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Dell special committee slams new Icahn plan as incomplete
Committee says activist investor's latest proposal lacks adequate financing and a remedy for the company and its shareholders if his proposal were to ...
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Video shows what looks like iOS 7 running on an iPad
iOS 7 , but photos, videos, and reports are popping up left and right about what the new operating system will look like on the tablet. A new iPad iOS ...
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Quake studies cut short by nuke shutdown
The operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is likely to scale back a robust slate of earthquake studies as it moves forward with retiring the coastal power ...
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SEC to require mea culpas in some big settlements
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission says the agency will start requiring companies and individuals to admit wrongdoing in some big settlements.Currently the SEC allows companies and individuals to settle charges without admitting or denying wrongdoing. Critics, including a federal judge, have complained that policy doesn't deter repeat violations.Mary Jo ...
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Al Capones Final Home Sells
One of America's most notorious gangsters didn't go down in a gunfight, but died of heart failure in a luxe Miami Beach mansion. Al Capone's last years were spent at the Palm Island residence in relative anonymity. It's where he decided to retire and reportedly where he planned his final Chicago event: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The home served as his alibi. ...
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Sold Arnold Schwarzeneggers Former Home And Place Of Affair
Some homes have a tough time shaking their reputation, especially if they're reputation is tied to a highly publicized scandal. Take, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger's former Pacific Palisades home, which was listed in 2011 but didn't snag a buyer until just recently. Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver lived in the house from 1986 to 2003, according to ...
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A Return To 10 Percent Down Payments
After virtually disappearing for years, the 10 percent down payment is back. Around the U.S., some lenders are offering 90 percent financing again on all loan types. For example, San Francisco-based RPM Mortgage resumed offering "piggyback" loans in the first quarter of 2013 after discontinuing them during the height of the credit crisis in late 2007, according to Vice President ...
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Google Reviews More Prominent With Official Knowledge Graph Update
While these new results are at their most visually-compelling on the desktop (for now), the results are mirrored on mobile devices. They do not look the exact same, but when I compared the results on the iPhone 5, iPad 2, and Samsung S3, the results were very similar and highlighted most of the same results in a Maps/Places "box." Some pundits have argued this is a move toward ...
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The Six Steps To Trust
Many people have been given the feedback, "Others do not trust you." Most people, hearing this, are perplexed as to what they might do to change. One leader actually asked me, only half joking, if it would help if he wore a sign on his back that says, "JUST TRUST ME!" The dictionary description of trust is "the belief that someone is being truthful." If people have ...
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud
IDG News Service - Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service. The launch, announced Tuesday, gives customers another option for cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) services besides NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign and others. It's a bit late in coming, ...
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Chinas fastest-growing cities for multi-millionaires
The population of multi-millionaires in no-name Chinese cities is growing at a breakneck pace. Case in point: Chongqing's multi-millionaire population grew by nearly 80% between 2007 and ...
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Immigration bill could cut deficits by $175 billion - CBO
A bipartisan Senate bill that would create a path to legal status for many of the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could reduce deficits by $175 billion over the first 10 years and by at least $700 billion in the second ...
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Thomas Jackson Judge who tried to split up Microsoft
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who died of cancer on 16 June at the age of 76, was a federal judge in Washington who presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and ordered the software giant to be split up. He also presided over the the drug possession trial of the former Mayor of Washington, Marion ...
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USD FOMC Scenarios Changes in US Economy
USD: FOMC Scenarios, Changes in US Economy The Federal Reserve will be making one of its special quarterly monetary policy announcements on Wednesday and based on the price action of the currency, equity and bond markets, there is very little consensus on what is expected from the central bank. While no one expects the Fed to cut interest rates or alter its asset purchase program this week, ...
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Five setup tips for Apples new MacBook Air
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) For the past couple of months, prospective MacBook buyers, especially those looking for a slim MacBook Air, have been holding off on purchases, waiting to see what Apple had in store for ...
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Facebook looking to partner with Samsung
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's whirlwind Asia tour, he stopped by the offices of Samsung this week for a quick meeting with the company's president, Shin Jong Kyun. After the meeting, Shin stopped to talk to reporters and said that the two discussed potential partnerships, according ...
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Blue expands to Hulu too spreading beyond YouTube
The popular Fox-backed YouTube channel WIGS expands for broader appeal, and Google's video site is happy to be a launching pad sending sophisticated content -- and ad dollars -- ...
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Angelina Jolies stunt double sues News Corp. for alleged hacking
Eunice Huthart, Jolie's body double in "Tomb Raider 2," claims that News Corp. hacked her phone and wrote stories based on information gleaned from her voice mails. This is the first U.S. claim in the hacking ...
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Nvidia to license its graphics technology to device makers
The chipmaker says its GPU technology could show up in other companies' processors for everything from smartphones to supercomputers in a couple ...
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Ad Agency As Incubator Young And Rubicons Spark Plug Program Turns One
David Sable, CEO of Young & Rubicon and Creator of Spark Plug (photo courtesy of Young & Rubicon) I spoke this week with David Sable, Global CEO of Young & Rubicon, in New York, about Y&R Spark Plug incubator program, his personal brainchild, launched a year ...
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6 Key Marketing Dos and Donts For Your Startup
Image via UniversalWeather.com Marketing is everything these days. You can have the best technology, but if customers don't know you exist, or they don't know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate ...
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The 10 Best Cities For Young Entrepreneurs
NerdWallet tallied the top metro areas by population to determine this (surprising!) list of the best cities for young founders. With an equal weighting of loan data, cost of living, business activity, education and income, they’ve crunched the numbers to tally an overall score for 42 major cities. These 10 came out on top—and (shocklingly!) the Alley and the Valley are nowhere to be ...
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UPSVoice How To Become A Carbon Neutral Business
It seems like there are as many ways for a business to "go green" as there are businesses themselves. From sourcing organic products to electric delivery vehicles, one change can make a business green to a certain degree, but how can you ever know exactly how environmentally sustainable your business really is? When are you truly green? Striving to be carbon neutral is one way to ...
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Best And Worst Balancing Acts In Hollywood Film And TV Production History
franchises and other hits, made waves this week with a major executive hire. The company, launched more than a decade ago by Thomas Tull, is bringing longtime Warner Bros. television chief Bruce Rosenblum in to steer Legendary's push into TV and digital production. (An interesting video interview with Tull about his approach to the movie business is posted ...
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Review World War Z Lacks Bite
Box Office Take: Quality aside (read the actual review for that verdict), the film is in trouble mostly because of its budget. Ironically, had the film come in at its original $125 million price tag, Paramount and company would have been fine. Brad Pitt is of course a big draw here and especially overseas, so it's not impossible to presume that a 3D zombie action film starring Brad Pitt ...
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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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