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11 years ago+6 6 0Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline
Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again -- often, companies just change the relevant revenue numbers and leave everyth ...
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11 years ago+4 4 0When Tim Cook Talks, Apple's Stock Drops
On Wednesday afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed investors and the media at the company's annual shareholders meeting. It was the sixth time in the last five months that Cook has made something like a public appearance; and it is also the si ...
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11 years ago+8 8 0Bill would force 'patent trolls' to pay legal costs
A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that aims to combat patent trolls—firms that accumulate patents for the purpose of suing other companies rather than creating new products.
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11 years ago+8 8 0Cartman in real life
I wonder if he did this on purpose.
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11 years ago+8 8 0The NRA Wants to Keep Gun Records Secret From Everyone Except the NRA
Legislators and gun rights advocates get really angry whenever nosy reporters try to use public records laws to find out who's packing heat. When the Westchester Journal News published an online map of local residents with handgun licenses last ...
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11 years ago+15 15 0The music industry grew last year for the first time since 1998
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a music industry trade group dating back to 1933, released its annual overview of the state of the business today—and the news is surprisingly good. In 2012, worldwide revenue growth from dig ...
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11 years ago+5 5 07 Ways Sitting Will Kill You
This is the one piece of bad news you shouldn't sit down for: Sitting for hours on end, every day, is bad for your health. Sitting at work is bad for you. Sitting after work is bad for you. Sitting is the new smoking, except that the furniture l ...
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11 years ago+11 11 0Next-gen consoles can't compete with PCs, says Crytek boss
Cevat Yerli says it would be "impossible" for new consoles to ever again match what high-end PCs can produce.
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11 years ago+9 9 0New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday
Starting Monday, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl.
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11 years ago+6 6 0Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months
Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic.
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11 years ago+14 14 0YouTube denies NASCAR takedown of horrific Daytona Speedway crash video
With the thousands of automatic takedown notices for illegally uploaded videos flooding Google’s inbox, it’s nice to know that the legitimately bad requests by media companies aren’t blindly approved.
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11 years ago+8 8 0Horse meat in the US? Unlikely, but tests are rare
Europe’s scandal over horse meat hidden in beef products -- including recalls of Nestle ravioli and Birds Eye chili con carne -- has renewed questions about whether Americans unwittingly could be eating equine products as well.
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11 years ago+9 9 0The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. In January 2010, Google announced that it was the target of cyberattacks originating in China; just a few months later it shuttered its China-based search service.
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11 years ago+7 7 0Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq
Ten years ago, I was nearly 30 and over $90,000 in debt. I had spent my twenties trying to build an interesting life; I had two degrees; I had lived in New York and the Bay Area; I had worked in a series of interesting jobs; I spent a lot of time tra ...
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11 years ago+3 3 0Me first, no me!
Best buddies share.
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11 years ago+6 6 0'Reader's Digest' Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The venerable magazine's parent company has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than four years. RDA Holding says it plans to emerge from Chapter 11 in less than six months. The magazine will continue to be published duri ...
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11 years ago+7 7 0Armenians head to polls
Incumbent Serge Sarkisian looks set for outright victory in the first round of presidential elections. Polling stations have opened in an election marred by an assassination attempt and a hunger strike.
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11 years ago+7 7 0Why Didn't We See the Russian Asteroid Coming?
Early this morning, a fireball blazed over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia, shattering windows, collapsing roofs, and injuring hundreds of people. Given that it was one of the biggest meteors to hit Earth in possibly a century, why didn't we se ...
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11 years ago+5 5 0After Christopher Dorner, What Next for the LAPD?
With the remains of suspected cop-killer Christopher Jordan Dorner positively identified, a police department with a complicated history with minority communities reaches out.
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11 years ago+7 7 0The real reason Pinterest bought Punchfork
Many observers have suggested that Pinterest bought the recipe site for its content. Not so, says Eric Fader of Ignited, who argues that the secret sauce is Punchfork’s technology and what it will allow Pinterest to do.