 millionbut Elliot has not found a way, or the money, to take full control himself. And he's not happy about the move: TONY sells twice as many copies as its London counterpart and is firmly part of cultural life in Gotham. "We don't need to sell New York; this is entirely driven by the investors," he says.
And in this environment not many would fancy holding an open auction, even for the relatively low price of $40 million for a big magazine brand. Elliot owns the London edition but not Time Out's many international city editions, which are published under license by other publishersyet Elliot does own one third of the New York edition. Also on the auction block is TONY's stake in Time Out Chicago so investors could walk away with both U.S. Time Outs. The three New York shareholders own half of the Chicago title and Joe Mansueto of Morningstar owns the rest. First-round bids are expected this week.
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Evernote, a web- and app-based personal info storage service, has raised a $5 million second funding round from Russia's Troika Partners. The product, which works across Windows, Mac, the web and mobile, lets people clip bits of web text to save as a searchable collection of notes for later perusal. There's a $5-a-month premium version. Evernote has handwriting recognition and sharing features. It scored a $6 million first round from individuals in August 2006, when Esther Dyson and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin joined the board, but this round comes from the still-booming Russia. Troika also invested $5 million each in 3D games outfit iZ3D and 3D software maker ParallelGraphics. From RBC Daily via Quintura.
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CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Corona, the No. 1 U.S. import beer, last week debuted a global repositioning on its relaunched Corona.com site that moves away from the long-held "vacation in a bottle" approach typically linked to beachfront imagery. Instead, it's now emphasizing "refreshing moments" at parties and other social settings.
Peek's kinda-sorta email-only handheld is one of the more polarizing devices to hit this year. On one hand, anyone who cares that much about email in their pocket probably already owns an email-capable handset; on the other, those satisfied with their pay-as-you-go phone may seriously be interested in adding this to their arsenal. Regardless of your take on things, we figured you should know that it's available for "today only" at $49.95, clearly setting the bar for a Cyber Wednesday in years to come. 'Course, that $19.95 per month data requirement isn't going anywhere, but half a Benjamin might be worth it just to crack this sucker open and test your hacking skills.Filed under: Handhelds, WirelessPeek handheld: $49.95 for "today only" originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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When you're the top-trafficked social-networking site in the mobile world looking to up the rich-media ante, it seems that you would try to create some kind of collision course with the country's top-selling phone, which also happens to be one of the world's best portable media players. Or not.
Ok, so here is the difference between paid studies and independent research. How stupid do they think we are? A paid study that finds that laser printers are harmless sounds suspicious in itself. Looks like we should be a more careful how we handle laser printers.
