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FilmSharks diversifies into trailers
Weekly Music and Technology: Company ties up to do work on Woody Allen pic -- The indie biz is tough all over, and FilmSharks Intl., an international film sales company out of Latin America, is gaining dividends from a diversification drive into ...
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Valerie Plame: The Power of Zero
We may not precisely know the scale of the illicit trafficking in fissile materials, but we do know that rogue salesmen are peddling nuclear technology on the black market. The enterprising father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, A.Q. Khan, hawked his ...
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Chevrolet's Battery-Powered Volt Now on Sale in US
Volt to cost $41,000 minus $7,500 tax credit, making it cost competitive with other electric, hybrid vehicles in US
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Facebook Said to Put Off IPO Until 2012 to Buy Time for Growth
Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Video Game That Teaches Microbiology Wows Hardcore Gamers, Earns Top Reviews
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team of scientists, middle-schoolers and software developers have partnered with Wake Forest University to create an educational video game that has gone toe-to-toe with some of the best ...
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Zimbabwe tobacco sales surpass 100 mln kgs
Zimbabwe's tobacco deliveries to the auction floors last week surpassed the 100 million-kg mark for the first time in eight years. There is now renewed hope that the deliveries could reach the new target of 114 million kg that was set by the ...
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GM's Chevy Volt Production To Be Boosted By 50 Percent To Meet Demand
DETROIT General Motors said Friday that it is boosting production capacity for its new Chevrolet Volt due to strong public interest in the electric car that goes on sale this year.GM will now have a production capacity of 45,000 vehicles in 2012, .
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People Efficiently Explore the Solution Space of the Computationally Intractable Traveling Salesman Problem to Find Near-Optimal Tours
Humans need to solve computationally intractable problems such as visual search, categorization, and simultaneous learning and acting, yet an increasing body of evidence suggests that their solutions to instantiations of these problems are near ...
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Satellite backhaul is on the rise; T-Mobile's G1 is no longer for sale
Quick news from around the Web@FierceWireless : AT&T to be "premier" Windows Phone 7 carrier? Take that #Verizon . Article . | Follow @FierceWireless> Research firm NSR said the satellite backhaul market made tremendous gains from wireless ...
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Honda's Profits Rise by $3 Billion
Zacks.com submits: Honda Motor Co. ( HMC ) posted a profit of 272.5 billion ($3.1 billion) for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2011 that rose remarkably by 264.9 billion ($3 billion) from 7.6 billion ($85 million) in the same quarter of the
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Nintendo DS sales crashing in light of iPod
Nintendo on Thursday faced its first loss in two years as its own lineup and competition from Apple hurt its business. The company lost the equivalent of $288.5 million after DS sales were cut in half from 5.97 million a year ago to just 3.15 million ...
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Telecom gets $75m for AAPT consumer sale
Telecom has quit part of its Australian business with the sale of its retail business to rival iiNet.The A$60 million ($75 million) deal will see iiNet buy AAPT's consumer division complete with 200,000 broadband and phone customers.It...
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The Stanley Cup Winners Lost Money
Chicago Blackhawks: The Stanley Cup champs set team records for merchandise sales last season but ultimately lost money. The club wont say just how much they lost, but heres a clue theyre jacking up ticket prices by 20 percent next season.
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Did The Americans With Disabilities Act Work?
Why liberal sentimentalism on the A.D.A. isn't an argument for its success.
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New iMacs expected to boost all-in-one PC sales
Apples iMac has stood as a prime example of all-in-one desktop design since its inception. When the current iMac design, which hides the entire computer behind the display, debuted rivals ridiculed Apple. Today, all major PC vendors keep all-in-ones ...
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Microsoft's Stump Speech: We're Leading the Cloud Parade
Larry Dignan ( ZDNet ) submits: Microsofts operating chief Kevin Turner on Thursday set out to position the software giant as a cloud computing leader with a broad portfolio that rivals such as Google ( GOOG ), Salesforce.com ( CRM ), Amazon ( AMZN ..
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3 Social Sites for Demonstrating Your Business Acumen
From Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable: In order to positively impact the bottom line through social media, small business owners should look beyond the sales pitch. Today's savvy business owner maintains a social media presence among other online ...
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Colgate Needs to Brush Up a Little
Caris & Co. downgraded the consumer-goods giant to Average.
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Steam weekend sale: Half off Just Cause 2 and DLC
If drifting through the skies of a remote tropical paradise sounds like your kind of a weekend getaway, head on over to Steam and grab the latest sale: 50% off Just Cause 2. The sandbox action adventure title puts you in control of Rico Rodriguez, an ...
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Japan Is Exporting Itself Out Of Carmageddon
Motorvehicle production in Japan was up 25.9 percent from a year earlier in June, says the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association via The Nikkei [sub] Domestic sales are a bit more sedate, up 17.4 percent in June. Where did all those cars go?They ...
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How Amway weathered the storm, one sale at a time
Don't be fooled into thinking that direct sales are a thing of the past just because you haven't seen a pink Mary Kay Cadillac in a while. Amway is not only still alive and well, it's actually growing, even as many retailers continue to struggle.
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Making tracks: All in the frill of the chase
Posing as a saleswoman, wearing fancy dress and apprehending murderers is all in a day's work for bounty hunter Gina Kennedy.
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Even Steven: Will the SEC's Iron Bowl Ticket Sales Be Split Fifty-Fifty?
Recently, there has been discussion about possible minor changes that could be made to one of college football's most intense rivalry games: The Iron Bowl.One of the problems people see with the SEC's historic Iron Bowl game between the University of ...
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Travel fitness: Top 10 spots for yoga around the world
Filed under: North America , India , Mexico , United States , Middle East You can run, walk, hike, climb, swim, surf, and scuba your way to new experiences, but even the most active traveler needs a brief moment of zen every now and again. For those ...
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Miami Home Sales Surged in June
Home sales in the Miami region jumped in June, spurred by low prices, low mortgage rates and what was likely the final big boost from the federal home buyer tax credits
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RBS Plans Asset Sales
Royal Bank of Scotland Group is likely to announce two asset sales worth up to a total of $6.71 billion as early as Tuesday, as it continues efforts to shrink its balance sheet.
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Foreign Forces Transform U.S. Films
The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.
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Houston Astros Continue Fire Sale Trade Lance Berkman To The Yankees
Various media sources are reporting the New York Yankees have acquired Lance Berkman from the Houston Astros to be their DH.This is clearly in reaction to the Phillies acquiring Roy Oswalt, as they don't want to look as though they did nothing during ...
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Beyonce Turns Up the Heat With a Sizzling New Scent
Courtesy Coty; Getty Her debut scent rang in over $3 million in record-breaking sales during its first month alone at Macysand now Beyonc is upping the Heat index again with a new flanker to the fragrance. The singer has just announced plans
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News: Lost Planet 2 "substantially underperformed" - Capcom
Monster Hunter Tri sales "sluggish".Capcom has revealed that Lost Planet 2 "underperformed its projection substantially", Monster Hunter Tri "grew at a sluggish pace" and Ghost Trick "struggled". ...
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