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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SURGES, BUT FALLS SHORT OF ESTIMATES
The final results of the University of Michigan's monthly consumer confidence survey are out.The headline index surged to 82.5, matching preliminary estimates published earlier this month.However,...
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The 18 Best GIFs From This Week's NFL Games
Week 16 of the NFL season is nearly over. While we wait for the Monday Night Football game, let's take another look back at the best highlights from Sunday's action.This week's collection includes Tom...
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Samsung's New Smart TVs Will Have 'Finger Gestures' That Let You Change The...
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show next month, Samsung announced a few of the new features it will add to its line of Internet-connected Smart TVs.Samsung won't formally show off the new Smart TVs...
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Social Media Is Starting To Become Competitive With Search As A Source Of...
Social media is finally becoming competitive with search in terms of e-commerce conversion rates. Our thesis is supported by Monetate's third quarter report, which is based on a random sample of over...
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A Bronx Family Has Turned Their Home Into A Celebrity-Filled 'Christmas...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Garabedian family's famed Christmas House in the Bronx.Family matriarch Nelly Garabedian, a former seamstress, wanted to turn her simple family home into a...
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Rex Ryan Threw A Huge Temper Tantrum On The Sidelines
New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan threw a huge temper tantrum in the Jets' game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.After Geno Smith ran out of bounds, it appeared that a Browns defender delivered a...
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A 'PayPal For Businesses' Promises To Completely Transform The Way Companies...
Welcome to our new Payments Insights newsletter, a morning email with the top news and analysis on the digital payments industry, produced by BI Intelligence. Click here to sign up for Payment Insights...
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This Christmas, All British People Who Want To Watch Porn Will Be Forced To...
This will be the strangest Christmas ever for millions of British households as a new law goes into effect forcing every web user to choose whether they want to be able to access porn on the internet —...
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Rand Paul Is Doing An Epic 'Airing Of Grievances' On Twitter
Today is "Festivus," the fake holiday made popular by "Seinfeld" in a classic 1997 episode. To commemorate the occasion, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced this morning on Twitter that he would be...
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Fewer Stocks Are Driving The Market To All-Time Highs
One of the biggest market cliches we've seen in the last few weeks is that, though the bull market rockets forward, it's becoming increasingly a "stock-picker's market."That's market jargon for the...
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There Is Talk Of Boycotting A Firm That Allegedly Took $10 Million To Sell An...
The furore around allegations that computer security firm RSA received $10 million from the NSA to include a non-random encryption code in its software as a default setting are not going away: One of...
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STRONG PICKUP IN EAST COAST MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT THIS MONTH
The results of the Richmond Fed's December manufacturing survey are out.The report's headline index was unchanged from last month's reading at 13.Economists expected it to slide to 10.The unemployment...
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29 Successful People Who Wake Up Really Early
It's no coincidence that so many successful people get up early.The early bird schedule is good for responding to people and events around the world, getting a head start on people in your own time...
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The Rise Of The Part-Time Economy In One Chart
America's labor market has undergone all kinds of transformations following the Great Recession.Among the more worrisome trends: The proportion of full-time jobs to overall jobs has fallen off the...
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The 25 Happiest Companies In America
Employees at Pfizer really love their jobs.The pharmaceutical giant was voted the happiest company in America by its own workers for the second year running, according to an annual survey from job site...
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Check Out Some Of This Year's Best Ad Agency Holiday Cards
Over the years, the tradition of ad agencies sending creative holiday cards to employees, associates, and loved ones adapted significantly for modern technology.Now "holiday card" is a casual term that...
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Duck Dynasty Has Retained All Its Sponsors Despite The Phil Robertson...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Duck Dynasty has retained all of its sponsors in the wake of Phil Robertson's statements about homosexuals and African-Americans, and branded...
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New Home Sales Are Way Above Expectations (ITB, XHB)
New home sales fell 2.1% in November, worse than expectations for a 0.9% fall.But the level came in at an annualized pace of 464,000.This was better than expectations for a fall to an annualized pace...
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Tesla Is Up 7% (TSLA)
Tesla is up 7.2% to $154.07. The stock is rallying after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reaffirmed the green automaker's 5-star safety rating of the "Model S and in all...
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MAP: China Totally Dominates Global Trade
Last year, China leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world's biggest trading nation as measured by total exports and imports of goods.This map from Brendan O'Reilly at Chinese Relations helps put this...
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