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Makers Quarter Next It place
Makers Quarter, south of City College, might include this 400-foot-high-residential tower, mid- and low-rise offices and retail and cultural space surrounding the planned East Village Green ...
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San Diego Gymnastics opens in Otay Ranch Town Center
The new addition is just one of the many creative ways Otay Ranch Town Center has come up with to keep traffic coming to the mall during a difficult time for the retail ...
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Popular bayfront shuttle returns
San Diego's downtown-bayfront shuttle, which debuted last year, is returning for the summer season, beginning on Friday, in time for the Memorial Day ...
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What if mortgage rates shoot up
Peter McNamara and his 5-year-old daughter Keira look at a model home at a Pardee Homes' Watermark community near Carmel Valley on a recent Sunday. Record-low mortgage rates are helping drive up homebuyer ...
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Market Snapshot U.S. stocks slump weekly streak in jeopardy
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks traded firmly in the red Friday after another volatile session for Asian markets, with upbeat durable-goods data failing to overcome negative sentiment. Concerns about a potential tapering in the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program ...
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Tech Stocks Salesforce.com Google hit tech stocks
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A sharp drop at Salesforce.com sparked a slump across the stocks of other corporate software vendors and led the broader tech sector into the red on Friday ...
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Indian Billionaire Brothers Prepare To Fight Daiichi Sankyo
and the Indian billionaire brothers Malvinder and Shivinder Singh. The seeds of the dispute relate to the $4.6 billion acquisition in 2008 by Daiichi of a controlling interest in Ranbaxy Laboratories, a listed generics maker, from the Singhs. At the time, the deal concluded at a hefty premium to the then market price, was touted as the biggest buyout of any Indian company and was expected to ...
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Will We Ever Have Star Trek-Style Spacesuits For Our Astronauts
is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She worked for NASA to design the next generation of space suits. They were actually surprisingly lightweight and mobile. With some color changes they would not look so different from the suits in the new Star Trek movie. Sadly, this is one of many projects that NASA started ...
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Nuance Stumbles But Has Supporters
Nuance is a leading provider of speech recognition technology and voice interface software that enable the information and services of enterprises, telecommunications networks and the Internet to be accessed from any telephone. You find its technology everywhere from corporate call centers to consumer ...
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Hedge Fund Passport Capitals Top Five Purchases YHOO YELP BUD GDI MHFI
John Burbank , leader of hedge fund Passport Capital, is decisively bearish on global growth, as he expressed in a CNBC interview at the SALT conference May 9. In his expected scenario, he ...
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How Can One Recover From Being Fired
James Altucher, Author & Investor Getting fired is scary. Having no money is scary. I've been fired many times. Sometimes, I've been a bad employee. Sometimes, I've had a boss. Either way, terror would strike in the middle of the night. I would pace at three in the morning. "I'm going to lose this house. My kids are going to switch schools. I have three months to ...
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Surrounded By Scandal A Shocked Rajasthan Royals Wades Into the IPL Semi-Final
Rahul Dravid BRC 2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As the Rajasthan Royals face off against the Mumbai Indians Friday in the semi-final game of the Indian Premier League, some members in the audience are rooting for this under dog team, sometimes referred to as the Moneyball team. It's been a rough few days for the team since three of its bowlers ...
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Trump Beats Rap From 87-Year-Old Granny
Donald Trump . And she lost. Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a bait-and-switch scheme connected to condos in a Chicago skyscraper he built. The federal jury in Chicago returned Thursday with a finding in Trump's favor after deliberating for more than five hours over two ...
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Keeping Watch for a Too-Strong Economy
Fed's Bullard Wants Faster Inflation Before Tapering QE ) "We're at the home stretch and that's why this vacuum between now and the nonfarm payrolls is going to be a dripless market for bonds and equities," said George Goncalves, Treasury strategist at Nomura Americas. "The assumption is things are going to get better. What if it's a weak number? Can we ...
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Where your donation dollars go
As you watch the horrific aftermath of the tornado in Oklahoma play out on television and reach into your wallet to make a donation, do you know where that money is actually ...
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Fortune Brainstorm Podcast Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman
Each Fortune conference -- from Brainstorm Green, Brainstorm Tech, to the Most Powerful Women Summit, and the Global Forum -- yields fascinating conversations with the best and brightest minds in ...
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Tornado loss estimate $2 billion to $5 billion
The string of tornadoes that ripped across the central United States in the past week did between $2 billion and $5 billion in damage, according to an initial estimate from Eqecat, a catastrophe risk ...
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Verizon Cloud adds online storage for iOS devices
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) iPhone and iPad owners can now use Verizon Cloud to back up key information from their devices. ...
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ATTs GoPhone prepaid service adds 4G support
(Credit: Screenshot by CNET) iPhone owners will finally be able to tap into all the benefits of AT&T's prepaid GoPhone plan. As of Friday, GoPhone customers ...
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Apples iOS 7 overhaul said taking a black-and-white tack
The textures and look and feel that iOS users are accustomed to are being tossed out for a "black, white, and flat all over" design, reports ...
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90 Days to Great Leadership
While I've achieved a lot of success as an entrepreneur and business owner, I was not born a great leader. Rather, I've learned leadership skills and every day, I put them to use. My status as a leader isn't a pass/fail thing. Instead, the actions I take every day, week, and month are what make me either a great leader, or a not-so-great leader. Great leadership comes from a ...
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Microsoft And Game Publishers Will Reportedly Take A Cut Of Xbox One Used Game Sales
Microsoft (MSFT) has taken aim at used game sales in a somewhat surprising way. For Xbox One games, used game sales will be allowed but any retailer who chooses to sell them will need to use Microsoft's Azure-based cloud system to do ...
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Walt Disney Imagineers Drive Innovation Through Video Game Technology
Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks are open for a full 24 hours today to celebrate Memorial Day weekend and the official start of the summer tourist seasons. As visitors enter these parks, they'll find a lot of new rides and attractions. Many of the innovations behind today's high-tech experiences come from inspiration from ...
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Google May Follow Apple on Tax-Dodging Dividend
AAPL ) in paying out a dividend, amid increasing scrutiny from the public on how both companies manage their mounting cash in low-tax countries like Ireland. Like Apple, however, Google may wait until its bank account swells to about $100 billion, according to an industry analyst, before making a big move on a dividend. The web search titan may also finance dividends or share buybacks to avoid ...
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Air Force One Percent Has Landed - Americas Top Private Jet Hotspots
Flightaware , an online tool for tracking flights shows a list of arrivals at the airport and a map of planes as they make their approach. Julia Roche ...
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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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