Richard Branson - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:52:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Bay Area Firm Claims Last Laugh with Jason Headsets.com Gambit The auctioned switch of one Jason Sadler‘s name to Jason Headsets.com officially took place January 1. A month later, the company that paid $45,000 for these goofy one-year naming rights is claiming victory:

“The money we paid to buy Jason’s last name equates to $900 a week, or $125 a day,” said company president Mike Faith. “That’s incredibly cheap for the $6 million value of [media] coverage we’ve already had on this. We’re calling Jason our Six Million Dollar Man.”

The company, founded in 1997 and specializing in headsets for office telephone systems, says that in addition to stories by outlets like CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch and The Huffington Post, their investment has triggered close to a quarter million in additional sales. The six-million figure comes via a study Headsets.com commissioned from Universal Information Services.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jason-headsets-auction-cnnmoney-techcrunch-huffingtonpost_b81384#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jason-headsets-auction-cnnmoney-techcrunch-huffingtonpost_b81384 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=81384 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:00:39 +0000 Internet Show Host Gives New Meaning to ‘Landing an Interview’ It honestly doesn’t get much cooler than this. To inaugurate Virgin America’s LA-Philadelphia route, What’s Trending host Shira Lazar has today bumped her usual Wednesday 10:00 a.m. PT broadcast slot to 1:30 p.m PT / 4:30 p.m. ET. So as to accommodate a live stream interview with fellow passenger Sir Richard Branson, with whom she crossed this great broadband land of ours today, west to east.

The conversation will take place on the ground at the Philadelphia end and will incorporate live viewer chat as well as questions submitted @whatstrending. Lazar will later share interviews done during the flight with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cast members Wiz Khalifa, Amber Rose and Glenn Hower.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/richard-branson-virgin-america-whats-trending-shira-lazar-philadelphia_b58387#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/richard-branson-virgin-america-whats-trending-shira-lazar-philadelphia_b58387 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=58387 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:23 +0000