It’s time for a moment of inspiration. Breaking news this morning that Bankrate has acquired Bankaholic.com for $15 million.

Bankrate has agreed to pay $12.4 million up-front, and an additional $2.5 million possible payout over the next year. Bankaholic has just one employee, John Wu, who will stay on and assist with the transition.

The blog currently has Alexa ranking of 42,168 and averages about 15 comments per post...

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Microsoft’s latest strategy gives web searchers points when they use LiveSearch, which can be redeemed for prizes. Users who sign-up before the December 31 deadline, must agree to download a small program that tracks their usage. Once installed, the users will get one “ticket” per day for every LiveSearch query.

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Have you seen Google 2001? Google turns 10 years old this month and, as part of the festivities, Google will let you search the web as it looked in 2001, using GOOGLE as it looked in 2001.

It’s kind of trippy to see the old Google logo, not to mention that reading CNN.com’s headlines from 2001 also seems a little surreal. Can you believe that, at the time, Google had only indexed 1,326,920,000 pages? lol...

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Few things seem to generate as much excitment as the release of the annual Entertainment Book. Today, NeverBlueAds announced the release of the 2009 Entertainment Book. This one is sure to be hot. You've got to target the right audience, with 30- and 40-somethings, this will be huge. Target the family audiences with this one.

Headquartered in Troy, Mich., Entertainment Publications is one of the top providers of coupons and discounts. The company helps people get more bang for...

It’s been a while since we’ve given you a step-by-step example of how to profit from trends.

Today looks to be one of the best opportunities in a long time to give this method a whirl. If you’ve been on the fence and don’t know where to start, take notes. Let’s take a look at today’s headlines. Whoa, Citigroup is buying Wachovia.

That’s pretty huge. There are a lot of Wachovia and Citigroup shareholders who want to know what’s going on. Heck, lots of average Americans...