* 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
* Starbucks to expand selling wine, beer in US
* Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth
* Showdown Over ‘Showrooming’
* Does A Bus Kill Captain Kirk
* How Much You Spend Each Year on Stuff

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – People of Walmart – No, these are not actors or clowns. These are real people captured in candid photos at the local Walmart store. The choices in fashion and lifestyle are absolutely shocking, and this site has garnered much controversial attention because it allegedly typecasts people. But, truth be told: this site is an addiction for millions of viewers. Come see what the fuss is all about, and decide for yourself.

* HTC’s Patent Tweak May Be Too Little in Apple Fight
* Amazon weighed buying RIM
* AT&T drops bid to buy T-Mobile, plans $4B charge
* Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter
* Google turns up investment in solar power
* EA Bets it Big on Star Wars
* Blood pressure meds extend long-term life expectancy

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – Zeus Box Wallpaper – Everybody loves wallpaper for their monitor. Whether you have a regular or a widescreen display, you’ll absolutely love the visuals at Zeus Box. Movies, artwork, cute animals, steamy women, expensive sports cars, nature scenes… you’re bound to find something you like at this site.

* Groupon Is Now Worth Less Than $10 Billion
* Facebook plans IPO between April and June
* T-Mobile to Comcast, instead of AT&T
* Feds seize 150 websites in counterfeit crackdown
* EU data protection reform to replace national laws
* American Adults Are Fatter Than In 1990 And Happy About It
* Bing’s top searches for 2011

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – Art of Stars – Art of the Stars uses your IP address to draw a picture of the Star constellation directly above you. What is most interesting about this project is that it uses HTML5 to develop an application on the web in a similar manner to those currently built in mobile applications for the Droid and iPhone.

On this episode of the KenRadio Show, Ken Rutkowski talked about the unique opportunities the Asian governments are drawing savvy investors to their countries, Why the iPhone 4S battery is losing it’s charge, Half a billion Angry Birds and much more….…..

* Apple CEO Tim Cook makes some changes
* AOL Is Here Again
* Sony loses billions on TVs
* New carrier to offer $19 unlimited voice, text and data on November 8th
* U.S. clean tech companies get more venture capital
* Lonely people less likely to sleep peacefully
* Math grades improving
* Moscow’s Mars volunteers to ‘land’ after 520 days

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – Encyclopedia of Life – “Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth.” It is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million living species known to science. It aims to build one “infinitely expandable” page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text.

* NYSE.com suffers blips as Anonymous takes aim
* Apple says pre-orders of iPhone 4S break record
* Netflix kills plan to split off DVD rentals
* Facebook finally launches iPad app
* BlackBerry has outages in Europe, Africa, India
* Taking Carrier’s Revenue with iMessage
* Eco-friendly cremations

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – Tweetalicious – Twitter is used by many as a means to score news on special offers and deals, but there’s not a good way to see what you’re missing without following a bunch of businesses. Tweetalicious fixes that by giving you a separate feed of deals based on companies and preferences of your choosing. When you link your Twitter account to the Tweetalicious webapp or iPhone app, you’re asked to specify which categories interest you.

* BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices slashed in US
* IBM Tops Microsoft in Market Value
* Looks like Monday Does Suck
* Nokia to Eliminate 3,500 More Jobs
* iPhone 5 does exist! Next-gen device finally appears in leaked Apple inventory
* Brazil’s $12 billion iPad deal is in trouble
* SpaceX says ‘reusable rocket’ could help colonize Mars

Today’s Featured Company / Person – GoodRx – GoodRx shows both prescription and generic (where available) pricing for every major US pharmacy chain (Walgreens, CVS, Costco, WalMart, etc.), as well as discounts that might apply. Sometimes the drug prices only differ by $5-$10 or so between stores, but even then the small savings may be worth it—especially for prescriptions you have to refill regularly. As long as it’s the same drug, strength, quantity, and so on (from your prescription), it’s the same thing, after all.

* Broadcom to acquire NetLogic for about $3.7B
* Yahoo is Rid of Bartz
* Google’s Big Plans With Zagat
* Google Places Desktop App On Chopping Block
* ‘Hacker Fares’ save fliers cash
* New .xxx top-level domain ushers in a new era of Internet porn
* Kindle lets readers fire off questions to authors
* Boston Globe launches new pay website
* Dish to Launch Netflix Competitor in October
* Half of world’s personal computers use pirated software
* Global cybercrimes cost $114 billion annually
* The 10 U.S. cities with the best drivers

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Today’s Featured Company / Person – Manilla – Manilla is a safe and secure online bill management tool that makes it easy to pay anything from banking bills to insurance statements. Besides utility bills, you can even manage and update your travel rewards programs and magazine subscriptions in one convenient dashboard. And since companies on Manilla save so much on paper and postage costs, Manilla is completely free. With just one site, managing paper clutter, shredding old statements, manually filing documents or sorting through it all to find previous documents are finally a thing of the past.

