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Get Leawo Tunes Cleaner for free
Leawo Tunes Cleaner (PC/Mac) absolutely free . There's a slightly obnoxious catch, but ultimately it's no big deal. True to its name, Tunes Cleaner aims to clean up ...
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Feedly upgrades site to prep for Google Readers demise
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Feedly has completed the next wave of its Web site upgrades designed to ease the transition for Google Reader users. Existing Feedly users and those migrating ...
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Rdios Vdio service now open to everyone in U.S. U.K.
Rdio launched Vdio in April as a competitor to similar services from Apple and Amazon. The offering lets users buy, rent, and share movies and television shows with others in real time. In addition to Web-based viewing, Vdio lets users access its programming from ...
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Boeing shows off its Dreamliner in Paris touts 787-10 deals
Right after Airbus takes its rival A350 XWB on its first flight, Boeing announces customers planning to buy 102 newer, longer versions of its energy-efficient 787 ...
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General Motors leads J.D. Power initial quality survey
By Bernie Woodall DETROIT, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:00pm EDT DETROIT, June 19 (Reuters) - General Motors Co. vehicles won eight awards in the annual J.D. Power & Associates survey of initial quality, a marked improvement since the largest American automaker turned itself around after a 2009 bankruptcy. GM cars and trucks won eight top prizes as the best vehicles in their segments ...
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Top Stocks Of John Paulsons Recovery Fund Up 27
John Paulson made billions on the implosion of the housing market in 2007, and is now setting up to profit from its recovery. In fact, his Paulson Recovery Fund has already returned 27% year to date, buoyed by a nascent housing recovery. Some of the larger positions in Paulson's $1.9 billion Recovery Fund include housing and mortgage-related companies MGIC Investment Corporation ...
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Hot Clothing Retailer Ralph Lauren Not Hot Enough
, Chaps and Club Monaco. The company operates 388 stores itself, including 116 Ralph Lauren stores, 59 Club Monaco stores and 213 Polo factory stores and has international licensing partners to operate stores overseas. Ralph Lauren Beat in the Fiscal Fourth Quarter of 2013 On May 23, Ralph Lauren reported fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2013 results. and beat the Zacks Consensus once ...
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Getting the most out of your HDTV
Whether you bought a new TV last week, last month, or last year, chances are it can look better than it does. All it takes is a few simple tweaks, a menu setting adjustment or two, and unleash its full potential. OK, "unleash its full potential" is a little over the top, but seriously, it's easy and worth it to get the most out of your ...
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To Connect With Customers One Company Thinks It Has All The Answers
Intercom is gearing up to take its marketing and customer connection tools to mobile after raising $6 million in an A-round of financing. The Social+Capital Partnership led the round, which will largely go to building out the company's mobile strength. Intercom's latest round of capital comes from The Social+Capital Partnership, with participation from Freestyle Capital and David ...
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Supreme Courts Final Decisions Also A Verdict On SG Verrilli
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli The U.S. Supreme Court will release its most significant and divisive decisions -- on affirmative action, gay rights and the Voting Rights Act -- possibly tomorrow and almost certainly by the end of this month. Two of the three will likely be defeats for U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who has endured a rough year before the high court including rare ...
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Octopus Pants - A Win for Ralph Lauren
ARDMORE, PA - JUNE 16: Billy Horschel of the United States hits his tee shot on the fifth hole during the final round of the 113th U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club on June 16, 2013 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) If you're not a golfer, you may not understand the title. But it is important. Sunday was the final, of four days, ...
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Elon Musk Apologizes To Customers For Teslas First Recall
Elon Musk announced the recall himself on the company blog -- and apologized for the inconvenience to customers. (Now think for a second: when was the last time an auto company CEO apologized for a recall on the day it happened? Or without being under duress?) The company disclosed that a bracket keeping the left hand back seat in place might come loose, according to details ...
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Google Perches Above $900 Netflix Back To Almost 80 Of 2001 Peak
Image via CrunchBase On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was able to break higher out of a wedge pattern and break a downtrend that has been in place since May 22. The index broke above the 1642-1648 level and now the question is whether we will extend above it. The next resistance level to watch is 1658-1662 and then 1674, with the intraday high at 1687. Fed days are often tricky as you sometimes ...
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Are expensive headphones worth it
$30 . Since nearly everyone has a mobile device now, headphones have become big business. From a few dollars to thousands of dollars, there's a style, brand, form, celeb endorsement, and/or color to match your interest. But are expensive headphones worth ...
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Microsoft touts Windows 8 apps momentum heading into Build
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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Apple TV adds HBO Go and WatchESPN
HBO Go includes on-demand access to all of the premium channel's shows, movies, comedy specials and other content. The WatchESPN app features live sports events as well as on-demand video ...
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Google Fiber spawns startup renaissance in Kansas City
Google's super-fast Internet service launched a year ago in Kansas City. CNET's Marguerite Reardon takes a look at the impact it has on the local startup ...
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Steve Jobs expected to be forgotten by history
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) In 1994, while at Next, Steve Jobs gave a 20-minute interview to the Silicon Valley Historical Association (SVHA) in which he spoke about his legacy. Interestingly, at that point, he expected that he and his accomplishments would be more or less forgotten within a few decades. A clip from that interview has just been posted to YouTube for the first ...
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ESPN HBO come to Apple TV
Apple TV is getting live sports and "Game of Thrones" beamed straight to its box, as Apple announces Time Warner's HBO Go and Disney's WatchESPN are available directly now. But confounding would-be cord cutters, most of the content appears limited to people ...
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Vevo tunes up app for Windows 8
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Windows 8 and RT users can now check out their favorite artists and music videos via the new Vevo app. Debuting in the Windows Store on ...
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At the open TSX dips ahead of Federal Reserve policy statement
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke is seen on a monitor via teleconference in Chicago, May 10, 2012. Market players will be watching intently this week for clues that the Fed is about to begin scaling back its huge monetary stimulus, a key support of stock and bond prices. (JIM ...
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Tech Stocks Adobe rises but Apple Microsoft slip
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. jumped Wednesday, but the tech sector was weighed down by sliding shares of Apple Inc. and Microsoft ...
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Geek-Favorite Electronics Retailer Newegg Hatches New Billionaire On Rising Sales
The United States' second-largest online-only retailer is relatively inconspicuous on the Web. With a basic website and little brand recognition outside of a loyal community of online gamers and computer hardware aficionados, Newegg operates quietly out of California's City of Industry, selling electronic goods under tag lines like "Shell Shocker" and "Eggxtra! ...
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Online retailer Newegg preps its warehouse for holiday sales
This time of year, the online retailer's Northeast facility is always bustling. Boxes whiz by on one of 25 conveyor belts and the cavernous space is filled with the low hum of ...
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Abraham Lincoln Was The Anti-Obama A Profit Loving Capitalist Tool
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Weighing the economics of Abraham Lincoln isn't easy to do in today's terms. Lincoln was pro-subsidy and pro-tariff, both of which stances tend to be assigned to the interventionist left in today's discussions. But Lincoln's infrastructurally and financially primitive economy was not ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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