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Here's How Offside Works In Soccer
Business Insider - 13 Jun 2014 20:25
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Mexico Gets A 1-0 Win Over Cameroon After Having 2 Goals Disallowed On Blown Calls
Business Insider - 13 Jun 2014 18:52
Mexico beat Cameroon 1-0 in a their first World Cup game in rain-soaked Natal. El Tri wasn't perfect. They looked shaky at the back and a late save from goalie Memo Ochoa saved the game. But Mexico created a bunch of cha...
MIT: Without patent trolls, VCs would have invested $8B more
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2014 06:24
A new paper from MIT's Sloan Business school finds that hyperactive patent litigators robbed the tech industry of billions in investment.
The 5 Best Reasons To Buy A PS4 - After E3 2014
Forbes - 13 Jun 2014 13:56
Read: The 5 Best Reasons To Buy An Xbox One - After E3 2014
Loans Come With Few Strings
Wall Street Journal - 13 Jun 2014 06:29
Lending to weaker companies on easy terms is becoming more common as investors' appetite for higher-yielding debt grows stronger and the Fed keeps money flowing at ultralow rates.
Dave Brat's Victory Is Bad For Both Republicans And America
Business Insider - 13 Jun 2014 23:51
Republicans must not misunderstand the meaning of Eric Cantor's defeat. Eric Cantor is by most standards a fairly conservative American. The House majority leader's commitment to cutting government spending has survived ...
Priceline OpenTable: Travel Booking Site Pays $2.6 Billion For A Seat At The Restaurant Business
IBTimes - 13 Jun 2014 18:31
Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) will buy OpenTable Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN) in a $2.6 billion cash deal announced Friday, giving the budget travel booking site a seat at the restaurant reservation table. Its bid of $103 per...
Iraq Violence Sends Tremors Across Global Markets
Bidness etc. - 13 Jun 2014 18:02
Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices rose to nine-month highs early today as sectarian violence erupted in northern Iraq, while global equity markets turned red following reports that the US Military may ...
U.S. Producer Prices Unexpectedly Fall
The New York Times - 13 Jun 2014 17:30
U.S. producer prices fell in May after two month of solid gains, but the decline was not enough to change perceptions that inflation pressures are steadily creeping up.
Apartment building foreclosures plunge in Chicago
Chicago Tribune - 13 Jun 2014 07:21Getting introductions to investors: the ranking algorithm
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2014 06:45
My friend Ed Zimmerman wrote a terrific post for his WSJ blog, “Help Me Help You”, on soliciting him (and others like him) for investor introductions. I wanted to add to Ed’s post and observe that not all introduct...
Ex-BP engineer wins new trial in Gulf of Mexico spill case
Reuters - 13 Jun 2014 06:01
(Reuters) - An engineer convicted of obstructing justice in connection with the 2010 BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico won a new trial on Thursday.
Hedge Funds Get Stung by Slow Markets
Wall Street Journal - 13 Jun 2014 05:20
Some of the biggest investors on Wall Street are losing money with wrong-way bets in markets around the globe, a surprising black eye amid a rise in stock and bond prices.
DealBook: In Emerging Markets, What Scares Most Investors Entices Oppenheimer
The New York Times - 13 Jun 2014 04:36
Mr. Leverenz, who runs America's largest emerging markets mutual fund at Oppenheimer Fund, believes that nations like China, Brazil, Russia and India are experiencing economic and social change that won't be reversed.
Relativity Media to close $1B pre-IPO funding
New York Post - 13 Jun 2014 03:49
Movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh wanted to upend all the rules of Tinseltown when he established Relativity Media 10 years ago. Now he wants to cure cancer. The bubbly 39-year-old billionaire...
Russia Offers Ukraine Improbable Gas Deal
Forbes - 13 Jun 2014 03:31
Russia says Ukraine will get a nice cut in gas prices, providing it dishes out $2 billion in back payments first.
Lockheed Martin to pull employees out of Iraq over safety concerns
L.A. Times - 13 Jun 2014 02:44S&P Raises Outlook on UK by a Notch to 'Stable'
ABC News - 13 Jun 2014 23:57
Standard & Poor's sees better times ahead for UK as long as country stays in European Union
Appeals court: Labor Dept violated law
Miami Herald - 13 Jun 2014 23:56
The Labor Department violated federal law when it lowered wages and worsened working conditions in the herding industry without notice or comment, an appeals court ruled Friday.
4 upstate casino proposals receive local approval
Miami Herald - 13 Jun 2014 23:56
Four more upstate New York casino proposals have received approval from local officials.
Fantasia: Music Evolved would be great -- if it worked
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2014 23:44
Harmonix's new music game is fun, but the Kinect fails it.
A huge hit in New York City, Swift is now going to bootcamp
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2014 23:28
Apple's new Swift language is going to bootcamp.