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H7N9 flu virus may be able to spread among people
Working with ferrets, the model for human transmission, the study found the potentially dangerous virus was transmitted by direct contact, but not efficiently through the air. Analyzing the viral gene sequence showed that the virus might have undergone mutations making it more easily transmissible in ...
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Late property tax notices to go out
The county will start to mail out more than 42,000 notices to taxpayers who have failed to pay their property taxes, said the San Diego County treasurer-tax collector's office on Thursday. The amount in unpaid taxes and late fees totals $94.1 ...
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Top 50 highest-paid CEOs
A look at the 50 highest-paid CEOs of 2012, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar.1. Leslie Moonves, CBS, $60.3 million, down 12 percent2. David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $49.9 million, down 5 percent 3. Bob Iger, Disney, $37.1 million, up 18 percent4. Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $33.4 million, down 22 percent5. John Donahoe, eBay, $29.7 million, up 81 percent6. Brian ...
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Fidelity 401 Balances Reach Record Highs
Photo credit: Wikipedia Have you checked your 401(k) balance lately? You might be in for a pleasant surprise. Average 401(k) balances reached record highs at the end of the first quarter, according ...
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You Suck Now Subscribe Why Bloombergs Shame-Based Millennial Ad Campaign Misses The Mark
Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife While shame-based conditioning might work when it comes to teaching your new rottweiler puppy not to go pee-pee on the hall rug, Bloomberg Businessweek is betting it will also help them recruit a new generation of subscribers. The business news titan ...
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CEOs are Terrible at Management Study Finds
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer: Is she listening to people inside her company? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) A new study shows that CEOs are doing a lousy job when it comes to people management. The study, a joint project by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance and The Miles ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Changes The Game For Electronic Arts
With much of the gaming world still focused on Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4, there's a brand new gaming device that is out right now. You don't have to wait until this fall to experience the next generation of mobile gaming on the Samsung Galaxy S4. There's a large library of games from top publishers, including Electronic Arts. And many game developers, ...
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BusinessAviationVoice Superfluous Luxury Or Tool For Growth
Photo: Honeywell Aerospace As representatives of business aviation organizations from around the world gathered for a forum at the European Business Aviation Convention (EBACE), the primary discussion hinged around the misconception of business aircraft as an unnecessary luxury versus an essential tool for corporate growth. While statistical evidence unquestionably confirms that businesses of ...
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St. Louis Social Media-Driven Saga of Larry Conners and KMOV
affiliate KMOV-TV, let's recap. After the news broke about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups during the 2012 election, Conners, the longtime KMOV anchor, hopped on his ...
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Deconstructing Googles Strategy Will Google Eat Your Business Next
Beliebers follow Justin?" I deadpanned. Unamused, he continued, "I think Google plans to get into our space. They could put us out of business." As I talked him down from a mild case of Googlephobia, I flashed back to a dozen similar conversations with executives and entrepreneurs. It's easy to get caught up ...
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Earliest Known Patek Philippe Grand Complication May Fetch $1.5M At Auction
Patek Philippe Grand Complication No. 97912 as the highlight of its New York Important Watches auction on June 11. It is estimated to fetch $1 to $1.5 million. This 18k pink gold openface watch is a minute repeating perpetual calendar split-seconds chronograph clockwatch with grande and petite sonnerie and moon phases, manufactured in 1898. It has never before seen in public and it is the first ...
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Apples Cook on Taxes Being an American Innovator Transcript of Senate Testimony
released transcripts of the statements made by CEO Tim Cook before a U.S. Senate subcommittee earlier this week, during which the bi-partisan group accused the tech giant of stashing its cash overseas in order to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Cook, joined by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and the company's tax chief Phillip Bullock, countered those claims by saying the maker ...
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Troubled Visa Settlement Takes Another Hit As Retailers File Own Suit
Can't live with 'em(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) A $7 billion antitrust settlement over credit-card processing fees that critics say would make things worse for retailers suffered another insult today ...
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Microsoft Introduces the Surface Tablet
The new Microsoft Surface tablet on display following a press conference at Pier 57 to officially launch Windows 8 and the tablet in New York on October 25, ...
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Interviewing With A Friend 5 Rules To Follow
As if interviewing isn't awkward enough, imagine what it's like to run through the typical 20 questions with a good friend. She asks, "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"--because she has to. You answer with your pre-rehearsed response--because you have to. Both of you know that the real answer is: ...
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Can Microsofts Kinect finally deliver for gamers
original Kinect and promised next-level gaming free of controllers. What happened? It turned out that the Kinect hardware wasn't quite as advanced as we ...
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Is bond bubble losing air
amount of bonds the Fed buys each month within "a few meetings," while minutes from the Fed's latest policy meeting showed that some central bank members were willing to dial down the Fed's bond-buying program as soon as June. "We can call Bernanke the Hamlet Fed chairman," said Jonathan Lewis, chief investment officer at Samson Capital Advisors. "He is ...
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McDonalds gives Charles Ramsey free food for a year
The big burger gift comes after Ramsey repeated, in interview after interview, that he had gone to McDonald's before rescuing the women and rushed to their aid carrying ...
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EU plans $6.4 billion effort to boost chip manufacturing
The European Commission is spending 5 billion euros to coordinate and advance the processor industry in Europe. The goal: a fifth of worldwide ...
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Pad this Apple Microsoft blasts iPad yet again in new ad
After getting Siri to do its critical work, Microsoft releases another ad comparing the iPad and Windows 8 tablet. Guess which comes out looking ...
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London police arrest 2 more over soldier’s murder
LONDON (MarketWatch) --Police here late Thursday said they have arrested two more individuals as part of an investigation into Wednesday's brutal murder of a British soldier near an army ...
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3 senior SAC executives receive subpoenas
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Three senior executives at SAC Capital Advisors LP, including the firm's president and chief compliance officer, received subpoenas as part of the government's insider-trading investigation, according to people familiar with the ...
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Missing the Xserve Sonnet has a rack-mounted answer
Apple's Xserve computers were a rack-mountable line of Macintosh systems designed for enterprise use; however, in 2011 Apple abandoned the project, leaving only its Mac Pro and Mac Mini with available server options. Though anyone can download the OS X Server tools from the Mac App Store and convert any current Mac into a server system, some may wish to get a rack-mounted setup going ...
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Search is on for lost first draft of first Web page
(Credit: CERN) The first draft of the World Wide Web has gone missing, with perhaps one of the only copies of the very first Web site floating around the world's drawers or attics on a floppy disk ...
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Apples WWDC keynote scheduled for June 10
Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off on June 10, the first day of the week-long conference. This is typically when the keynote occurs, with the rest of the week consisting of sessions for developers, along with events held at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and other parts of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where WWDC is taking ...
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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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