* Facebook to kill Deals, its daily discount program
* Google sees more partners for Google TV
* Zynga planning to delay IPO’
* Why More Marketers Are Paying For Blog Posts, Tweets And Video Mentions
* 60-watt LED bulb to break $15 mark
* Deutsche Telekom: U.S. staffing not linked to AT&T deal
* China says to get tougher in fight against hacking
* American Airlines Begins Charging Extra for Window and Aisle Seats in Economy

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Hurricane Central Tracker – Weather.com has launched Hurricane Central, which features hurricane-related content, videos, maps, forecasts and analysis. It also includes news and information on current tropical systems, an interactive hurricane tracker map, hurricane preparation tips, and historical data on past storms. The website is hosting live chats with TWC experts meteorologists, and local affiliates will also blast alerts via text message to those who sign up. Experts have said that text messages are more likely to go through if the storm causes cell phone lines to become jammed.

* Google looks to ‘supercharge’ Android with Motorola Mobility
* 23 More Newspapers Hoist Up Paywalls
* Study suggests beautiful people ‘selfish by nature’
* Starbucks serves up free iPhone apps
* Windows 8 Coming Soon
* New BMW app lets drivers share top scenic routes
* Is High Blood Pressure a Virus
* Study finds mean people earn more money

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Skin Condition Finder – Whether it’s a new rash or something persistent, Skin Condition Finder is a tool that can help you research a skin condition, from the innocuous to the serious. Keep in mind though, it’s an educational tool and no replacement for a visit to the doctor. Skin Condition Finder walks you through a tutorial that lets you select the age and gender of the person in question and the area of the body where the condition is located.

* Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch
* Soon your cell phone might recycle its own energy and never lose a charge
* Chinese authorities find 22 more fake Apple stores
* Hulu expanding to Japan
* Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy
* Women smokers have more heart risk than men
* Boy or girl? A simple test raises ethical concerns
* Even tastier fish and chips on the way after scientists crack cod’s genetic code

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Leaky – Leaky is a neat new service that asks you a few questions and then gives you car insurance quotes from a huge list of providers (much like Simplee does for health insurance). While it’s just getting started, it’s already a good way to start comparing costs and coverage. Using Leaky is very simply. You just visit the site, answer some questions about your car, your driving history, and yourself, and then Leaky will generate quotes from as many providers as it can.

* Verizon seeks injunctions against strikers
* Some Good Numbers for Book Publishers
* Spotify Had a Good First Month in the U.S.
* Robots put leadership under skills pressure
* Sony, Panasonic, Samsung in 3-D glasses deal
* Boeing unveils first Dreamliner
* Walgreens To Start Selling Health Insurance
* Jonathan Stark wants you to use his Starbucks card

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Boxify.me – Boxify.me is a free web service that allows you to upload files you’d like to share with others, all without signing up for a service or hosting the files yourself. The service lets you create “boxes,” either public or private, where you can make those files available. Boxify.me stands out because it doesn’t require a sign-up, and unlike Dropbox or similar services you don’t have to fill your own quota with files that you want to share with others. Plus, the service allows you to make private boxes to share with individuals you send the download URL to. Plus, the interface is easy-to-use and completely free.

* It’s Official: Apple Is Now More ‘Open’ than Google
* Why No One’s Watching Porn on Their TV Anymore
* Wikipedia Is Losing Contributors
* First FBI Mobile App Aims to Help Find Missing Kidse
* AT&T to crack down on users who tether without a tethering plan
* Is Your Internet Connection as Fast as You Think It Is?
* Comcast Rolls Out $10 Internet Access
* NASA successfully launches its Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft

Today’s Featured Company / Person – LazyMeter – Webapp LazyMeter just emerged from beta and lets you hone in on the tasks you have to do today and focus on them. Each day you only see the tasks you have to do today, and you can either start them, pause them and push them to tomorrow, or mark them completed. LazyMeter is built around the notion that you should end the day feeling like you accomplished something, or at least worked towards finishing the things you had to do that day..

* Apple has more money than the US government
* Nintendo: Apple’s Latest Prey
* Yahoo, Alibaba Make Peace—at a Price
* In Deal With NBC, Amazon Seeks to Widen Its Video Streaming Service
* Google launches Hotel Finder
* Google Has Patent Issues
* AT&T to throttle data speeds for ‘unlimited’ hogs
* Veins in palms scanned to reduce medical errors at NYC hospital

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Readefine Desktop 2.0 – Google Reader is great for funneling news into a digestible, easy-to-read format, but it’s not very attractive. Readefine Desktop is a desktop reader that connects to Google Reader or any RSS feed you provide and displays your articles in a beautiful magazine-style layout.

