The American Genius Staff Writers

Smartphones

Holding all of your iThings For those of you Apple fans that have an iPod, an iPad, an iPhone and more, and have jimmy...

Mortgage

Helping explain concepts to clients One core value of practicing real estate is knowing as much about the home buying and selling process as...

Browsers

New browsers out Recently, the next generation of Internet Explorer and Firefox have come out and any time a browser releases a new generation,...

Economic News

FHFA house price index The FHFA just announced a 0.3% decline in their house price index between December and January and a 3.9% dip...

A Google history When writers discuss the history of Google, we hear over and over about personnel changes, acquisitions and partnerships and less about...

Commercial Real Estate

LoopNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOOP), announced the launch of its expanded line of property research products, Property Facts and Property Comps. These new information services...

Social Media

Many Realtors don’t know what Reddit is, and even fewer use the site, but it has recently come under fire for server failure more...

Commercial Real Estate

Where is real estate? This month, CNN’s Fortune Magazine named the 2011 “World’s Most Admired Companies” listing the top 350 global contenders, and in...

Housing News

FDIC sues execs for $900M The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has named the former Washington Mutual CEO, Kerry Killinger, President of Home Lending,...

Social Media

Ode to the early days of Gmail One of the biggest appeals to early Gmail (first offered in early 2000s) was how minimalistic it...

Economic News

February is proving to be marking historic lows in the real estate sector. After reporting last week that in February, new home starts hit...

Economic News

The Minnesota Attorney General is confirming a series of fraud cases they are investigating and attempting to prosecute in their state along with almost...

Business Marketing

Last month, PlatinumHD.tv produced a single property video for Australian real estate brokerage NEO Properties which garnered quit a bit of international attention with...

Housing News

Today, real estate search site Trulia.com announced a partnership with RE/MAX to directly syndicate RE/MAX listings to Trulia’s search index. This announcement puts Trulia...

Tech News

Google Chrome has revealed their new logo which has the web developer bloggers yelping that the new logo is a big ugly number nine...

Smartphones

iPhone users rejoice, you can now voice record notes to yourself and send them directly to your Dropbox account. iPhones have a default Voice...

Smartphones

One of the biggest complaints about using smartphones is that the keyboard is restricting and you can’t use both hands as you would on...

Housing News

Google has announced a makeover for its blogging platform Blogger this week and continues making headlines in other divisions, most notably Google Docs and...

Social Media

Today, the highly anticipated Internet Explorer 9 officially launches out of beta and into the public. Some web users are incapable of being converted...

Social Media

Google staff at SXSWi today have noted they cannot reveal all of the makeover details, but Blogger is undergoing a major revamp to its...

Smartphones

If you’re wondering why every January you get bombarded with shiny new devices and every March you get bombarded with shiny new applications, you...

Housing News

A New York Communities for Change study points to failed HAMP results and claims JP Morgan Chase has refused to modify loans responsibly. “Affordable,...

Commercial Real Estate

Redbox has effectively put Blockbuster out of business and more automation is on the way. As retailers are losing their jobs and becoming automated,...

Housing News

Today, Move, Inc. has announced an exclusive partnership with Blockshopper.com to “power its real estate ads and expand the online reach of agents and...

Housing News

A new study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reveals that the housing crisis has altered the very course of consumer preferences...