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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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Zuckerberg Gives $500 Million in Facebook Stock to Charity
Mark Zuckerberg donated Facebook shares worth $500 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with donors to allocate funds according to their interests.
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What to do With Unwanted Gift Cards
Disgruntled gift card recipients have plenty of options. Nina Strochlic reports.
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$5 lamp, powered by gravity, just destroyed its funding target on Indiegogo
A lamp for $5 that does not require any electrical power source? It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio.
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The days of $400 college textbooks may soon be over
Are the days of $400 college textbooks coming to an end? Initiatives from Open Educational Resources proponents, and now publishers, may mean more course content from low or no-cost online resources.
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Uber Warns Customers New Year's Eve Pricing 'Is Not For The Faint Of Heart'
Uber, the startup with an app that lets you summon a town car limousine with your smartphone, has gotten a lot of grief in the past for something it does called "surge pricing."
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Amazon Is Not A Commerce Company
Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offers.
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'Skyfall' Hits $1B at Worldwide Box Office
"Skyfall," the 23rd James Bond adventure, has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
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France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional
the Conseil prohibited a pending 75% income-tax rise on France’s wealthiest people — another French fiscal move that has generated much negative attention around the world.
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It's official: U.S. hits debt ceiling
U.S. debt reached its legal borrowing limit Monday, giving Congress about two months before it must raise the debt ceiling or risk causing the government to default on its bills and financial obligations.
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Homeless Heir To $300 Million Fortune Found Dead Under Railroad Overpass
A homeless man who was the long-lost relative of reclusive New York railroad heiress Huguette Clark and a potential heir to her $300 million fortune has been found dead in Wyoming.
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The fiscal cliff deal that almost wasn't
House Speaker John Boehner couldn't hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday. It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a "dictatorship" in the House and...
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Avis buys Zipcar for 500 million
Car rental company Avis Budget Group Inc said it will buy Zipcar Inc for about $500 million in cash to enter the fast-growing U.S. car-sharing market.The offer of $12.25 per share is at a
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Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project - Forbes
Facebook is the Internet's phone book. Twitter is its wire service. In Tumblr, 26-year-old Karp has built the Web's canvas. Now can he shape it into a money machine?
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Jim Flaherty reminds Canadians the penny’s days are numbered
Starting Feb. 4, the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies and instead start collecting them from banks and other financial institutions
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18 Tips to Dress for Less
For many, clothes are more than an expense, they're an expression, which can make overspending easy. But whether you view clothing as art or afterthought, use these tips to save a bundle.
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Wendy’s Doubles Down on Dollar Menu
Although it bumped Burger King out of second place by positioning itself as a more upscale fast-food burger chain, now Wendy’s is super-sizing its value menu by adding a second tier of under-$2 items in addition to a core group of 99-cent offerings.
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Teen offers virginity for money
Bids reach $35,000 for virginity of high school student, 18, who is auctioning herself to pay for sick mother's medical bills
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Bank Of Canada won’t discuss melting plastic bills
In response to a formal request, the Bank Of Canada released 134 pages of internal records — almost completely blanked out — concerning allegations its new polymer bills can melt.
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Healthy Debate: Should You Choose Organic?
This topic just won’t seem to go away. Is it worth the extra cost to buy organic or does healthy conventionally grown food trump pesticide-free? It’s really not a black and white issue. To get to the bottom of things, you have to look closely at different types of food.
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