March Madness sweeps blogosphere: related news

March Madness sweeps blogosphere

March Madness is upon us, and odds are you have completed your tournament brackets, placed your bets and are tracking your picks via the Internet and TV as employers across the country brace themselves for drops in work productivity. The blogosphere is buzzing with talk of the tournament, and the influential bloggers have been having a field day this year. We started looking at the influencer's take on March Madness before the tournament began, and have seen how dynamic the conversations really are as the tournament has progressed.Â

New Movies And TV Shows For Xbox 360 In March

The Gamerscoreblog site has posted up word on what new movies and TV shows will be available to download for Xbox 360 owners in March. According to the post, "monthly sales are up more than 70% since September, 2007 and doubling month over month" (specific numbers were not revealed). Among the highlights are the Robot Chicken: Star Wars special on March 4 (released two months before it appears on DVD), new episodes of South Park beginning the week of March 10 and a free episode of the upcoming series Lewis Black: Root of All Evil (between March 13- March 20). ABC Family debuts on March 10 on the service with episodes of Kyle XY and Greek. As far as movies, classic films like Unforgiven and Bull Durham and new movies like Into the Wild and Gone Baby Gone will debut in both SD and HD versions.

Online Shopping Figures Equal March Madness for Brick and Mortar Businesses

Spring has arrived, Saint Paddy’s Day is here, The Easter Bunny is about to start hopping, and March Madness has gripped the country! What does all this mean? For 2008 retail chains, it means consumers are turning online to facilitate their buying needs. According to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on Internet shopping habits, more than 85% of the world's online population has used the Internet to make a purchase, increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years! “The numbers are merely representative of a growing trend� says John Horton, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for web hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc (www.AIT.com/?pdkw=pr-march-madness-fr-03-17-2008), “businesses are losing their foot traffic and have to turn online to make up for those losses.

Tandy Leather Factory March Sales Down 17% - Quick Facts [TLF]

Tandy Leather Factory Inc. (TLF) reported that sales for the month of March were $4.4 million, down 17% from $5.3 million in the same month last year. Retail Leathercraft posted a 4% sales decrease for March, with sales totaling $2.1 million, compared to $2.2 million in March 2007. Wholesale Leathercraft posted sales of $2.2 million for March, down 25% from March 2007 sales of $2.9 million.

NPD Sales for March 2008

April 17, 2008 - Sales figures for the month of March are in from the NPD Group. Nintendo continues to dominate hardware sales, with North Americans picking up more than 721,000 Wii systems and 698,000 Nintendo DS units in the month of March. PlayStation Portable came in third with 297,000 units, followed by the Xbox 360 with 262,000 systems last month. The battle is getting closer for the PlayStation 3 as it came in oh-so-close to the Xbox 360 in March: 257,000 systems sold through to consumers. And bringing up the rear is the last generation of PlayStation, with PS2s still selling impressive numbers: 216,000 PS2 systems sold to consumers in March.

March Madness On Demand Stats: 4.7 Million Unique Video Player Users; 4.9 Million Hours Served

The final stats are in for CBSSports.com’s most-open March Madness on Demand ... it’s hard to do perfect comps to previous years given the way the offering has evolved to include all the games this year, no online blackouts and social media outreach. Some of the numbers to be announced Monday:

Ore. clinic: March Madness a good time to get a vasectomy

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball’s March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?

Institute offers March Madness vasectomies

A Eugene, Ore., radio station and the Oregon Urology Institute are encouraging men to have vasectomies in time for the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.

March Museum Exhibits

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Rite Aid March Same Store Sales Up 2.6% - Quick Facts [RAD]

Rite Aid Corp. (RAD) reported that same store sales for the month of March increased 2.6%. Pharmacy same store sales increased 1.0% which included an approximate 493 basis points negative impact from new generic introductions. Front-end same store sales were up 5.7%. March same store sales were positively affected by a shift to a March Easter this year from an April Easter last year.

XA Subsidiary Produces the Armory Show 2008, the International Fair of New Art March 27 - 30, 2008

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XA, Inc., (XA) (OTC BB: XAIN), a major national event marketing firm that serves many Fortune 500 companies, reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, The Experiential Agency, Inc., has been selected by THE ARMORY SHOW 2008, THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF NEW ART as the design and production agency of record. The annual exhibition will take place from March 27 - March 30 at Pier 94 in New York City.

XA Subsidiary Produces the Armory Show 2008, the International Fair of New Art March 27 - 30, 2008

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XA, Inc., (XA) (OTC BB: XAIN - News), a major national event marketing firm that serves many Fortune 500 companies, reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, The Experiential Agency, Inc., has been selected by THE ARMORY SHOW 2008, THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF NEW ART as the design and production agency of record. The annual exhibition will take place from March 27 - March 30 at Pier 94 in New York City.

