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Hummer's Dead. Long Live The New Hummers.

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If the Hummer is the equivalent of the flashy, flamboyant Apollo Creed from the "Rocky" films, then the Kombat is Ivan Drago putting him to rest "Rocky IV"-style.

This Russian-built behemoth's V8 can push it to 110 mph, which is no small feat when it's plated in steel and three-inch-thick windows. It can withstand a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade, but a proposed $1.5 million Prombron version also features bulletproof wheel hubs and a Vertu mobile phone with a panic button.

Though the costlier model's gold-plated windows, ruby- and diamond-encrusted gauges and extra layer of Kevlar have drawn interest from the Prince of Monaco and former tennis champ Marat Safin, its production is on indefinite hold after the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and Pamela Anderson complained about the company's choice of upholstery material: whale penis leather.

Though Dartz failed to replicate Aristotle Onassis' use of the material as barstool upholstery for his yacht, it managed an even greater feat: winning a war of sexual euphemism with a company called Hummer.

-- Reported by Jason Notte in Boston.

http://www.thestreet.com/print/story/10690697.html

 

TheStreet.com

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TheStreet.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSCM) is an American financial news and services website.

TheStreet.com, Inc. was co-founded in 1996 by Jim Cramer and Martin Peretz. It is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company is headquartered at 14 Wall Street in New York City.

Under the direction of Thomas J. Clarke, Jr., TheStreet.com's most recent former chairman and CEO, the company reported its first annual profit in 2005. Jim Cramer became chairman in October 2008.[1] Daryl Otte, a long-time company director, became CEO in May 2009 [2] after the abrupt resignation of the former CEO.[3] Otte is the founding partner of Montefiore Partners, a venture capital investment fund management firm, and a former executive at media company Ziff-Davis[4]

Beginning as a single web site, TheStreet.com has since expanded and now also publishes additional consumer Web sites such as MainStreet.com, Stockpickr, and Bankingmyway.com. In addition to news and financial analysis, TheStreet.com also provides subscription investor services such as RealMoney[5] and Action Alerts Plus.[6]

In 2007, TheStreet bought Stockpickr.com, [7] Rate Watch and BankingMyWay.[8] In 2008, TheStreet.com purchased a 13 percent stake in Geezeo.com, the Boston-based online management tool, with an option to purchase the company.[9]

TheStreet.com's most popular features include: Top 10 Stocks; Jim Cramer's Portfolios of the Week; The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week; Wednesday's Analysts' Upgrades and Downgrades, and Readers' Picks: The Street.com's Top 10. Dave Kansas helped build the news organization from its infancy in September 1996 and became editor-in-chief in April 1997. Kansas also opened a San Francisco bureau and also sat on the board of TheStreet.com.[10] In July 2001, David J. Morrow, a former New York Times reporter, joined TheStreet.com as its editor-in-chief upon Kansas's departure. Glenn Hall, a former news manager at Freedom Communications (The Orange County Register) and Bloomberg News, replaced Morrow in August 2009.[11] Chairman Jim Cramer remains one of the company's commentators.

While the TheStreet.com's most noteworthy personality is Jim Cramer, other contributors include Alix Steel, Adam Feuerstein, and Doug Kass. Investors have expressed concern for the company's heavy reliance on Jim Cramer according to investing columnist Henry Blodget.[12] Blodget argues TheStreet "has diversified in recent years, and there's plenty of talent aboard." Cramer promotes TheStreet.com on his TV show Mad Money and is one of the main contributors to TheStreet.com's paid subscription and free content.

On June 12, 2008, the Arizona Reporter Newswire alleged that TheStreet.com may have conflicts of interest relating to their subsidiary Promotions.com.[13]

The company launched free Blackberry, iPhone and Android mobile applications[14]. The Blackberry version was mentioned as "Official Honoree" for the Mobile Applications category of the 2009 Webby awards[15], got a honorable mention in the 2009 "Best of the Web" awards by Min online[16] and together with the iPhone version won the 2008 "Creative Use of Online" award by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW)[17].
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