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Disney making Star Wars Rebels a new animated show
The show will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special and then as a regular series. It's set chronologically between the third prequel film and the original "Star Wars" ...
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Financial Stocks Bank of America leads financials higher
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Financial stocks were up in early trades on Monday, continuing their winning streak ahead of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress on ...
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Tech Stocks Yahoo shares edge up after Tumblr deal
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging-service operator Tumblr claimed the tech sector's spotlight on Monday, with the deal seen as a potential gamble by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer in her attempts to reinvigorate the one-time Internet ...
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FDA has safety concerns on Merck insomnia drug
WASHINGTON - Federal health regulators say an experimental insomnia drug from Merck can help patients fall asleep, but it also carries worrisome side effects, including daytime drowsiness and suicidal thinking.The Food and Drug Administration released its review of the company's sleep aid, suvorexant, ahead of a public meeting on Wednesday. The pill works by temporarily blocking chemical ...
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Nancy Jo Sales On The Bling Ring And The Trouble With Our Fixation On Fame
Kim Kardashian , Octomom, Honey Boo Boo. Today, it feels like getting your 15 minutes of fame is easier than logging into Facebook. For some, like the Kardashians, that means bursting bank accounts, paparazzi, and spur-of-the-moment yachting trips. For most of us, it means being constantly bombarded with "news" about the very wealthy and very vacuous - people who've achieved an ...
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Apple And Google The New Old Reality
iOS platform in terms of smartphone unit shipments. Android grew 79% over the period a year ago improving its rankings to a 75% market share compared to a 7% growth for iOS reducing its rankings to a 17% market share. Prior to Apple's decade-long run of new products from the iPod to the iPad, Apple was considered a niche player in an industry dominated by heavyweights ...
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6 Lessons From The Success Of IT Doesnt Matter
says that Carr "has largely been vindicated"? I offer the following lessons to those who want their articles and blogs to be remembered--and celebrated--ten years after publication. Lesson #1: Use a provocative and controversial title. "Provocative" and "controversial," in the context of a widely-discussed article, usually mean that it reflects a prevailing mood, ...
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Sinas Growth Rides The Ad Market Recovery And Weibo Monetization
While the outlook in the Chinese Internet advertising market looks mixed in the short term, we expect the company to leverage its partnership with Alibaba to gradually boost its ...
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Hiring New Graduates Is One Thing. Now How Do You Keep Them
Universum Employer Branding Conference that was held in New York City. The major thrust of the conference was to discuss strategies to help employers differentiate themselves in the marketplace so they can gain an edge when competing to both hire and retain top talent among new college graduates. My comments were designed to help employers and challenge them to think differently (more about that ...
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BlackBerrys Q5 And Cross-Platform BBM Support Are Key To Its Comeback
BlackBerry is now targeting the emerging markets with low-end smartphones. At the BlackBerry Keynote address held on May 14, the handset maker took the wraps off the Q5 - its long awaited QWERTY replacement for the earlier generation low-end Curve handsets that were a rage in the emerging markets. While BlackBerry will look to improve margins and return to full-year profitability with the help ...
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Leveraged Finance Volume Hits $25B As High Yield Takes Charge
Leveraged finance volume in the U.S. for the week ended May 16 was a healthy $24.8 billion, according to S&P Capital IQ/LCD. The activity was paced by a frenetic bond market, which saw $13.2 billion in issuance through Thursday. That's the second-busiest week of the year, behind the $17 billion seen the week ended March 21. It's also the first time in 2013 weekly bond issuance has ...
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5 Reminders Every Leader Needs
There's an obvious list of things to keep in mind as a leader: treat people well, hold your values, and help others. However, when you get overwhelmingly busy, something always falls through the cracks. You need a reminder now and then. I attended Big Omaha this year, and it was quite an experience because several of the speakers offered reminders I needed to hear. Here are some of the ...
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Can Best Buys Turnaround Efforts Lift Earnings
Best Buy will announce its Q1 results on May 20. We expect the company to report better year-over-year revenues largely due to its price matching policy. However, margins could come in lower due to aggressive pricing, which will weigh on ...
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The Too Big To Fail Federal Reserve Bank At 100 Years Of Age
Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke As the markets reach new highs, and scandal dominates the nation's capitol, I am compelled to examine the still unresolved challenges about whether our 100 year old central bank- the Federal Reserve- will be capable of warding off another potential systemic financial crisis like the one that almost toppled the economy in 2008. And secondarily, whether ...
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Google Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association
IDG News Service - After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint Thursday that the European Privacy Association is working to represent industry ...
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Market and Economy What the Fed Misses
Whatever course it chooses, the Federal Reserve will have to grapple with the reality that while its policies have helped levitate stocks, they've been considerably less effective at expanding the economy. While rising equity prices help add to total growth, the stock market is not the economy. The U.S. economy, rather, is propelled by consumption, which accounts for about 70 percent ...
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Cramer The Tumblr Acquisition Works
"Squawk on the Street," and many in the market may not be young enough to realize it. "People who are devoid of a blog, they go on Tumblr," Cramer said. "Social media is underrated by people who are older than 23." Despite a lack of significant earnings from Tumblr, over time several acquisitions of this nature have paid off, such ...
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Stocks open mixed as investors eye Federal Reserve
CNBC's Jim Cramer explains why Yahoo is "desperate' to become part of the technical "firmament." Stocks were narrowly mixed Monday, as investors seemed to take a breather after major averages finished higher for the fourth-consecutive week and amid ongoing concerns ...
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Supersize your takeout Seamless and GrubHub merge
Customers from more than 500 cities will be able to order from 20,000 local restaurants through the joint company. The companies said in a statement that the merger will allow them to pool technology and offer orders from an expanded list of restaurants in the U.S. and also in the U.K. For instance, Jonathan Zabusky, Seamless' CEO, said the merger would combine its popular iPad app with ...
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Chuck Jaffe Fund investors Ignore individual stocks
That, in turn, has inspired decades of "window-dressing," the oft-disavowed but widely practiced tactic of making sure that "the right names" are in a portfolio on the days when the fund must report holdings, so that shareholders are comforted with the picture they see when they get that rare glimpse of what's ...
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Yahoo’s Tumblr deal ‘a long-shot long-term’ bet
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr was quickly viewed by analysts as a bold, potentially game-changing long-term bet, but one fraught with risks for a Web portal struggling with so many other ...
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Futures Movers Oil futures head lower after three-session climb
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures headed lower Monday, falling back below $96 a barrel after a three-session climb as traders fretted over ample U.S. supplies ahead of the latest weekly inventory ...
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Outside the Box Can you learn to be ethical in business
American business schools are lining up to show accreditors and anyone else interested that their students are well-grounded in ethics and social ...
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Sprint buys Handmark OneLouder to boost ad service
(Credit: Maggie Reardon/CNET) Sprint Nextel has acquired Handmark and its unit OneLouder Apps to boost its Pinsight Media+ advertising ...
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Samsung to unveil 13.3-inch 3200x1800 LCD display
Samsung will demo a new LCD screen that would top similar displays in resolution and pixel density. Geared for notebooks, the 13.3-inch WQXGA+ LCD ...
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