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A New Generation Of Supercars Was Born At The Geneva Motor Show
Business Insider - 6 Mar 2013 01:31
The Geneva Motor Show opened to the press on Tuesday, and while there are clear signs of the disastrous state of the European auto market, there's plenty of glitz and glamour on display as well. That's because European l...
Microsoft: No, We're Not Abandoning Our Anti-Google Campaign
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 05:03
Microsoft has no intention of completely ending its Google-bashing ad campaign, "Scroogled," the company told Business Insider. Reports flew on the Internet today that Microsoft would kill off the controversial effort wh...
Jamie Lee Curtis Blasts Seth MacFarlane's 'Boobs' Song In New Blog Post
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 03:36
Jamie Lee Curtis was so offended by Seth MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" Oscars song that she wrote a whole blog on the The Huffington Post about it. In a post titled "And the Oscar Goes to... Hell,"Â the 54-year-old ...
Martha Stewart defends J.C. Penney deal
NBC News - 6 Mar 2013 01:45Best Buy CEO: 'You Need To Feel Disposable, As Opposed To Indispensable' (BBY)
Business Insider - 6 Mar 2013 01:38
Hubert Joly, the new chief at Best Buy, has made a bold move to totally revamp the culture at the struggling consumer electronics big box chain. Last November at an investor conference, Joly gave a revealing quote to the...
Ex-Lehman rep scores rare arb win as forgivable loan is forgiven
Investment News - 6 Mar 2013 01:20
Finra panel says Tanner does not have to pay back promissory note; document, document, document
David Peck: Can NextGen CEO's Guide Us to a Different Era of Capitalism?
The Huffington Post - 6 Mar 2013 00:54See The New Jersey Factory Where Cocaine Is Removed From The Ingredients Of Coca-Cola (KO)
Business Insider - 6 Mar 2013 00:30
For decades, Coca-Cola has worked to correct the misimpression that its signature beverage, Coke, used to contain cocaine. Coke did once contain trace amounts of the drug, but even those were removed completely from the ...
LEGO Made An Awesome Ad To Celebrate The Mars Rover
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 22:21
As NASA's Curiosity Rover explores Mars, LEGO decided to re-imagine what the scene would look like if the famous blocks were on the red planet. And it looks pretty cool. Oreo has been bringing in all the recent headlines...
Legendary Architect Zaha Hadid Is A Terror To Work For
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 20:39
Zaha Hadid is one of the world's most respected architects, she was the first female winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest award, and has built dramatic and famous buildings around the world, including the...
Twitter to shut down Android, iOS versions of TweetDeck
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2013 07:02
Twitter is discontinuing versions of its TweetDeck client for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Adobe Air.
Putting Stocks in Hock: Securities Back More Big Loans
Wall Street Journal - 5 Mar 2013 05:02
Wealthy investors are embracing a somewhat surprising and potentially risky strategy: pawning their stocks and bonds.
Heinz CEO To Get Huge Pay Out If He's Fired
The Huffington Post - 5 Mar 2013 04:53JCP Shares Dive After Hours On Report That Investor Is Trying To Dump A HUGE Stake In The Company (JCP)
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 03:48
Earlier this afternoon, CNBC's John Melloy reported that a major JC Penney shareholders was trying to dump 10 million shares of stock at a price range of $16.40 to $16.60. Melloy reports that the seller is Vornado Realty...
Infamous Drug Lord Dropped From Billionaires List
The Huffington Post - 5 Mar 2013 03:27Torrent Site Pirate Bay Claims To Have Moved Servers To North Korea
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 03:02
The Pirate Bay, a popular bit torrent website, is claiming they've found a new source of refuge: the "hermit kingdom" North Korea. Various international litigators have chased The Pirate Bay all around the globe, insisti...
CHART OF THE DAY: The Incredible Destruction Of Apple (AAPL)
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2013 02:39
Apple's stock fell to another new low point of its current crash, closing at $420.15. It's an incredible decline for the stock which was at $700 in September. If you want a rational reason for the stock's decline, we hav...
2013 Forbes Billionaires List: China's Billionaire Auto Enterpreneurs
Forbes - 5 Mar 2013 02:03FindTheBest raises $11M to kill comparison shopping hell
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2013 01:59
FindTheBest is the first and only site that I've seen that lets you compare both STD clinics and dog breeds -- so it probably deserves the $11 million its getting.
300 staff lose their jobs at Axminster Carpets
The Guardian - 6 Mar 2013 01:57
Company fell into administration following a sharp increase in the cost of raw materials and a fall in sales About 300 staff have lost their jobs at Axminster Carpets after the company that supplied Brighton Pavilion and...
VENEZUELA VP SAYS HUGO CHAVEZ IS DEAD
Business Insider - 6 Mar 2013 01:55
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Manduro says President Hugo Chavez has died, Reuters reports. The 58-year-old Venezuelan President has been fighting an undisclosed type of pelvic cancer since at least June 30, 2011,...
Verizon wants all of Verizon Wireless — considering a Vodafone merger or buyout
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2013 01:54
Verizon no longer wants its wireless destiny tied to the European carrier Vodafone.