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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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Google may face antitrust inquiry over display ads -- again
Google has reportedly returned to the display ads hot seat with the Federal Trade Commission, after avoiding disciplinary action following an antitrust probe ...
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Plant restart wont wait on investigations
The restart of the San Onofre nuclear plant could be authorized before the conclusion of investigations into the conduct of the plant operator, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told a Senate committee on ...
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Stocks edge lower as investors reassess Fed fears
NEW YORK -- Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower.U.S. markets plummeted immediately after the opening bell Thursday following a global slump prompted in part by an unexpectedly weak report on manufacturing in China. Concern that the Federal Reserve might ease back on its economic stimulus program sooner than expected had ...
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After Hours Pandora jumps Sears tanks after hours
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Pandora Media Inc. and Marvell Technology both advanced in after-hours action Thursday following their quarterly earnings reports. Sears sank on a large loss for the ...
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Choose The Winners Of The Power of Age Challenge
Unleash the Power of Age Challenge , celebrating remarkable people over 60 doing remarkable things. This week, you can vote for your favorites among the 14 finalists to help choose the three winners. The challenge is the brainchild of the U.S. Administration for Community Living, a year-old agency that includes ...
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Is Tumblr Going To Be Yahoos YouTube
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr founder David Karp pose for a photo during an annoucement that Yahoo acquired the Tumblr blogging site, in New York, May 20, 2013. Yahoo announced a $1.1 billion deal for blogging site Tumblr aiming to help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) I got an email on Monday from Larry Kim, ...
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10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well
10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well We all know that most doctors, lawyers, and CEOs make good money-but you may be surprised to learn that funeral service managers, hot dog vendors, and ice cream testers can also pull in a pretty penny. To compile our 2013 list of 10 unusual jobs that pay surprisingly well, I combed ...
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Heres Why Janet Jackson Is Not On Our Billionaires List
in Variety this week about Jackson titled "Behind the Velvet Rope." The story is connected to Jackson's work with the charity AmFAR and is surrounded by full-page ads congratulating Jackson on being "a billion dollar entertainer." To be fair, the story does not specifically say that Jackson is a billionaire. It just lays out the money that her work has brought in over ...
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