* Why long term investments in start-ups are a tricky thing
* Should daily deal sites change the way they are attracting merchants
* The chance the US dollar will stand up against other currencies
* What are the top sectors in five years
* The companies that are lost and nowhere to be found
* When is the right time to sell your company

Today’s Featured Company / Person – We Choose The Moon – WeChooseTheMoon.org was designed to celebrate the Fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar landing by developing an interactive recreation of the event. The site uses Flash to mesh archival video, audio, & photos into an experience that will make you feel as if you too had walked on the moon that day.

* Verizon Kills Unlimited Data Plan This Thursday
* AFox News Twitter Account Hacked, Claims Obama Killed
* Netflix Expansions to 43 Countries
* Reed Hastings Joins Facebook’s Board
* Chinese government may be looking at buying ‘huge chunk’ of Facebook shares
* US tablet users paid $53 for apps
* Saltwater ocean lurks beneath Saturn moon
* The 15 Biggest Retailers In America

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Proposalpad – Running a business requires you to frequently send custom business proposals to potential clients. Thus having a competent system to create and manage proposals is imperative. ProposalPad is precisely such a system which lets you create custom proposals.

* Internet body approves new web suffixes
* Another Senior RIM Executive Leaves BlackBerry Maker
* Apple rumored to offer next-gen MacBook Airs with black finish
* Demand for video driving mobile data traffic
* Redbox launches program for video game rentals
* Skype adds more Facebook features
* Japanese supercomputer becomes world’s fastest
* Japanese supercomputer becomes world’s fastest
Using Boiling Water to Recharge a Mobile Phone

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Skype 5.5 Beta for Windows – Skype’s new beta for Windows now allows you to chat directly with Facebook friends and access your Facebook contacts. The app has a new Facebook Contacts tab that will bring up all of your Facebook friends, and allows you to see their online status and start a conversation with them. Skype for Windows already allows you to read your Facebook news feed, but the beta also allows you to “like” statuses and comment on them without logging in to Facebook on the Web to do it.

* Pandora IPO’s for $2.6bn
* Apple starts selling unlocked iPhones in US
* Apple Stores Chief to Take the Helm at J.C. Penney
* Facebook hires former Clinton press secretary
* Cable operators to Netflix: Bring it on
* Senators introduce mobile location privacy bill
* TV DVR units consume $3 billion in energy
* Sleepy people eat more

Today’s Featured Company / Person – My Places – A new feature called My Places began showing up in Google Maps this morning, and it acts as a collection hub for all the locations a user has starred, rated, or reviewed. It also lists all saved maps, which used to fall under the My Maps section. In case you’re wondering, My Maps has been lumped under My Places.

* Comcast’s $4.4B Olympian bid a bold online bet
* Spain Arrests Three in Sony Site Attack
* IMF cyber attacked
* Teen brain response linked to pop songs’ success
* Obesity surgery fails to extend life in older men
* Apple’s iPhone Gets Certified for Use on the International Space Station
* Facebook looking at IPO in first quarter
* Cell phones Causing Interference on Flights
* Glenn Beck Planning Web TV Channel GBTV

Today’s Featured Company / Person – URL Droplet – URL Droplet is a simple webapp that allows you to paste in the download link for a file and have it download straight to your Dropbox, so you can deal with later. Using the webapp, a user could start a large download while out on their mobile phone, on a company computer at work, or just sitting at an internet cafe. The downloaded file is saved in the main Dropbox directory—if it were saved to public, anybody could see what you’ve been getting. Because of this, URL Droplet needs access to Dropbox, so you should be comfortable granting permissions to third-party apps.

* Groupon to Gauge Limits of IPO Mania
* Steve Jobs to deliver Apple keynote next week
* Windows 8 previewed by Microsoft
* Mobile phone brain cancer warning
* Google gets into local bargain game with Offers
* Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password in Tennessee
* Malaysian Man Ordered to Tweet 100 Apologies
* The most socially ‘engaging’ TV networks
* The most-watched TV shows on Comcast

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Minutes.io – Creating well-organized meeting minutes can be time-consuming, yet the best time to send those minutes is ASAP after the meeting has ended. Minutes.io simplifies this task very nicely. Pop open the webpage when the meeting begins and add clearly defined minutes as you go along. The template provided lets you track attendees and add agenda items (to-dos, questions for follow up, etc.) with due dates and owners. After the meeting is over, you can quickly email the minutes to all the attendees.

