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The following is an excerpt from STEPHEN F. HAYES | May 23, 2013 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved
As the investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matt Nesto | May 23, 2013 | Yahoo.com |
It didn't take much to bring beleaguered gold traders back from the brink. Jitters in Japan and fear over the Fed have stoked a reversal in gold that follows a seven month, 25% slump.
While the most ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jason Dearen | May 23, 2013 | Time.com |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world’s largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Soon it ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Steve Denning | May 23, 2013 | Forbes.com |
“Behind the label of any product is a deeper story about its social and environmental implications,” says the website of Gap GPS +0.78% Inc under the heading, Make A Difference. “Were the workers who made ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Brandon Griggs | May 22, 2013 | CNN.com |
(CNN) -- There's fresh evidence that American teenagers may be growing weary of Facebook.
They don't like the fact that their parents, grandparents and other adults are also there, diluting Facebook's "cool" factor. They complain about their ... Read More
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Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.
Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code using a text message ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Laura Matthews | May 20, 2013 | ibtimes.com |
The IRS scandal may not be bigger than Watergate, as some conservative commentators have suggested. But it's certainly going to keep the attention of the White House for some more time. Another round of congressional hearings ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Tiernan Ray | May 20, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer is holding court at 2 Times Square in New York, where the topic is “How we can make Flickr awesome again,” referring to the company’s photo-sharing service.
Mayer offered some brief remarks ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from John Roach | May 18, 2013 | msnbc.com |
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Alex Cuadros & Crayton Harrison | May 17, 2013 | Bloomberg.com |
The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high. It ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Peter Kafka | May 19, 2013 | allthingsd.com |
Super-charged growth? Yup. Fueled by user-generated content that comes with potential copyright headaches? Got it! Barely there revenues? Of course!
Billion-dollar-plus price tag? Check!
Yes, all of that describes the Yahoo-Tumblr deal. And it also describes Google’s move ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jonnelle Marte | May 14, 2013 | Smartmoney.com |
Emails are not private. A message may have one sender and one recipient but it can, with little effort, be read by a third party. In fact, despite the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unlawful searches, federal ... Read More
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