"Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America," by Julia Angwin (Random House, $27) ...more

March 22, 2009

PODS Adds Staff Clearwater storage company PODS Enterprise said it has added 116 employees as it adjusts to an increase in moving and storage demand from customers looking for alternatives to traditional services. The new hires are earning $35,000 to $50,000 and primarily are call center workers, the company said. ...more

March 19, 2009

Internet marketing expert Dan Stojadinovic had plenty of information and some useful Web sites to pass along during a seminar last Tuesday at the Quality Inn Conference Center in Sebring. ...more

March 15, 2009

A seminar designed to "get eyes" on a Web site and to use the Internet to leverage business "up a notch or ten" is planned next month in Lake Placid. ...more

February 15, 2009

Of course Barack Obama came to Florida this week. This is ground zero. Too bad he didn't show up during the Democratic primaries a year ago. Don't you wonder what he would have said then? ...more

February 11, 2009

The improvement district which operates Spring Lake is considering buying the 36-hole golf course. ...more

January 26, 2009

The new executive director of the Highlands County Economic Development Commission told the EDC board of directors that bringing high-paying jobs to the county is a "real high priority." ...more

January 18, 2009

Suntasia Settles For $50 Million The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that 14 defendants of Suntasia Marketing Inc. agreed to pay $16 million to settle charges. With an additional $33 million from another settlement, the total restitution will be nearly $50 million. ...more

January 14, 2009

"Shakespeare and Modern Culture," by Marjorie Garber (Pantheon, $30) ...more

December 28, 2008

Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed to come together four years ago. ...more

November 1, 2008