Live Green, Go Yellow

- GM Ad

Cars. Trucks. SUVs. What if they could run on E85 ethanol, a renewable fuel derived from corn, made up of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline?

America could move towards energy independence with a homegrown, renewable fuel source that actually reduces greenhouse gas emissions while it boosts your engine performance. Sound good?

Gets even better at LiveGreenGoYellow.com. Can every car in America run on yellow? Not yet. But GM has already put over 1.5 million FlexFuel Vehicles on the American road. And we’re just getting started.

Winning The Innovation Challenge

- Microsoft Ad

Elected officials from both parties are joining forces to address one of the nation’s key long-term challenges: Winning the innovation race.

America’s future competitiveness depends on scientific and techno- logical innovation. Innovation requires a well-educated, highly skilled workforce. America needs to expand and improve education, particularly in math, science and engineering. Innovation requires long-term investment in research and development. We must encourage innovation by strengthening and modernizing how we protect intellectual property.

IAC Will Rename Ask Jeeves to Ask.com

- (Wall Street Journal – February 9, 2006)

Ask Jeeves will be renamed Ask.com starting February 27, 2006. The company plans to invest millions of dollars to make Ask the core of its 60 online and retail brands; including, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, Match.com, CitySearch, Gifts.com and the television shopping network HSN. IAC spun out Hotels.com and the online travel service Expedia last year into a separately traded unit.

Chief Executive Barry Diller said that more than 200 million people use IAC’s businesses. Mr. Diller said Ask may offer an alternative to advertisers who want to reach users of search engines other than Google and Yahoo. Ask has increased its share of U.S. search queries to 6.3%, since it introduced changes. At the end of 2005, IAC had $2.6 billion in cash and marketable securities and $1.3 billion in debt, which includes $362 million in loans held by LendingTree.

Verizon Wireless to Add to Multimedia Offerings to Cellphone Customers

- (Wall Street Journal – February 9, 2006)

Verizon Wireless, as part of deal with Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. and News Corp.’s Fox, will allow certain Verizon Wireless customers to watch a variety of content on their cellphones. To get access to the new content, consumers must own a video-enabled phone and sign up for V-Cast, a $15-a-month service that is added to their regular Verizon Wireless subscription. The service is scheduled to become available in March 2006 and is the latest example of the push by wireless companies to integrate media content into their services.

So far, only about 1% of the nations’ roughly 200 million cellphone subscribers use mobile video services, but that number is expected to grow over the next few years.