Even better for Nissan, the auction made the news on AOL Time Warner 's CNN and in the Los Angeles Times free publicity rarely bestowed upon a mere product launch.
And that is the real message behind the "occupations" sprouting up around the country -- and the real significance to what might otherwise be a mere product launch in Cupertino, Calif.: the people are speaking -- directly to each other.
The company has just raised $120,000 from an undisclosed regional angel investment firm, notably a mere month after launching its service.
FollowFriday.com, a mere month after launching quietly, says it is already tracking more than 5 million users who actively participate in "FollowFridays" in its database, which has prompted them to create a – pretty decent – Twitter user search engine to help people find users worth following.
Airplane! made $83m on its first release in 1980 (on an outlay of a mere $3.5m), and launched an entire comedy franchise, from the Police Squad TV shows to the Naked Gun movies they grew into – reconfiguring, in the process, one-time 1950s romantic lead Leslie Nielsen into a comic hero.
Our guess is that means it'll be a mere $200 at launch, with 2-year contract.
Not a great sign, then, that some U.K. phone retailers appear to be cutting the price of Z10 tariffs, a mere month after launch — suggesting demand isn't as strong as hoped, and that the device isn't as competitive against the high end of Android and iOS as BlackBerry needs it to be.
The wildly popular hit 15 million installs a mere three weeks after launching on the OS.
Stipple, the San Francisco startup that lets people label, share and monetize pictures on the Web, today announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round co-led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mike Maples FLOODGATEE, a mere 3 months after launching.
