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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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Storage Survey The File Frontier
Digital media production is a major driver of digital storage demand. Creating content requires considerable storage and bandwidth for every aspect of media workflow and digital media content is getting bigger. Media creation, post-production, delivery and archiving are using an amazing array of advanced digital storage technologies and the size of media files is increasing. For movie ...
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John HancockVoice Startup Turns Followers Into Funding -- For More Than Just One Project
BrandVoice ™ allows marketers to connect directly with the Forbes audience by enabling them to create content - and participate in the conversation - on the Forbes digital publishing platform. ...
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For What Its Worth -- 6 Pieces Of Advice From A Hardcore Pawnbroker
Les Gold My longtime friend Les Gold has always been hardcore. He runs an enormous pawn shop in the heart of Detroit, buying and selling anything and everything to a slew of eager customers. On any given day, he's dealing in custom jewelry, taxidermy, sailboats, and television sets - and he's doing it alongside his children Ashley and Seth. A couple of years ago, their world got even ...
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Google files First Amendment court case against NSA surveillance secrecy
The petition comes less than two weeks after The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed a National Security Agency surveillance program known as Prism. Leaked documents said the NSA has been monitoring data from nine major U.S. companies, including ...
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Tech Stocks H-P Intel boost Dow Facebook rises
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks were modestly higher Tuesday, lifted by gains in shares of Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and Facebook ...
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NewsWatch How to trade the Federal Reserve decision
The main question hanging over financial markets right now is when and how the Federal Open Market Committee may change its monetary policy in coming months. That's why Wednesday is shaping up to be a big markets day and MarketWatch reporters analyzed how various asset classes may react depending on the message the Fed sends to the financial ...
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Google cites 1st Amendment in transparency push
+1.62% on Tuesday petitioned a court to let it publish separately national security government user-data requests, citing its rights under the First Amendment. The move expands on Google's earlier request to publish government data requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as part of its regular transparency report. "Greater transparency is needed," Google said in a ...
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Microsoft Makes A Few Advertising Announcements At Cannes Lions
Microsoft has some advertising news today out of Cannes Lions. Last year at Cannes, Microsoft Advertising’s Yarn announced it would be working in partnership with creative agencies and brands on some new ad experiences. Today, they announced a new wave of prototypes they developed with agencies like BMB, Razorfish, Rooster Worldwide, UM, and VML and brands like All Saints clothing, ...
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Adobe beats analyst profit expectations mulls subscription changes
The company's Creative Cloud subscriber base grew to 700,000 in the second quarter, but Adobe is considering other options to woo those who don't like the monthly payment ...
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Google challenges DOJs surveillance gag order
Search company asks to clear its name by arguing it has the First Amendment right to reveal how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders it receives from the U.S. ...
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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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