The man is accused of stealing purses and wallets in the East Bay and then using their owners’ credit cards to make the fraudulent purchases, according to a San Mateo police statement.
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From the City of Dripping Springs: The City of Dripping Springs will be able to complete a western-themed playscape at Harrison Ranch Park with the help of a ,000 Community Development Partnership Program grant that was presented to the
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Nothing speaks to the hearts, minds (and stomachs) of young, urban men than endless rib dinners. Last week, Bro-zine Thrillist launched Thrillist Rewards, a weekly deals site aimed at its audience of city-dwelling males. The top deal is a “Endless Ribs And Beer” meal (normally ) at Hill Country Barbecue in New York City. It has already sold more than ,000 worth of these rib dinners, and Thrillist only sent the deal via email to a fraction of its most loyal readers. There are still 8 days to go until the deal expires. Other deals include 55 percent off custom men’s shirts and street fighting lessons.
“We were expecting to start slow and see if there was any appetite for this but it turns out we’re onto something big,” says Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer, “or so it seems. For now rewards will be once a week in NYC with multiple deals delivered at a time, some which we think will drive significant revenue and some which we think will be more about access to exclusive offerings that only Thrillist can secure (with our deep local relationships that have been built over the course of the last 5 years). Plus they’ll all be targeted to our guys, who we obviously know very, very well.”
With Thrillist Rewards, Lerer is moving his online media company more into commerce, a trend he first tried last year when he bought JackThreads, a group-buying site for dudes. Thrillist Rewards will bring deals from restaurants and retailers directly to the Thrillist audience. Thrillist typically takes a 30 to 50 percent cut of each deal. If it works out, Lerer will expand to other cities soon.
The NFL has reduced the biggest fine it levied on James Harrison this season by one-third. Harrison’s fine was reduced from ,000 to ,000 for his hit on Cleveland wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi Oct. 17.
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Bad news for high rollers headed to Las Vegas: The Bellagio hotel is nixing its ,000 chip.
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee man who spent 23 years in prison for a
homicide he didn’t commit will receive ,000 in compensation from
the Wisconsin Claims Board, his attorney said Tuesday.
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Last night around 11PM, Tapulous released the latest version of what is one of the App Store’s most popular franchises of all time: Tap Tap Revenge 4. 18 hours later, it became the top application in the App Store, marking the sixth time Tapulous has held the #1 spot since the App Store launched in summer 2008 (TTR1, TTR2, TTR3 as a paid app, then again as a free app, TTR3 Boost , and TTR 4). Tapulous founder Bart Decrem says that this game launch has been “twice as fast, and twice as big” as TTR 3 was in the same time span.
The launch of Tap Tap Revenge 4 comes around six months after the company was acquired by Disney for an undisclosed sum.
Decrem, who now serves as SVP and General Manager for Disney Mobile, says that the game is seeing around 25,000 downloads per hour right now, which is on par with what it saw on Christmas day last year (app downloads see a major spike on Christmas as people try out their new iPhones and iPod touches, so expect this number to surge even higher this year). Decrem says this is the fastest any of Tapulous’s games have ever hit #1, and it may be the fastest growing game ever (though he doesn’t know that definitively).
Given that the company has such a large existing install base — Decrem says Tapulous is coming up on 50 million total downloads between all of its applications — Tapulous can more easily gain traction with a new game than a small-time developer could, because it can send promotions to existing users. But Decrem says that Tapulous is only tapping into around a third of its viral channels so far (namely, interstitials in TTR3), and that it will save its other big guns like emails and push notifications for once the initial buzz for the game dies down.
Among the new features introduced with TTR4 are support for Apple’s Game Center, higher resolution graphics for the iPhone’s Retina Display, a stronger social component where you can ‘Like’ songs and challenge users with similar tastes, and a wider selection of both free and premium music downloads.
Decrem says that Tapulous has some other big news coming up: in January it will be announcing its lineup for the leadership team of Disney Mobile based out of Palo Alto. Decrem also says that both Tapulous and other Disney applications are going to begin incorporating a standard set of analytics and advertising libraries, as it looks to become the App Store’s largest freemium gaming network.
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The family of George Aldrich, the Snowmass Village resident who disappeared on the night of Nov.
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