Port City Java March Sales Increase

Port City Java announces its same unit corporate café sales increased 4.5 percent for March 2008 over the same period in 2007. Overall Corporate Café sales increased by 13.56 percent for March 2008 over March 2007. Management is pleased with the performance of the units and believes the guest is responding to the core basics execution, increased hospitality service and the Breakfast With That (BWT) Program. The Program features breakfast wraps and sandwiches, foods that pair well with coffee. Management feels it is creating a new niche, a third wave of gourmet coffee excellence and creating brand differentiation from other companies in the gourmet coffee segment with its hospitality service and operational execution. The company believes its consistent execution of its LAM (Local Area Marketing) continues to introduce new Guest to P

Proxibid Live Auction Service Sees Record Growth in March

Proxibid, a provider of live auction webcasting services, announced record-breaking results for the month of March. The service hosted 482 auctions in a single month representing $227 million worth of goods offered on the site. On March 29, Proxibid hosted 51 auctions, breaking its record for the most auctions ever hosted in a single day. Proxibid also said it experienced a record number of registered bidders during the month of March.

Astronauts Enjoying Own March Madness

In this image provided by NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken participates in the missions fourth spacewalk Thursday March 20 2008 as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the 6-hour 24-minute spacewalk Behnken ...

Astronauts Enjoying Own March Madness

In this image provided by NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken, participates in the mission's fourth spacewalk Thursday March 20, 2008 as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the 6-hour, 24-minute spacewalk, Behnken and astronaut Mike Foreman (out of frame), replaced a failed Remote Power Control Module -- essentially a circuit breaker -- on the station's truss. The spacewalkers also tested a repair method for damaged heat resistant tiles on the space shuttle. The sample tiles will be returned to Earth to undergo extensive testing on the ground. (AP Photo/NASA)

Will Activision Get to the Beatles Before Apple?

Spring is in the air. It’s “March Madness,� the time for college basketball’s big tournament. Predicting the outcome has the odds-makers busy. If they can find some time, they might be equally challenged forecasting another unpredictable event that’s generating March Madness of its own: the digital licensing of the Beatles’ song catalog.

Tibetans in Exile Say: Time to Go Home

Tibetan core marchers continue their march to their homeland on the third day at Ranital around 40kms from Dharamsala on March 12, 2008. The 100 activists began their walk on March 10, 2008 as part of pro-independence protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics. They hope the march will highlight what they say are serious human rights violations in their Himalayan homeland. (Manan Vatsyayana, AFP/Getty Images)

Mercator Lines declares 8% dividend on preference shares

Mercator Lines Ltd has announced that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on March 13, 2008, inter alia, has declared dividend @ Rs 8/- per share on 8% Redeemable Cumulative Preference Shares of Rs 100/- each for the financial year ending March 31, 2008. The dividend shall be paid pro-rata upto March 17, 2008 (being the date of final maturity of Preference shares) to those members / deemed members whose name appeared in the Register of Members / Statement of beneficial ownership furnished by depositories at the end of business hours on March 12, 2008.

March Sadness: A Buzzer Beater!

March Sadness has its first overtime victory in the closely contested battle of the ESRB versus critical and commercial success differing, the games forgotten in the marketplace found success in March Sadness thanks to your votes, winning by just one vote when all was said and done. Will the underdog games become the cinderella pick of the tournament? Only if your votes say so.

March's Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: Lindsay, Kirby, GameStop, MasterCard and CSX...

March's Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: Lindsay, Kirby, GameStop, MasterCard and CSX Corporation CHICAGO--(Business Wire)-- Zacks.com announces the list of top performing Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks for the month of March. The stocks on the prestigious list with the highest returns last month were Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN), Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX), GameStop (NYSE: GME), MasterCard, Inc. (NYSE: MA) and CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX). Each of these stocks easily outperformed the S&P 500. Stocks ranked #1 (Strong Buy) by Zacks have produced an average annual return of +32% since inception in 1988. During the 2000-2002 bear market, Zacks #1 Rank stocks gained 43.8% while the S&P 500 tumbled 37.6%. To learn more about the Zacks Rank, go to at.

March of Dimes Georgia Launches Online Game for Charity Tournament

Delta Air Lines March for Babies Team Partners With March of Dimes to Raise $10,000 and Giveaway 25,000 SkyMiles and $250 in Prizes

March of Dimes Georgia Launches Online Game for Charity Tournament

ATLANTA, GA -- 04/29/08 -- Delta Air Lines March for Babies Team and the March of Dimes Georgia Chapter have partnered with Game for Charity to launch the first-annual online game tournament. For an online donation, participants play a five-minute..

March Online Search Market: A Rare Dip for Google

Things were ticking along nicely in the search world with not so much as a speed bump to be seen (set aside the market panic about Google’s (GOOG) paid click decline). Then along came March. Overall volume of search in March exploded, with total queries increasing over 6% and surpassing the 9 billion mark. That’s the biggest month-over-month increase in total search volume since July of last year. Interestingly enough, this growth was not driven by our perennial search leader Google. In fact, Google actually underperformed the market for the first time in 9 months and saw market share decline more than ½ a point. So where were the big gains?

Monster Madness: Grave Danger PlayStation 3 Screenshots

Following in the footsteps of Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia, Monster Madness: EX four player co-op gameplay has an all new polished look and improved game elements for its debut on the PLAYSTATION 3 system.

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