December 17, 2009

Your Next Office? McDonalds

Starting mid-January 2010, McDonalds will be offering free wireless Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 fast-food joints, reports Download Squad. Whether it will be ‘gated’ via some kind of time code on your receipt, or really free remains to be seen. This opens a scarily interesting kettle of filet-o-fish: is this service going to

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Jingle A Day Gets This Guy Paid

Hobby jingle maker Love Harnell is copying the model proven by I Wear Your Shirt – matching the social media sharing and the one-dollar-per-calendar-day-of-the-year surcharge – but substituting jingles for shirts, according to a story on Mashable. With LoveJingles, which officially kicks off on January 1, 2010, Harnell will cover, write and perform jingles for

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7-Eleven Acquires New England Pantry

7 Eleven Acquires New England Pantry Business Wire: 7-Eleven, Inc. has announced the acquisition of New England Pantry, a company that operates 58 convenience stores under the White Hen Pantry brand, from affiliates of Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., a Houston-based wealth management firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition significantly

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