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Walmart Black Friday Strike Being Organized Online For Stores Across U.S.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving regarded as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, may be dramatically different this year. Organizers are planning a nationwide strike against Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, and are banking on a new strategy: online organizing.
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First winners of pot legalization? The defendants of 220 misdemeanor drug cases dismissed.
When the tax money begins to roll in, and the savings of not prosecuting pot smokers begins to be realized, more states will legalize. And fast. The bottom line will do this. It's all about money and we're about to see a major shift.
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6 Truly Bizarre Video-Game Company Origins
A look at some of the strangest places that today's biggest video-game companies hailed from.
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It's Always the Pirate's Fault!
This is actually spot on and perfect, not just for games, but for all entertainment media. Most pirates aren't thieves, they're disgruntled consumers.
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Google-Dish wireless service is a go, plans for 2013 launch being hatched
Google has held talks with satellite television provider Dish Network regarding the possibility of a venture that would see Google launch its own cellular network and compete directly with the likes of Verizon and AT&T.
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Marijuana dispenser stock gets too high
In a news release today, the company said that the stock’s rocket launch, which sent its market cap skyrocketing from $45 million at the start of the week to a staggering $2.3 billion, was ignited by a MarketWatch story Tuesday on how to invest in legalized marijuana.
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Apple Now Owns the Page Turn
If you want to know just how broken the patent system is, just look at patent D670,713, filed by Apple and approved this week by the United States Patent Office.
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Ikea Admits Forced Labor Had Been Used in 1980s
Ikea has long been famous for its inexpensive, some-assembly-required furniture. On Friday the company admitted that political prisoners in the former East Germany provided some of the labor that helped it keep its prices so low.
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Where 16 Of The Strangest Company Names Came From
Google. Yahoo. Yandex. Some of today's biggest companies are named the strangest things. Sometimes, it's not the company's fault. There's a running joke that vowels are too expensive in Silicon Valley and founders can't afford normal-sounding domain names.
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Hostess Twinkies CEO tripled salary to $2.5m while preparing to file bankruptcy
Hostess Twinkies’ CEO tripled his salary to $2.55 million while the company was preparing to go into bankruptcy. And nine top executives saw massive pay raises, some nearly doubling their salary.
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Scumbag Best Buy
As close as possible too.
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Why the WalMart strike matters
On Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, WalMart workers across the country will go on strike to protest inadequate wages and benefits and the company’s pattern of illegal retaliation for union activity.
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How Dan Houser turned Grand Theft Auto into a cultural phenomenon
There isn't another video game firm in the world like Rockstar Games. Founded in 1998 by Dan Houser and his brother Sam, it has been responsible for some of the most fascinating, successful and controversial video games ever.
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Supercell: The cash-rich, little-known Finnish startup that could soon be worth $600M
The next big thing in gaming comes to you from the land of Angry Birds and unless you saw this brief New York Times blog post, you’ve likely never heard of it. And even if you read that, you have no idea how much cash their hot iOS games, “Hay Day” and ”Clash of Clans,” are actually pulling in.
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As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.
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Can the BlackBerry device make a comeback?
Research in Motion (RIM) was once atop the mobile Smartphone world in 2008 with their revolutionary BlackBerry Smartphones. Fast forward to present day and the company is a shell of its former self, having massive layoffs of employees and a plummeting stock value, and undergoing major changes.
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First strike: how tech's superpowers could start an ecosystem war
It’s a war for ecosystem territory, in which companies are vying to keep users within their own lands and making small but strategically important incursions on the peripheries of other players.
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BP hit by largest criminal fine in US history
BP has been stung for $4.5 billion - the largest criminal fine in US history - and the company could be liable for a further $21 billion in civil damages.
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Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out
Upstart Internet search engine DuckDuckGo, which promotes itself as a Google Inc rival which does not track users' personal information, says it is being hurt by the search giant which is being investigated by U.S. regulators.
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Guyana to get $45M from Norway for saving forests
The South American country of Guyana says it will receive an additional $45 million in cash from Norway as a reward for protecting its Amazonian rainforest.
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