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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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Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet
Reuters © People visit the Microsoft booth at the 2013 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Pichi ...
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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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Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing
Coca-Cola.FM and live-streaming music events, Coca-Cola has shown the world how revolutionary they can be and how this type of marketing evokes emotional, long-lasting customer engagement. ...
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10 Steps To More Confidence At Work
Phase #1: Eliminating Self-doubtBuilding self-confidence is a two-phase process. The first phase involves purging yourself of self-doubt; in the second, you build up your confidence. It’s like erecting a skyscraper: First you clear the site and lay a solid foundation, then you stack the superstructure. How high you go--how much confidence you muster--is up to you. Here's a 10-step ...
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Yellen to Succeed Bernanke
Who might succeed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke? Former Fed Governor Larry Meyer of MacroEconomic Advisers says Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen is the most ...
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Obama Essentially Fired Bernanke Meyer
President Barack Obama "essentially fired" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in televised remarks this week, former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer ...
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To the end of the world
user-generated content . Nevertheless, there's always, inevitably, an end to the road. Naturally, sometimes this is because the land just plumb runs out. But there are a number of other reasons Google's cameras have not been able to proceed, from the natural to the man-made. The Atlantic's Alan Taylor took ...
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Facebook reportedly delays release of video ads
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is postponing the release of video advertisements that automatically play in News Feed, according to Ad Age. The social network wants to release the specialized units alongside new social-networking features and is now targeting an unofficial mid-October launch date, Ad ...
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Goodwill to open in La Jolla
The new store, at 7631 Girard Ave., is just under 1,600 square feet and will feature primarily clothing and accessories, with a smaller-than-average housewares section, said Sharon Corrigan, communications director for Goodwill Industries of San Diego ...
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RSF stock promoter charged with fraud
A Rancho Santa Fe stock promoter has been accused of fraudulently arranging the purchase of $2.5 million worth of shares in a penny stock in an effort to boost its ...
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Taco Bell to test Power Protein menu
NEW YORK -- Taco Bell plans to test a "Power Protein" menu as part of its push to provide choices for people looking to eat healthy.The chain says it will start testing the menu July 25 in Dayton, Ohio. The burritos and bowls will have more than 20 grams of protein and less than 450 calories.The test comes after the company announced in April that it would work to provide more ...
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After Hours Adobe rises La-Z-Boy flat after hours
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Adobe Systems Inc. and La-Z-Boy Inc. shares were in focus after hours Tuesday following an upbeat trading session that saw the major U.S. stock indexes put in solid ...
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CenturyLinkVoice Cloud Services Five Ways To Eat A Dinosaur
Cloud First " procurement policy may seem to businesses, we can't underestimate its testament to the culture shift taking place in IT organizations around the world, as it pertains to the cost savings and agility gains ...
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5 Methods For Setting Retirement Targets
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently reported that personal savings rates in the United States fell to an average of 2.3% in the first quarter of 2013. That's just the latest sign that millions of Americans are heading toward an impoverished old age. Why do people have so much trouble saving for retirement? One problem is that it is not easy to ...
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Where Should SEC Start A Fraud Crack Down Maybe Look At Fake Restatements
, Lying With Numbers: Is The SEC's Ponzi Crusade Enabling Companies To Cook The Books, Enron-Style? Trying to get a quote from SEC enforcement ...
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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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