News Round-up: 4th March 2010This week’s movers and shakers in the digital industry: Google and Tesco to sell houses? | Shazam launches audio recognition advertising | Yahoo tie-up with Twitter deepens | .xxx porn net domain plans revived | Kerrang | FindMeTV | Inbox DMG | ESPN | Motorcycling community GetOn | WebTrends | Rubicon Project | Yomego | Empire Magazine | toptable | Coremetrics | Stream 20 | Audience Science ...People in BusinessMark Hanson has been named executive director and chief executive officer of the Houston Symphony, effective May 1. E. Tyson Thomas has been promoted to vice president of Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam.Inertia Beverage Group Names Joseph Waechter as New CEOFormer DHL Worldwide CEO Brings Logistics Expertise to IBG -- The Wine Industry's Only Fully Integrated Direct-to-Market SolutionCovario Co-Founder Dema Zlotin to Speak at Omniture SummitSAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - March 1, 2010) - Covario , the leader in SEM, SEO and display software and agency services for Forbes Global 2000 companies, today announced that Dema Zlotin, co-founder and vice president of strategic services, will be speaking at the 2010 Omniture Summit in Salt Lake City, UT. On Wednesday, March 3, Zlotin will present at the session \"Best Practices for Managing a ...The Village may get another hotelWhen the Mondrian was a flash in a developer’s eye, it was a 189-room condo hotel, one of many ambitious projects in Mountain Village two years ago.Armed officers evacuate guests from Kendal hotelARMED police swooped on a Kendal town centre hotel after a member of the public reported seeing a man with a gun.Mandarin Oriental Full-Year Profit Rises 26% on Hotel Sale GainMarch 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. , an operator of luxury hotels from Tokyo to San Francisco, said profit rose 26 percent last year after it booked an $81 million gain from the sale of a Macau hotel.Priceline.com Becomes 1st Major Online Travel Agency to Offer $25 Bounty as Part of its 'Big Deal' Hotel Price GuaranteeNORWALK, Conn., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After leading other online travel agencies in eliminating airline booking fees and slashing hotel reservation fees, priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) is at it again.Prairie Meadows OKs terms for new hotelPrairie Meadows on Wednesday approved terms to build a 179-room hotel on the northwest side of the casino.Chicago's hotel bars disappointOnce upon a time, classic cocktails and classic hotel lounges went hand in hand, like gin and dry vermouth.Old hotel site to house recovering addictsThe former site of a seedy hotel on University Avenue will soon be a haven for recovering addicts. A nonprofit organization, with help from the city, purchased the former North Park Inn last year and plans to open housing for homeless men battling addiction and mental illness.
