Craze

• Fishing Craze

  2008-02-11 18:16:56

  Joe and Martha have worked all their lives, and now they have retired and can do what they like best - go fishing! Help them go around the country in their RV, participating in fishing tournaments around the country.System requirements:• Windows 2000/XP/Vista• DirectX 7• 1 GHz• 512 MB RAMResolution: 800x600 Fullscreen / Windowed
• Slide takes $50 mln in funding amid Facebook craze

  2008-01-19 07:28:00

  By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity. Slide made some of the hottest programs running on Facebook and News Corp's MySpace, including media-sharing applications Slide Shows, Top Friends, SuperPoke! and FunWall. Max Levchin, its Ukranian-born and Chicago-raised founder, declined to name the investors. But sources close to the deal said they were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price. The round is nearly 10 times the size of the median round of $5.18 million for Web 2.0 firms in the first half of 2007, according to Dow Jones investment tracking unit VentureOne. This follows the roughly $500 million recently raised by Facebook from Microsoft Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, giving it an implied $15 billion valuation. Slide, incorporated in 2005, was originally
• Thai mahouts ride tourist craze for elephants

  2007-11-27 15:58:00

  By Gillian Murdoch SURIN, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - Trudging the city streets with a hungry four-tonne elephant at your heels is not a job
• Black Friday Craze Hits MapleStory

  2007-11-21 14:07:01

  Nexon America Holding Online Black Friday Sales for Popular ItemsLos Angeles, CA - November 20, 2007 - Nexon America Inc., the U.S. division of Asia’s leading online entertainment company Nexon Group, plans to hold a Black Friday sale for its most popular MapleStory items, giving its over four million users a chance to buy Cash Shop Items at a huge discount. MapleStory’s Black Friday sale will last throughout the week beginning on Friday, November 23rd and ending on Sunday, November 25th.Black Friday, generally regarded as the biggest shopping day of the year, has become commonly associated with the Thanksgiving holiday. “Predominantly targeted towards working professionals, teens and tweens have been largely excluded from the shopping craze, save from being dragged to the mall. Holding a Black Friday sale in MapleStory gives both younger and older Nexon fans an opportunity to join in on the fun of shopping and huge sales”, said Min Kim, director of operations at Nexon America.
• Pet Rat Craze

  2007-10-04 00:52:00

  It was bound to happen, it was completely inevitable, Pixar have started a pet rat craze in Paris, France. Breitbart.com reports how Gerald Moreau who runs a group which promotes rats as pets has said that hits to his website have risen 40% since the release of Ratatouille in France. Children are driving the craze -- seeking out soft-coated rats with floppy "Dumbo" ears like Remy, the hero of the Pixar comedy -- pushing parents to seek out tips on choosing and caring for a rat. says the article. You can read it in full here.Since the release of Ratatouille, has it urged you to go and buy a pet rat?Thanks goes to PixarVixen and Dash for the heads up
• iPhone Craze: Can the Niche Make you Money?

  2007-06-25 21:21:17

  Updated: 06-25-07 | 20:04 I have been hearing so much about the iPhone that money making blogs are posting them. Is it the keyword iPhone that triggers marketers to post and blog about it, even though it has nothing to do with their blog? Just to grab that traffic? That shouldn’t be so since it does [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Klaxons - Just a Craze?

  2007-04-07 10:16:18

  The Klaxons have been one of 2007’s biggest success stories to date, bringing ‘Nu Rave’ to the masses with their 90’s Electronica influenced anthems such as Magick, Golden Skans and Atlantis To Interzone from their debut album Myths Of The Near Future.