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I Was Going To Complain About My Free 5-Star Hotel — Then I Found Out It's Only $400 A Night
So no worries!
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A single 3D-printed burger currently costs over $300,000 to make
3D printing might be the wave of the future, or it might just end up a niche hobby that's pretty cool but ultimately too expensive and complicated to ever
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9 Things You Can Actually Bet On: Super Bowl Edition
These are all real bets that you are able to make. No, really.
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Senate approves $50.5 billion in aid for Sandy victims
The Senate voted Monday to approve a $50.5 billion emergency aid bill for victims of Superstorm Sandy, three months after the storm began pounding the Northeast.
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Fendi to finance Trevi Fountain makeover
Fendi is the latest Italian luxury fashion house to come to the rescue of a deteriorating tourist attraction in Rome.
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Kim Dotcom puts up $13,500 bounty for first person to break Mega’s security system
Kim Dotcom is so confident in the security system at Mega, the newly launched file storage service, that the New Zealand-based German is offering a bounty of €10,000 (approx. US$13,580) to the first person who breaks it.
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The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show
With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can Netflix afford it?
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The weirdest Craigslist ads for Super Bowl tickets
A Rolex, a snow-blower, and a round-trip vacation to Jamaica are just three of the things crazed football fans are willing to trade on Craigslist for tickets to Super Bowl XLVII.
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Leftists demand 100 percent tax on the rich
Germany's socialist Left party want a 100 percent tax on anyone earning over €500,000 and will be including the policy in their general election campaign platform, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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Canada's penny heads into retirement
Distribution of the Canadian penny ends Monday, but with about six billion of them in circulation it's not clear how long the little coins will stay in use. The penny is being retired because it actually costs 1.6 cents to produce and the federal government believes it can save $11 million a year by getting rid of the coins.
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Ireland cashes in on jelly beans
Booms, busts and bubbles are all jargon you might associate with today's troubled Irish economy. But now you can add "beans" to that list.
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The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft
The company is Mojang AB, a development studio with one of the hottest games on the Internet. The game is Minecraft, a kind of virtual Lego set that has become an obsession for players around the world.
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Meet America's Youngest Female Billionaire
She's only 30 and shes an Heiress To The In-N-Out Burger Fortune.
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CEO gets canned months after turning down $100 million offer
Pretty much the worst nightmare of any startup CEO and cofounder just came true for Brett O'Brien, according to PandoDaily's Michael Carney. O'Brien is the CEO, chairman, and cofounder of a startup called Viddy, which makes a video-sharing app.
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Dell to go private
Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc. for a post-PC era.
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Crime That No Longer Pays
The recent surge in cybercrime comes with a silver lining: Bank robberies are plummeting, as criminals seem to wise up to the fact that heists just don't pay like they used to.
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Amazon Launches ‘Amazon Coins’ In Its First Move Into Virtual Currency
Amazon has just announced a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire owners to use on in-app purchases, app purchases, etc. in the Amazon Appstore. The service will launch in May, at which point Amazon will be giving away tens of millions of dollars worth of Amazon coins to customers.
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Trump sues Maher for $5 million for orangutan sex joke
It's best not to monkey around with Donald Trump -- or maybe that's a bad choice of words.
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'Redneck' speed freak buys super-fast jet
He's an 82-year-old "redneck hillbilly from west North Carolina" who's been scratching an itch to go fast his whole life. Finally, after decades of racing high-performance speed boats and winning world-class endurance car competitions, Preston Henn got his hands on the fastest executive jet on the planet: the G650.
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Trash strike litters streets in Seville
A pedestrian passes a pile of garbage in Seville, Spain, on Wednesday, February 6, the 10th day of a strike by garbage collectors protesting pay cuts and working hours. About 6,000 tons of rubbish have been left uncollected since the strike started. The management of Lipasam, Seville's municipal street cleaning company, rejected a plan by the city council to reduce the garbage collectors' wages by 5% while increasing their working hours, local media reported.
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