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The following is an excerpt from Will Oremus | June 4, 2013 | Slate.com |
In a surprising development, the company that made FarmVille, Words With Friends, and a bunch of other Facebook games you don’t play anymore announced today that it is sparing 82 percent of its workforce—some 2,900 employees, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Alistair Barr | June 4, 2013 | reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOSH BOAK | June 4, 2013 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has seized on the latest trade deficit figures to crack down on China for currency manipulation.
The timing is difficult for President Obama, who is meetings at the end of this week with ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Bill Walton and Chris Abeyta | May 31, 2013 | Foxnews.com |
Success is different for everyone, but generally speaking there are common goals: a successful business or career, college for our children, and, of course, not outliving our assets in retirement. As entrepreneurs and ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Staff, Reuters | June 3, 2013 | msnbc.com |
Twitter was down for about a half-hour for an unknown number of users on Monday after a glitch during a "routine change."
The microblogging service said in a short post that it had rolled back the changes, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from rt.com | June 4, 2013 |
RT.com was temporarily disabled Monday for just under five hours by a DDoS attack. It coincided with RT.com's reporting on the trial of Bradley Manning and massive anti-government protests in Turkey, with coverage continuing uninterrupted on Twitter.
The attack, claimed ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Donald Perman | June 3, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Audio systems in high-performance cars, even those billed as “premium,” aren’t truly the kind of high-end sound systems that true music devotees are accustomed to in their homes.
That’s a problem for sophisticates expecting sound to match ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dave Smith | June 3, 2013 | ibtimes.com |
It’s been rumored for months that Apple has plans to release another iPhone model in addition to its true iPhone 5 successor (iPhone 5S), which would feature cheaper-made materials and less impressive specs to achieve a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Liz Capo McCormick, Lu Wang & and Claudia Carpenter | June 2, 2013 | Bloomberg.com |
Global bond markets posted their biggest monthly losses in nine years in May as the U.S. dollar rallied and stocks reached record highs amid speculation a strengthening U.S. economy ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Therese Poletti | May 28, 2013 | marketwatch.com |
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tim Cook is stepping back into the public limelight just as the Apple chief executive finds himself faced with a growing list of challenges that may tax even his considerable abilities — ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Liz Gannes | May 31, 2013 | allthingsd.com |
Worried about so-called “Glassholes” automatically identifying the faces of people around them? Google says it doesn’t want that to happen, either.
The company tonight posted an update to developer policies for its wearable device Google Glass that ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Michael Lemonick | May 30, 2013 | Time.com |
A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project.
But it would also be really, really ... Read More
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