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  • DealBook Column But Wait. Didn’t Yahoo Try a Deal Like This Before

    Yahoo bought the company for $3.6 billion. When Yahoo announced its headline-grabbing acquisition, it boasted that the deal gave it access to an "unduplicated" audience of users and that its target was a "popular personal publishing" platform. "Yahoo will be able to integrate and distribute a powerful set of state-of-the-art editing tools and content published through ...

  • Oil Prices Dip to Around $96.50 as Supplies Weigh

    U.S. crude futures eased to about $96.50 a barrel in early trading in Asia on Tuesday as ample supplies weighed on prices, despite support from equity ...

  • SoftBank grants waiver for Sprint to talk more to Dish

    The Japanese wireless carrier is letting its rival Dish go into further talks with Sprint, saying that "we are providing this waiver because we are confident in the value of our ...

  • Tough Cat B15 Android phone marks U.S. debut

    Cat B15 Android smartphone is the newest entrant to the U.S.' rough and ready durable phone tussle. I got my hands on the B15 this past March when it first appeared on the world stage at Mobile World Congress. This U.S. variant is essentially the same handset, except for the cellular support -- AWS bands 1700/2100 to complement GSM 850/1900 support. There's no launch date yet, since ...

  • Google breach may have led to sensitive data leaks

    Chinese hackers were blamed for breaking into Google's servers in 2010; now, U.S. officials say these cyberattacks may have led to the release of secret government ...


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Lawless [Blu-Ray]

John Hillcoats Lawless is set in the boozy-sleazy backwoods of Virginia at the height of Prohibition, when the hillsides were lit at night by burning stills and the local police didnt just look the other way, but actively participated in bootlegging. The pulp fictional screenplay by Nick ... ...

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  • UPDATE 1-Sprint gets waiver from Softbank permitting discussions with Dish

    Mon May 20, 2013 9:02pm EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Wireless service provider Sprint Nextel Corp received a waiver from SoftBank Corp on various provisions of their merger agreement permitting it to engage in discussions with Dish Network Corp. Satellite TV service Dish made a $25.5 billion counter bid last month for Sprint against SoftBank's October agreement to pay $20.1 billion for 70 percent ...

  • Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school

    Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ...

  • Yahoo reboots Flickr offers 1 terabyte of storage

    Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ...

  • How Apple sidestepped U.S. taxes The Senates version

    "The hearing will examine how Apple Inc., a U.S. multinational corporation, has used a variety of offshore structures, arrangements, and transactions to shift billions of dollars in profits away from the United States and into Ireland, where Apple has negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than two percent. One of Apple's more unusual tactics has been to establish and direct ...

  • Apple set for DC tax fight

    Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill Tuesday amid harsh criticism following a Senate ...

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