* Google bid $100M for cloud music rights
* Sprint stock keeps soaring. But why?
* PayPal sues Google over mobile wallet technology
* Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm Gold in Online Games
* Thailand arrests American for alleged king insult
* Moon may have more water than believed
* Motorist Caught Using Two Mobile Phones While Driving
* Facebook co-founder killing his own food

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Soluto – When your computer crashes, you can send a report to Microsoft, but that doesn’t help you very much. Soluto collects crash reports and their solutions from other users, so when a program crashes you can get it fixed right away. Soluto has long been an awesome tool to speed up your system boot, but they’ve just released a huge update that also speeds up your browser and collects crash reports from all its users to help you fix them quickly.

* Internet chiefs set to address G8 summit
* Welcome to the Lady Gaga Wars
* Nokia to launch its first Windows phone
* Google turning smartphones into wallets
* AT&T announces 5 cities for faster wireless data
* Netflix overtakes Bittorrent as traffic champ
* Tesla Motors to raise up to $214.3M

Today’s Featured Company / Person – Fly or Drive Calculator – With both gas and airline ticket prices skyrocketing, it may be hard to tell whether driving or flying is the better value (in terms of both money and time). This “Fly or Drive Calculator” can help you wisely plan your next trip. BeFrugal.com’s Fly or Drive Calculator uses cost data from AAA and things like necessary overnight stops for the driving time and cost estimate. The flying estimate takes into account travel time to the airport and other associated times and costs. You can fine-tune the details for both modes of travel in the calculator to get more precise results.

* Sony to report $3.2 billion annual loss
* LinkedIn may cause the next big Crash
* Bing laces search results with Facebook connections
* Cisco braces for biggest layoffs in its history
* AOL says no thanks to private equity
* An X Prize for Mobile Diagnostics
* No Surprise: DVD Sales Plunged Over 40% Last Year
* Netflix’s Internet traffic overtakes Web surfing
* No 3 Things to Expect From Hulu’s New Content Deals

Today’s Featured Company / Person – CarStations.com – CarStations.com is a resource dedicated to the expansion and adoption of cleaner vehicles. By providing open source Google Maps and vehicle charging and fueling station details, users can quickly locate and engage with stations near them. CarStations.com is completely free and provides details on all types and brands of clean fuel products. This website is designed to accommodate both computer browsers and mobile devices to reach the broadest possible audience and welcomes user interaction in the form of comments, updates and user generated content.

Venture capital was one of the best asset classes in the world before the dot-com bubble burst. Over the next 10 years, returns plummeted as a result of too much capital in the sector and a lack of public market liquidity. So today, the venture capital community finds itself at a cross roads. While the asset class has been largely abandoned by institutional investors, this disinterest will paradoxically lead to superior returns in the future.

Just as Beta was a better format for all kinds of reasons-mostly how the video looked, it was not going to make it once the porn industry through their weight behind the VHS format. The same holds true for Mobile Wimax vs. LTE. In using mobile Wimax on Sprint and Clearwire, there isn’t a data cap when you’re on 4G. Latency is low and the ability to download videos, make Skype or SIP calls, and download/upload your email, as well as stream is almost a twin to the way a T-1 performs. You feel like you’re really on the Internet. Sending of email is the fastest I’ve ever seen from a mobile device. Now as far as LTE on Verizon goes first the footprint may be in more markets, but get into the suburbs and watch the speeds fall. In building coverage is another issue, but the same is true for the Sprint Overdrive, but the real issue is when you think you’re in 4G territory and you have a 4G connection, and it’s not. Basically, you’re getting a 4G signal, but you’re on the fringe of coverage and there’s no auto-fallback to 3G it seems. This is where the Sprint/Clearwire combination seems to win out, there and with the pricing.

Both devices are excellent travel accessories, as you can have as many as five (5) users on each device. This makes them great ways to make VoIP calls from your iPhone or Android over the networks too, especially Verizon, where Skype and others don’t easily function for calling.

The bottom line is simply this. If you’re in a Sprint 4G market go with Sprint. If you’re not, then Verizon Wireless’ LTE is a useful option, but you better mind the cap!

* Google Music stumbles at launch
* Why Skype got all that money from Microsoft
* Sony: hackers launched no new PlayStation attack
* AT&T, T-Mobile face off against rivals on merger
* Former Acer CEO: iPad Is Killing The PC
* Giant Porn Company FriendFinder Networks Prices Its IPO
* Can I split a check with my Groupon coupon?

Today’s Featured Company / Person – ReviewAndJudge – ReviewAndJudge is a handy webapp that helps identify the good sites from the bad. If you have a site you think might be a scam, you simply enter it into a search field and you’ll be presented with a report.
The details of the report will vary based on what ReviewAndJudge finds.