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6 tips on managing your 401 plan effectively
The run-up in stock prices this year could tempt even the most hands-off investor to wade into their 401(k) and make some changes.The Dow Jones industrial average, Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes are each up more than 20 percent over the past 12 months. But experts suggest investors tread cautiously and avoid major changes aimed at timing the market."It's a retirement ...
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Gap back in style as 1Q profit jumps 43 percent
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, a shopper walks down the steps at a Gap store in Los Angeles. The Gap Inc. reports quarterly financial results after the market closes on Thursday, May 23, ...
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What LeBron James In The Clutch Can Teach Us About Managing Fear
LeBron James has gradually learned to thrive under the media microscope. Aspiring leaders with a shy streak can learn from his example. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via ...
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No Facebook Phone For The United Kingdom
Facebook Home in action (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) UK network EE have confirmed that the HTC First, the so-called Facebook Phone, will not be sold in the UK ...
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Daisy Buchanans $4.7 Million Pearl Necklace
"the third dimension is money." While wealth permeates F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrative the references to actual dollar amounts in his original novel are few. Nick Carraway pays $80 a month to live in West Egg. Tom Buchanan buys his mistress a dog for $10. And a tank of gas at Wilson's station costs $1.20. Even in current dollars -- $1,063, $133 and $15.94 respectively -- ...
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New Ford Campaign Counts On UEFA Soccer To Reach Europe
European advertising campaign this weekend tied to the "Super Bowl" of the continent's favorite sport, soccer. Ford of Europe is leveraging the hugely popular 2013 UEFA Champions League Final football match on Saturday to begin ...
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Microsoft cleared in Xbox patent spat with Google
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it won't review a final ruling that found Microsoft to be in the clear of infringing on patents held by Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired last year. The ruling ...
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The kitchen countertop wants juice and smoothies
(Credit: Williams Sonoma) The kitchen countertop is valuable real estate. With available counter space always at a premium, gadgets and appliances that are contenders for acreage require something to help them stand out from the crowd. Sometimes it's a matter of versatility and other times it's convenience that determines what gets to stay and what has to go. And sometimes ...
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Watch the planets dance in a triple conjunction
(Credit: European Southern Observatory) Triple planetary conjunctions are relatively rare in the night sky, but astronomers are about to be in for a real treat. The three brightest planets in our solar system as seen from Earth -- Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus -- will be coming together in the sky, "dancing" around each other over the course of several nights, starting Friday, May ...
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Long-term unemployed ready to work
All but one in the group was over 50 and had been unemployed 27 weeks or longer. They represent the part of unemployment that hasn't fallen with the rest of it -- long term joblessness. While the U.S. jobless rate has declined from a high of 10 percent in 2009 to 7.5 percent in the last four years, the percentage of people who are unemployed for six months or longer has hovered around 40 ...
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Summary Box Stocks recover from an early swoon
UPS AND DOWNS: Stocks plunged at the opening of trading but recovered by midday. A rout overseas and in the early going on Wall Street was set off by a slowdown in China and worries that the Federal Reserve might slow down its bond purchases. By the afternoon the U.S. market had recouped nearly all of its loss.BUCKING THE TREND: Hewlett-Packard surged $3.63, or 17.1 percent, to $24.86 after the ...
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U.S. Manufacturing Growth Slows a Bit in May
The pace of U.S. manufacturing growth in May slowed marginally from April, Markit Economics data released Tuesday indicates. It was the second consecutive month in which the pace of growth slowed, the research firm said. Markit, however, noted that the critical new orders index for manufacturers rose in the month. The figures released Thursday are considered a flash estimate and could be ...
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Microsofts Interactive Xbox One Debuts
Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the past two years, Microsoft has led the gaming industry in console sales with the Xbox 360. But it's been eight ...
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FedExVoice Why Forecasting Leads To Success In Your Business
forecasting . The rub is that many entrepreneurs and SMB owners say they're too busy to sit down and create a forecast, which is really just a picture of what your company might look like up to a year or more into the future. Failing to take ...
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Can We Get A Decent Smartphone Camera
Rambus' new technology measures the amount of light hitting each pixel on a sensor to ensure a steady flow of photons without any excess. The result: a wider range of detail in light and shadow. The smartphone era has given us pocket computers with countless powerful features, but they still take lousy photos. The reason an Instagram is inferior to what you see with your eye has to do ...
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A Guide To Fixing The Housing Market
, eliminate the insanity and chaos in the afraid-to-make-a-mistake mortgage industry. Starting with a robust housing market as the desired result, and working backwards through the maze of barriers to achieve that end, we need to establish a framework from which we can launch this initiative. Last, we will need an efficient and reliable mortgage financing industry to provide a means to ...
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Prepared Text Obamas Speech on Drones and Guantanamo
Today in Washington, D.C., President Obama delivered a speech defending America's use of drones and outlining how he will renew the process to close Guantanamo. Below is the text of his speech, as prepared for ...
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Yahoos Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions
Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to ';integrate the company's audio and video programming, business services and advertising programs into Yahoo,'; then Yahoo president Jeff Mallett told CNET at the time. Looks like that plan fell through, as ...
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Tech Labor Shortage Wages Are Actually Falling
described as "a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business." Instead of rapidly rising wages indicating a shortage, wages for software developers are falling, according to a recent ...
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Growing Health-Care Tech Worker Shortage
It may not be long before Explorys outgrows the loft space at its Cleveland offices. The health-care big data firm has doubled its staff to 100 in the last ...
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UPDATE 1-ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent
Thu May 23, 2013 6:37pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into the ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream
(Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) Foursquare is now selling unfettered access to its real-time stream of check-ins through Gnip, a popular reseller of social-media data. The companies announced the partnership Thursday in separate blog posts that celebrate the possibilities for ...
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Xbox Ones unexpected pitch Its the Dad Box
(Credit: PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) For years we've heard about the ever-widening appeal of video games and game-playing devices. Women gamers, senior gamers, casual gamers, and even the kind of social/mobile gamers who would never refer to themselves with the dreaded G word. But, when it was time to reveal its first major gaming hardware of the post-iPhone era (the first-gen iPhone was ...
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Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine
, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...
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