Google recently announced plans to enhance Gmail by introducing a ‘Priority Inbox’ which will soon be rolling out to its estimated 200mm global users. Experian CheetahMail’s deliverability team has received many inquiries about the new interface, what it may mean for our clients, and how it could affect deliverability. From a deliverability perspective, this feature [...]
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Everything Email Marketers Need to Know About Gmail’s Priority Inbox
The Best Hotel Fitness Centers
Three hotels made our list of the best hotel gyms, and we didn’t even break a sweat. By John Brandon | Aug 24, 2010 Hotel fitness centers often seem like an afterthought, nothing more than cramped rooms with a few outdated exercise machines. But at these hotels, the fitness centers are destinations. W New York — [...]
Bank of America and Visa to Test Smartphone-as-Credit-Card System
BY Dan Nosowitz Using a smartphone or cellphone as a credit card has been in practice for years in Japan and South Korea, but us backwards yokel-type Westerners are still using actual slivers of plastic to make transactions. How very 20th century! There’s been lots of talk about adopting a similar system here in the [...]
Is the iPhone Finally Ready for Business Use?
Apple has made serious strides in making its smartphone more business-friendly. Here’s our verdict on whether it has come far enough. Let’s try for a minute to ignore all the reports about the dropped-call epidemic plaguing Apple‘s iPhone 4. Instead, let’s focus on its myriad of other capabilities and tackle the real burning question for [...]
Restaurants Serve Perks for Loyalty
By JULIE JARGON Loyal diners used to be rewarded with free meals or a slice of cake on their birthdays, but now recession-hit restaurants are crafting new ways to hang on to their best customers. They are dangling free trips, a shot at buying pricey items like rare coffee beans and chances to sample new [...]
Stink Bug: VW Beetle Powered By Human Waste Makes Debut
Electric cars seem downright inefficient compared to the Bio-Bug, a VW Beetle rigged to run on biogas, or methane gas generated from human waste during the sewage treatment process. The Beetle, designed by British sustainable energy company GENeco, performs like a regular car–except it can take compressed methane gas in the tank along with regular [...]
A Break-room Alternative: The FruitGuys
Looking for something healthier than what’s in the snack machine? Call The FruitGuys. Chris Mittelstaedt’s San Francisco-based business provides more than 1,000 clients with fresh fruit as an alternative to the usual break-room fare. With revenue of $7.7 million, the 12-year-old company claimed position 2,001 on the 2009 Inc. 5000. I had lots of friends [...]
RIM Tells Apple To Be Accountable
Bank Failures #92 to #96: Florida, Michigan, South Carolina
From the FDIC: NAFH National Bank, Miami, Florida, Acquires All the Deposits of Two Institutions in Florida and One Institution in South Carolina Metro Bank of Dade County, Miami, Turnberry Bank, Aventura, Florida, and First National Bank of the South, Spartanburg, South Carolina As of March 31, 2010, Metro Bank of Dade County had total [...]
Open Letter to Cavs Fans from Owner
Dear Cleveland, All Of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers Supporters Wherever You May Be Tonight. As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland Cavalier. This was announced with a several day, narcissistic, self-promotional build-up culminating with a national TV [...]
BuyWithMe Expansion
A lot of venture money is chasing social commerce startups right now because group buying sites are chasing a lot of money (in the form of consumer spending). Groupon kicked things off with its $135 million mega-round last April. LivingSocial has raised $49 million so far. And now BuyWithMe just closed a $16 million B [...]
Media Elite Retreat
Looking for all of your Mogul friends? I am sorry that you did not get the call but everyone is in Sun Valley, Idaho. The Media Elite that include the likes of Google’s Eric Scmidt, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of IAC and chairman of Expedia, Edgar Bronfman, chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, [...]
War on “DRUGS”
A friend of mine sent me this article that I thought was quite the eye opener. After reading this article, it allowed me to see that the war on drugs extends past the obvious illegal substances that are plaguing society today. You are probably wondering, what does this have to do with you and your [...]

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