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Yahoos Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions
Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to ';integrate the company's audio and video programming, business services and advertising programs into Yahoo,'; then Yahoo president Jeff Mallett told CNET at the time. Looks like that plan fell through, as ...
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Tech Labor Shortage Wages Are Actually Falling
described as "a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business." Instead of rapidly rising wages indicating a shortage, wages for software developers are falling, according to a recent ...
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Growing Health-Care Tech Worker Shortage
It may not be long before Explorys outgrows the loft space at its Cleveland offices. The health-care big data firm has doubled its staff to 100 in the last ...
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UPDATE 1-ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent
Thu May 23, 2013 6:37pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into the ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream
(Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) Foursquare is now selling unfettered access to its real-time stream of check-ins through Gnip, a popular reseller of social-media data. The companies announced the partnership Thursday in separate blog posts that celebrate the possibilities for ...
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Xbox Ones unexpected pitch Its the Dad Box
(Credit: PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) For years we've heard about the ever-widening appeal of video games and game-playing devices. Women gamers, senior gamers, casual gamers, and even the kind of social/mobile gamers who would never refer to themselves with the dreaded G word. But, when it was time to reveal its first major gaming hardware of the post-iPhone era (the first-gen iPhone was ...
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Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine
, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...
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Google may face antitrust inquiry over display ads -- again
Google has reportedly returned to the display ads hot seat with the Federal Trade Commission, after avoiding disciplinary action following an antitrust probe ...
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Plant restart wont wait on investigations
The restart of the San Onofre nuclear plant could be authorized before the conclusion of investigations into the conduct of the plant operator, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told a Senate committee on ...
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Stocks edge lower as investors reassess Fed fears
NEW YORK -- Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower.U.S. markets plummeted immediately after the opening bell Thursday following a global slump prompted in part by an unexpectedly weak report on manufacturing in China. Concern that the Federal Reserve might ease back on its economic stimulus program sooner than expected had ...
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After Hours Pandora jumps Sears tanks after hours
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Pandora Media Inc. and Marvell Technology both advanced in after-hours action Thursday following their quarterly earnings reports. Sears sank on a large loss for the ...
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Choose The Winners Of The Power of Age Challenge
Unleash the Power of Age Challenge , celebrating remarkable people over 60 doing remarkable things. This week, you can vote for your favorites among the 14 finalists to help choose the three winners. The challenge is the brainchild of the U.S. Administration for Community Living, a year-old agency that includes ...
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Is Tumblr Going To Be Yahoos YouTube
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr founder David Karp pose for a photo during an annoucement that Yahoo acquired the Tumblr blogging site, in New York, May 20, 2013. Yahoo announced a $1.1 billion deal for blogging site Tumblr aiming to help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) I got an email on Monday from Larry Kim, ...
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10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well
10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well We all know that most doctors, lawyers, and CEOs make good money-but you may be surprised to learn that funeral service managers, hot dog vendors, and ice cream testers can also pull in a pretty penny. To compile our 2013 list of 10 unusual jobs that pay surprisingly well, I combed ...
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Heres Why Janet Jackson Is Not On Our Billionaires List
in Variety this week about Jackson titled "Behind the Velvet Rope." The story is connected to Jackson's work with the charity AmFAR and is surrounded by full-page ads congratulating Jackson on being "a billion dollar entertainer." To be fair, the story does not specifically say that Jackson is a billionaire. It just lays out the money that her work has brought in over ...
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BusinessAviationVoice As The Dow Increases So Does Business Travel
The economy took its toll on business travel, but the worst appears over. By all accounts, business aviation providers are experiencing a strong uptick in business coinciding with buoyancy in the Dow Industrials. Fractional ownership provider, Flexjet, reported an 83 percent increase in new business growth for the first quarter 2013 over the same period last year. Sales of fractional shares ...
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The FDA Responds To Steve Nissens Criticism Of Upcoming Avandia Meeting
This morning, I published a guest post from Steven Nissen, Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, alleging that the most likely rationale for an upcoming panel meeting being held by the Food and Drug Administration was to make some FDA leaders less accountable for the scandals that surrounded the diabetes drug Avandia. ...
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Obamacare premiums in California lower than predicted
Health insurers in California will charge an average of $304 a month for the cheapest silver-level plan in state-based exchanges next year, according to rates released Thursday by Covered California, which is implementing the Affordable Care Act there. But many residents will pay a lot less than that for ...
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Beware of shadow banks - opinion
The Shadow, the hero of a 1930s radio show, could see the evil lurking in the hearts of men. Unfortunately, consumers can't always see the trouble lurking in another kind of shadow -- the shadow bank -- until it's too ...
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Stocks claw back from steep losses
U.S. stocks recovered from steep declines Thursday to end only modestly lower as investors discounted concerns about the Federal Reserve curtailing its bond buying ...
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Meet the 23-ton X-Wing the worlds largest Lego model
There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut today in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon ...
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Market Extra H-P rally Turnaround or sugar high
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. was the star on Wall Street Thursday, as the stock rallied on the tech giant's results despite a broad market slump -- closing the day with its biggest one-day gain in more than a ...
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Pandora gets a lift on strong sales outlook
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Pandora Media Inc. surged in after-hours trading Thursday after the online radio company reported better-than-expected sales for the first quarter, with big gains in revenue from mobile ...
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Lambda Labs readying Google Glass face-recognition API
Based on its face-rec API released last year, Lambda Labs' Google Glass Face Recognition API could help you recognize people who are less famous than Tiger ...
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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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