--(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 12/10/2007 - Business service industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. By snapping up everything from a toothbrush taken from Paris Hilton's trash to an O.J. Simpson rubber Halloween mask, Americans turned pop culture obsessions into commerce this year* on eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), where you can find and win practically anything. By examining the volume of items sold relating to pop culture phenomena in categories ranging from celebrity scandals to blockbuster films to tech gadgets, eBay has identified exactly what Americans were most fascinated by in 2007. "What Americans buy and sell every day is one of the best indications of what they're obsessed with," says Karen Bard, eBay's pop culture expert.
IPTV Corporation (OTC: IPTV), has appointed world renowned technologist Dr. Steve Chen as a member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Chen is widely considered one of the leading system architects and technologists in the United States having been described by the New York Times as a ``pioneer'' and ``visionary'' as well as ``one of the nation's most brilliant supercomputer designers.'' Dr. Chen is best known as the Chief Architect of Cray Research's Cray X-MP and Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers which were the most commercially successful parallel vector platforms ever released.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN): Holiday shoppers looking for the season's must-have toys at great prices can find them at the Amazon.com Toy store (www.amazon.com/toys). "December Deals" offers customers incredible savings on over 2,300 of the holiday's hottest toys, including over 200 items at a 60 percent discount. Customers can also visit The Holiday Toy List (www.amazon.com/holidaytoylist), where innovative navigation tools and videos on every product page help customers navigate over 450 of this year's top toys, video games and sporting goods.
Wait times at the airport, doctors' offices and restaurants just got a little bit more interesting for Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) customers in metropolitan Detroit who can now watch broadcast-quality television on select TV-enabled handsets. V CAST Mobile TV from Verizon Wireless offers customers in parts of southeastern Michigan broadcast-quality picture and sound from the best of broadcast and cable television, including live shows and other mobile television content 24 hours a day. With V CAST Mobile TV on their Verizon Wireless phones, customers can catch sporting events, breaking news and their favorite network TV shows -- not to mention make phone calls -- while on-the-go
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