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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s pay czar said Friday that 17 banks receiving taxpayer money from the $700 billion financial bailout made “ill-advised” payments to their executives. But he stopped short of calling them “contrary to the public interest,” language that would have signaled a fight to get it back. Kenneth Feinberg also said he did not try to recoup $1.6 billion in lavish compensation to top executives at the bailed-out banks because he wanted to protect the banks from possible lawsuits from shareholders trying to recapture the executives’ money.
Publisher acquires city-building franchise, readies new version for release next fall. Cities XL French developer Monte Cristo recently shut its doors , but not before selling the rights to its city-building franchise to an unspecified partner.
Apple TV owners can once again easily access Boxee content on their home cinema hardware. That’s right, the block that October’s 3.0 Apple TV firmware update implemented for those wanting to go down the simple USB install route has been lifted
OpenTable Seats 2 Million Diners Via Mobile Apps In less than six months, online restaurant reservation site OpenTable has seated an additional one million diners via its mobile apps. In late October, OpenTable had reached the milestone of seating one million diners via its mobile offerings, a year after its iPhone app launched. It took [...]