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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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dollar as the dominant medium for exchange in the United States? Here I outline the rationale for such a private digital currency and explain how one might soon take off in the United States. Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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www.youtube.com Sarnoff’s speech was unusual at that time for the United States simply because it was the first time a news event was broadcast live for television. The TT-5 was considered the “everyman’s version” and had a starting price of $199 ($4,300 today). television market from taking off.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. I understand that with new technology the price is often hi but come on. April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM. — Goodbye 2. — Tony 11.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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