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Who's Really to Blame for the Wal-Mart Strikes?
The Wal-Mart workers threatening to walk off the job on Black Friday aren't just fighting their employer. They're fighting a whole system.
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Has 'Angry Birds' Killed Mario? Let's take a look.
Can Nintendo's new Wii U or any future console for that matter compete in a world disrupted by low-budget mobile games like Angry Birds?
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I Don't Want To Go To Jail
None of us would. Nor would we willingly choose to lose a marriage, lose our health, nor lose our valuable relationships with children, extended family and chosen and valuable friends. Are our actions taking us closer or further away from our intended goals?
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What's The Heaviest Thing Amazon Will Ship For Free?
For an annual fee of $79, Amazon.com offers customers free two-day shipping on most of its inventory — a business model that defies conventional wisdom and, perhaps, the laws of gravity.
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Time Warner CEO Bewkes wants Apple to build a TV
Over the years since Apple’s efforts to build its own TV first surfaced, the company has famously met with resistance from content companies anxious about losing out in the shift to digital distribution.
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How Walmart is devouring the food system
One out of every four dollars Americans spend on groceries goes to Walmart, as we’ve reported before, and the retail behemoth is on track to seize more than a third of the market.
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Are we at the end of the line for social online games?
Social games were a phenomenon that transformed the way we looked at games, firstly with Facebook, but later also on mobile. They provided a way for companies like Zynga and OpenFeint to burst onto the scene. But as we know, in recent months Zynga’s share price tumbled.
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Text messaging turns 20, but is it past its peak?
Short message service born on 3 December 1992 has made phone firms billions, but there are signs it is losing popularity.
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What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What
Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter.
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‘Shared Sacrifice’: Hostess Used Employee Pensions to Fund Itself, While paying millions to its exec
Hostess just went bankrupt and got a judge to allow them to pay $1.75 million in bonuses to 19 of their executives. Yet… It turns out that Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees’ pensions and used it for other things.
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7 absurd ways the military wastes taxpayer dollars
If you thought the Petraeus scandal was embarrassing, wait 'til you hear how much is spent on military golf courses.
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Not Poor Enough For Medicaid: Walmart Workers
If state governors follow through on plans to oppose the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, one substantial group of low-wage workers appears vulnerable to going without medical coverage: people who work at Walmart.
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Matt Taibbi: You Can Go to Prison for Pot, While Big Banks Get Away With Laundering Drug Cartel Cash
The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda.
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Rebooting the Gaming Industry
Is there any use for expensive consoles in the era of the addictive mobile game?
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Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you?
Wikipedia claims that the donations are needed to keep the site online. Guilt-tripped journalists including Heather Brooke and Toby Young have contributed to Wikipedia in the belief that donations help fund operating costs. Students, who are already heavily in debt, are urged to donate in case Wikipedia "disappears".
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6 ways retailers trick you into buying more crap
Follow these holiday shopping guidelines and you just may be able to afford a vacation in the new year
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The Best Shot We Have: NHLPA Must Present a Take-or-Leave Offer to NHL
The NHLPA has a window of opportunity right now. If the NHLPA were to put a "final" take-it-or-leave offer out there with a tad more compromise on both sides, it would get VERY interesting.
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How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America | The Nation
When Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, December 14, inexplicably bent on ending as many lives as possible, he was carrying a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle and several high-capacity magazines.
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Online Paywalls Are Here to Stay
Don't hold your breath for your favorite publishers to ditch their paywalls anytime soon. Nearly half of newspapers (48%) currently have paywalls on their websites.
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Why It's Time to Get Excited About Digital Advertising
Native advertising not only represents a way for advertisers to reach an engaged audience, but also allows us to do work that our readers love.
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