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Monday, April 8, 2013 - 10:12am
With Cleveland Plain Dealer Delivery Cuts, Are Newspapers a Dying Breed?
The Cleveland Plain Dealer said Thursday that it plans to trim home delivery to three days a week, starting this summer. As part of the move the paper announced it would cut more than a third of its staff of over 160 people. Unlike other papers in the privately owned Advance Publications group...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 9:09am
Estee Lauder Primps Chinese Customers with Osiao
China is receiving the royal treatment from many companies as of late, and Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) is no exception. The make-up and fragrance brand is set to introduce a beauty line called "Osiao" in Asia beginning this October. According to The New York Times, Osiao will become the 13th brand of...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 8:59am
Google's Advertising to Steal Facebook's Spotlight
Following news that Twitter will begin ramping up advertising efforts, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) now has another website fighting to surpass the largest social network in display advertisements. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is poised to rake in about 15.4 percent of display ad profits in 2012 alone, beating...
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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 8:49am
Royal Dutch Shell Forced to Pause Arctic Drilling Once Again
In order to avoid what could become another accident of BP (NYSE: BP) proportions, Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) will be unable to drill oil wells in the Arctic this year as safety equipment necessary to the project has been damaged during testing. According to The Globe and Mail,...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 8:40am
Amazon's New Shipping Plans May Cause Trouble for Kindle
Just as Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos confirmed that the company is likely to go up against competitor eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) in delivering some products in one day, supply chain sources are stating that Kindle Paperwhite shipments could be in trouble. According to...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 8:39am
Foxconn Could Ruin Apple's Special Event
Once again, the world's most valuable company has found itself at the center of labor law controversy. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its China-based manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology are being questioned when it comes to the use of vocational students in factory plants. According to The New York...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 8:56am
IBM Grows Business with Spending Spree
It's good to be International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) this week, as the company not only announced that it will likely be making a large acquisition in the near future, but it will also introduce a new line of mainframe computers on Tuesday that will ensure customers are using up-to-date and...
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Monday, August 13, 2012 - 8:45am
Olympics May Not Produce Continuous Ratings Gold for NBC
Although the Olympics are known to bring in hundreds of millions of viewers every four years, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) may have banked too heavily on promoting NBC programs throughout the competition. According to The New York Times, NBC will be unable to maintain its currently high ratings from the...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 12:21pm
Investors to Receive $2 Billion Back From Bacon's Macro Fund
Prominent head of Moore Capital Management Louis Bacon has decided to return $2 billion to investors. His assessment is the company, which has total assets of $15 billion, cannot perform up to its 23 year average return of 18.8 percent in the prevailing tumultuous political and economic climate...
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Apple's iTunes to Face Amazonian Competition
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 1:50pm
Although many have heard about Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Cloud music player, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes platform still tends to dominate the music-player industry. A new "scan and match" feature is ready to change all that, as it has enabled Amazon to put its music service up against the...
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