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Twitter amps up program to display videos in your timeline
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Twitter users may see more videos start to pop up in their timelines. The microblogging site has already worked with companies to display videos in their tweets. ESPN and Ford Fusion teamed up to show instant replays in tweets during college football games. Turner Sports, the NCAA, AT&T, and Coke Zero united to tweet real-time video highlights ...
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New antibody technology discovers drugs rapidly
The technology rapidly finds antibodies that can perform a variety of cellular functions, such as stimulating the growth of blood cells, modifying stem cells or imitating hormones. These are things antibodies don't normally do. In nature; these large protein molecules are made by certain white blood cells to fight invading ...
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Microsoft mouse gets Windows 8 Start button
In the meantime the company is releasing a new computer mouse with a dedicated ';Start'; button, just behindits scroll wheel. The blue Windows button on the Sculpt Mobile Mouse launches the tiled home screen of Windows 8, which the company calls the ';Start screen.'; Used withWindows 7, the button launches the traditional ';Start'; menu. Presumablyit may be ...
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Gary Keller How To Find Your One Thing
Keller Williams Realty, Inc. , one of the largest real estate companies in the world. He is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and finalist for Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year. He has helped many small business owners and entrepreneurs find success through four nationally bestselling ...
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Lyft Raises $60 Million As Ride Sharing Competition Heats Up
Lyft has raised $60 million in Series C financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding, designed to accelerate growth, ups the ante against other competitors such as Sidecar and Uber that are each trying to grab a piece of the quickly ...
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Holiday Weekends -- and why they matter to your business
PYRAMID LAKE BEACH ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND - NARA - 553133 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This Monday, our nation collectively pauses to honor the memory of fallen soldiers. Schools close, mail isn't delivered, and government offices lock their doors for the day. Do you shut down and recharge your batteries? If not, you should. It sounds counter-intuitive at first, especially to someone ...
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Laurence Tureauds Enduring Brand
Laurence Tureaud turned 61. You know him. Everyone knows him. Let me refresh your memory: First name, Mr; Middle name, period; Last name, T. The artist formerly known as Tureaud is of course Mr. T, and during this week of his birth, let's reflect on the endurance of his brand over the last quarter ...
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How the Hidden Structures of Competition Drive Your Companys Strategic Decisions
In our behaviour and beliefs, we are influenced by various hidden structures and characteristics of the people surrounding us. Over the past decades, for example, hundreds of studies on social networks and "small worlds" have shown that with whom you have had prior relationships, and how these people relate to each other, influences the information we receive, how much personal power ...
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Craigslists Anti-Consumer Lawsuit Threatens to Break Internet Law
Craigslist takes steps that aren't clearly in their users' interests -especially when Craigslist initiates a lawsuit (as opposed to defending lawsuits brought against it). ...
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3 Reasons To Avoid Panic Selling
Wednesday was one of the widest ranging days since the middle of April with a 277 point range in the Dow Industrials and 41 points in the S&P 500. The overnight selling in Asia was exacerbated by a drop in preliminary readings on Chinese manufacturing. The European markets are also down sharply with the German DAX Index down 2.6% in early trading and the US futures are sharply lower ahead ...
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Newly Insured Good Luck Finding Healthcare
This October, millions of Americans will have the opportunity-nay, the legal obligation-to sign up for health insurance. And beginning Jan. 1, where will the newly insured go to get their healthcare? According to a new survey of slightly more than 5,000 physicians, not to them. Or more precisely, almost half said they would not be able to accept newly insured patients. The impact of the ...
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The 3 Pillars of SEO in 2013 Content Links and Social Media
A good SEO strategy is the difference between your business easily being found online and getting lost in the noise of thousands of other businesses trying to stand out. With Google's ever-changing algorithm, it can be difficult to know what's effective here and now. In 2013, success in SEO hinges on businesses putting together a robust combination strategy that brings together an ...
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Update The Bathroom With Living Room Furnishes
Just because the bathroom is utilitarian, doesn't mean it should be lacking in style. More and more, homeowners are furnishing the bath, doing more than just buying towels and a shower curtain. The result is a stylish space more like the living room than ...
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Finding Income In A Zero Rate Environment
The Federal Reserve seems to be the enemy of savers and the enabler of a government addicted to debt. Its zero-interest-rate policy accommodates deficit spending at the expense of people who want to put their money somewhere safe and collect a decent income stream. These days you need to take on risk if you want respectable yields, a fact probably not lost on Fed ...
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Golden Seeder How Angel Audrey MacLean Invests Like An Entrepreneur
Internet ," says MacLean, who, at 61, is one of the nation's most seasoned, well-connected and successful angel investors. That's consistent with the view she's held for at least 15 ...
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The Warning Signs Ahead of Nikkei Selloff
A perfect storm of yen strength, a spike in Japanese government bond yields and new evidence of weakness in China's economy sparked a major sell-off in Japan's equity markets on ...
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Amazons Kindle Worlds lets fan fiction writers sell their stories
Fan fiction, in which aficionados of existing books and movies write characters into new storylines, has long been popular fodder on Internet forums -- but stories based on copyrighted works are essentially impossible to sell. Amazon wants to change that with its new "Kindle Worlds" ...
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Microsoft recruits Siri to bash Apple in new commercial
took aim at Apple and started to mock its products and users. Now, it appears Microsoft is going to try to take the same road to riches with Windows 8 and Windows RT. Alongside a new campaign that compares Windows RT tablets like the ASUS VivoTab Smart to the competition, Microsoft has debuted a clever ad that pits Apple's iPad against Windows RT. As the commercial shows off various ...
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Help protect yourself from signed malware in OS X
With the discovery of malware signed with a valid Apple ID, here are some steps you can take to help prevent the remote chance of any such programs infecting your ...
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Yahoos at it again with gaming platform acquisition
(Credit: PlayerScale) Yahoo's at it again. The online giant has made another acquisition only days after reaching a deal to buy Tumblr. This time around, Yahoo is expanding in the gaming arena with the purchase ...
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The wide world of hacking in China
The Chinese have been known to be experts at hacking for quite some time. But what might surprise some is that it's an epidemic across the country in all levels of ...
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ATT nabs Samsung Galaxy S4 exclusively in red
Samsung Galaxy S4's latest hue. The Aurora Red shade of the 16GB Galaxy S4 goes on sale to AT&T customers starting June 14, though pre-orders begin May 24. AT&T seems to have a special affinity for red shades; just about a year ago it ...
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Girls winning Google Doodle shows her dad home from war
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) A picture depicting a girl's reunion with her father returning from war has won the top award in a Google Doodle contest. On display Thursday ...
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Stocks fall on Fed weak Chinese manufacturing
NEW YORK -; Stocks fell in early trading, extending a sell-off that began Wednesday afternoon, after Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly contracted and on concern that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its stimulus ...
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What to know about refinancing
The housing market is soaring in part because mortgage rates have never been this low. However, rates have been slowly climbing back up with the improvement of the economy and better-than-expected jobless claims. Refinancing and lowering your rate can be a great way to increase cash flow if you are planning on holding onto the property as a long-term investment ...
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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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