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The Most Subscribed-To YouTube Channels
7 millionSmosh is now the most-subscribed to channel on YouTube with 7 million subscribers. Here is a look at the channel's competition. All numbers are ...
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Microsoft And Google Play For High Stakes over YouTube On Windows Phone
finally received Microsoft's YouTube client for their handset. Developed by Redmond, after Google declined to support their mobile platform, the client has already sparked a war of words (and legal letters) between the two tech companies. The saga of the WP YouTube client is far from over, but it highlights two important areas - Microsoft means business with Windows Phone, and YouTube is ...
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This Housing Recovery Has Legs Michael Santoli
existing home sales surged to their highest level in more than three years. There is some bad news mixed in with all of these housing numbers, April housing starts recently plummeted from a 48-month high and applications for home mortgages dropped for the second week in a row. So will the housing recovery continue and spread, or slow ...
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Manufacturers Hope SCOTUS Takes Up The Case Of The Smelly Washer
mandated new efficiency standards for washing machines in 2001 , manufacturers responded. They retooled their factories to sell new front-loading washers, which use half as much water as their top-loading counterparts. There's only one problem with front-loaders, which just about anybody who owns one can tell you: They can stink. Because they use less water and consumers tend to shut the ...
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Philadelphia Soul Owners Taking Arena Football League To China
Arena Football League from the league. I sat down and chatted with Jaws (please see video at end of this post) this past Wednesday during a break at the Rothman ...
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How To See What Others Dont
Seeing What Others Don't is not only the title of new book by Gary Klein, it is also a mantra that can make you successful. Let's deal with the book first and then my assertion. Although I have never met him, I have been a fan of Klein for years. He is a very smart guy who is a senior scientist at MacroCognition and he begins his latest book with a simple formula. Performance ...
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Post Tornado Insurance Rates May Rise
tornado in Moore, Okla., is fixing to expand its reach. While insurance companies don't try to raise rates solely on the basis of a single storm or disaster, a series of disasters can push them to seek higher rates where the events took place. The past five years have seen numerous significant tornadoes, and with the Moore tornado coming shortly after several other serious ones ...
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Danica Patrick From Race to Sponsorships
The Indy 500 runs on Sunday, and then there is the Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, where Nascar driver Danica Patrick will be racing. Patrick discusses how she prepares for a long ...
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US dollar rises on Taipei forex ends a days high of NT$30.030
TAIPEI -- The U.S. dollar rose against the New Taiwan dollar Friday, gaining NT$0.005 to close at the day's high of NT$30.030 behind central bank intervention, dealers ...
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49ers Harbaugh to drive Indy pace car
San Francisco 49ers football coach Jim Harbaugh has been selected to drive the Indianapolis 500's pace car Sunday, a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette ...
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Slide Show The 2014 Bentley Flying Spur
The sedan version of the Bentley Continental, the 2014 Bentley Flying Spur, drops its Continental moniker but remains three tons of air-conditioned, quilted-leather land-missile. According to Autoweek, the 6.0-liter W12 engine now produces 616 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque, doled out in a 40/60 front/rear split by the all-wheel-drive system. A 110-pound weight reduction over the outgoing Flying ...
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Robert Powell How to know if you have enough to retire
Odds are high that you haven't saved enough money to retire in the manner in which you desire. That's the bad news. The good news is that you can easily gauge just how close or far away you might be. And the first to thing to check is how much you have set aside for ...
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General Motors and Deloitte Touche in $303 million securities class action
A securities class action brought against General Motors (GM) by German’s DekaBank has led to a cash settlement of $277 million. In one of the biggest shareholder recoveries of 2008, the settlement will be paid to shareholders following an alleged misstatement of the auto company’s financials dating back to 2000. GM’s outside auditor, Deloitte & Touche, is ...
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Microsoft office goes cloud to join cloud war with Google Docs
The war on cloud intensified as Microsoft Office announced its decision on Tuesday to go cloud in an attempt to compete with its immediate but not last competitor, Google Docs.Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software. Most computer users in the world use the Office software for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and other purposes. However, Microsoft Office ...
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Audra McDonald Releases New Album Appears In Nationally Televised Solo Concert
televised concert , featuring selections from the album, on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. She talked recently at the New York office of Nonesuch, her recording company, about her work, influences and ...
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5 Steps to Making a Sale Through Social Media
An integral part of the sales process is getting to know your prospects and establishing relationships—and it turns out that social media can help you accomplish this quickly and easily. Follow these steps to make sales using social ...
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Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One
Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect ...
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New Research Social Media Trends For Marketers In 2013
Social Media Examiner has just released its annual Social Media Marketing report. It reveals some interesting data about this year's social media marketing trends. The entire report is available for ...
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Ed OBannon Case Against NCAA Will Gain Herculean Steam If Tim Tebow Johnny Manziel Join Lawsuit
Tim Tebow seems to always be smiling, but will the NCAA and EA Sports also be smiling if he joins the Ed O'Bannon class-action lawsuit? In the immortal words ...
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Stalking the wildly cute koala
Opening just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the San Diego Zoo's new Conrad Prebys Australian Outback exhibit has twice as much space as the old koala exhibit, with room for bulldozing wombats, cackling kookaburra and snoozy wallabies. Not to mention more koalas and many more places to watch them do what koalas ...
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Slacker Internet radio picks up the pace
Internet radio outfit Slacker detected a touch of gray in its service last year. The retro/biker dashboard player for Web and mobile listeners essentially had gone unchanged since the San Diego company was founded in ...
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Market Snapshot Bears cite performance chasing as stocks rise
"My experience is when managers are overly focused on performance on a near-term basis, and worried they're missing out, it means they're buying stocks for the wrong reasons," said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital ...
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Source Xbox Ones Heart-Sensing Tech Not Microsofts Idea
has baked into the forthcoming Xbox One is the new Kinect sensor's ability to read your heart rate, which it does optically using a system similar to (or even based ...
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Del Negro Firing Decision Making Process
Los Angeles Clipper Head Coach Vinny Del Negro, who had the most successful tenure of any Coach in Clipper history, was fired this week by owner Donald Sterling. How does unparalleled success lead to termination? Was it the intervention of star players with the owner that led to his downfall? The Clippers have had a long and inglorious history filled with losing. Since the 1976-77 season, ...
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Do iFarts Not Stink Coping With Tech Envy In The Valley
TOS . Safe to say, a pharma executive facing this committee would have had a very different experience. It could well be that Cook's tax reform suggestions are good ones, and that all CEOs, including pharma leaders, deserve intense Congressional grilling. Even so, there's still a conspicuous differential between the way we think about (at least some) tech companies, and how we view ...
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