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The following is an excerpt from Chenda Ngak | May 17, 2012 | cbsnews.com |
(CBS News) Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday plans to drop their $30-a-month unlimited data plan for a tiered data model for customers who want to upgrade from the 3G network to 4G LTE.
Fran Shammo, Verizon Communications chief ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from David Weigel | May 15, 2012 | Slate.com |
The founders of Americans Elect had a dream: A 50-state presidential campaign that would upend, smash, destroy the two-party system. Today, these founders admitted that it wouldn’t work. No presidential candidate had survived the first round ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Omar L. Gallaga | May 17, 2012 | CNN.com |
(CNN) -- Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from BENEDICT CAREY | May 16, 2012 | nytimes.com |
Two people who are virtually paralyzed from the neck down have learned to manipulate a robotic arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach out and grab objects. One of them, a woman, was able ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Foxnews.com | May 10, 2012 |
U.S. forces completed the successful test of a next-generation defense system, by knocking out an incoming ballistic missile near Hawaii on Wednesday.
The Navy’s interceptor program is designed to protect the U.S. and its allies from potential missile attacks from ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from MICHAEL J. CASEY | May 10, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
To volatility-loving currency traders, the euro has been a source of great frustration, its trade versus the dollar hewing to a boring range of 4 cents for almost four months.
For that they can blame an ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Roland Li | May 14, 2012 | IBT.com |
Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY), the troubled electronics retailer, said Monday founder Richard Schulze was resigning as chairman and would be replaced by director Hatim Tyabji, after Schulze didn't tell the board that former CEO Brian ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Alistair Barr | May 14, 2012 | Reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Groupon Inc posted its first quarterly profit by reining in marketing spending and signing up more customers and merchants, sending its stock about 18 percent higher.
The fledgling company started by music graduate Andrew Mason, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dylan Stableford | May 13, 2012 | abcnews.com |
It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president."
The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JUDY LIN | May 12, 2012 | msnbc.com |
California's budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion — much larger than had been predicted just months ago — and will force severe cuts to schools and public safety if voters fail to approve ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from TIERNAN RAY | May 12, 2012 | Barrons.com |
How LTE could help Verizon and AT&T, hurt Sprint-Nextel.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that we'll see the end of the traditional phone company over the course of the next several ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Rick Aristotle Munarriz | May 11, 2012 | dailyfinance.com |
Tesla Motors (TSLA) has some good news for fans of the American maker of electric cars. Tesla's Model S -- the company's first reasonably priced vehicle -- may hit the streets as early as next ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Tax Report | May 11, 2012 | WSJ.com |
Investors are focusing on Facebook's FB 0.00% offering price as the company prepares to go public as soon as next week.
Tax specialists are paying attention to something else: how half a dozen of the firm's luminaries, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JULIE HALPERT | May 10, 2012 | TheFiscalTimes.com |
John T. Rogers, age 26, grew up in rural West Texas, raised by a single mother who often worked three jobs to make ends meet. He says his 59-year-old mother remains fiscally conservative, refusing to spend ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from NICK WINGFIELD | May 10, 2012 | Nytimes.com |
BELLEVUE, Wash. — When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small stake in ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Parmy Olson | May 11, 2012 | Forbes.com |
The four men charged with taking part in cyber attacks under hacking group LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, appeared in court Friday afternoon, appearing side-by-side for first time before a judge. British prosecutors allege that ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ELLIOTT ABRAMS | May 9, 2012 | weeklystandard.com |
The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Then there is Barack Obama.
In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Keith Wagstaff | May 11, 2012 | Time.com |
It looks like we might finally have some solid intel on Apple’s iTV and not from some anonymous “people with familiar with the matter.” This news appears to come directly from Foxconn chief Terry Gou, the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Danielle Venton | May 11, 2012 | Wired.com |
The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare-earth powerhouse of ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jill Schlesinger | May 10, 2012 | moneywatch.com |
(MoneyWatch) A "flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored" derivatives trading strategy has cost JPMorgan Chase (JPM) $2 billion in the past six weeks and the bank could face an additional $1 billion of ... Read More
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