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Google's Chromebooks Were The Best Selling Laptops At Amazon, Beating Windows...
Google's Chromebooks were two of the three best selling laptops at Amazon this holiday season. Chromebooks are super cheap laptops that are based entirely on the Chrome browser. You need an Internet...
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'The Wolf Of Wall Street' Was An Amazing Movie With An Important Moral Message
I saw "The Wolf Of Wall Street" yesterday. I don't know how to write a proper movie review, so I'll just say a few quick things.The first is that it was an incredibly entertaining Martin Scorsese...
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The Ex-Chief Economist Of China's Official Stats Bureau Says The Country's...
China's banking system is not without its problems.The largest state-owned banks are known to favor state-owned enterprises when lending money. Meanwhile, households earn very low interest on their...
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Check Out What Happened To Rap Genius After Google Decided To Crush It (GOOG)
Check out what happened to Rap Genius's traffic after Google wiped it from search results.On Monday, Rap Genius had 1,376,535 unique visitors. On Wednesday, two days after Google started knocking Rap...
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The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To New Year's Resolutions
Exercise more. Drink less. Travel. Save money. These are your unoriginal regurgitated New Year’s resolutions. And they are getting pretty tiresome, especially considering the vast majority of you never...
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CHART: Tony Romo's Numbers Compare Very Well To The NFL's Best Quarterbacks
When the Cowboys take on the Eagles in their winner-take-all game on Sunday, they will likely do so without one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL as Tony Romo is not expected to play.Using Adjusted...
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Controversial Judge Orders Grown Man To Write 'Boys Do Not Hit Girls' 5,000...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Montana judge who said a teen rape victim appeared "older than her chronological age" has sentenced a man convicted of punching his girlfriend to write "Boys do not hit...
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11% Of Online Shoppers Are Naked (PYPL)
According to a poll by PayPal, 11% of people do their online shopping wearing nothing but the air that touches their skin, we learn via Internet Revolution.The poll sampled 4,524 consumers between the...
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MAP: The Most Passionate Soccer Nations In Europe
Redditor Tuttle_not_Buttle did some math on attendance at European soccer domestic league matches and made this map of the most passionate soccer nations on the continent.The ranking is based on the...
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Amazing China-Hong Kong Smuggling Tunnel May Have Cost $500,000 To Build
Smugglers from China's Guangdong province and Hong Kong have been getting inventive recently.Just this week a nearly-complete tunnel was discovered that began in a parking lot in Shenzhen, Guangdong...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Stories Of The Year In Digital Payments, Including The Rise Of Uber
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. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every...
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Casual Sex App DOWN Is Working On A Klout-Like Score To Show How 'Bangable'...
Down, the hook-up app formerly known as Bang With Friends, is working on a feature that will show its users how "bangable" they are.The Bangability Score will work a lot like Klout. But instead of...
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Forget The Twerking Girl — These Were The Best Viral YouTube Videos
With the advent of amazing technology comes a seemingly infinite opportunity to create something viral that could set the Internet on its axis at any time. In 2013 alone we experienced at least 50...
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'Fresh Prince' Producer Dies While Jogging At Age 54
“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” producer and "Above The Rim" writer-director Jeffrey Pollack died Monday while jogging on Hermosa Beach, outside of Los Angeles, at age 54.Pollack, who also directed the...
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The Italian Distributor Of '12 Years A Slave' Has Pulled Its Posters...
Earlier this week, the world became aware of an Italian promotional poster for the film "12 Years A Slave" that highlighted actor Brad Pitt, even though he has only a minor role in the film. Meanwhile,...
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Investors Will Have To Be A Lot Smarter About Their Emerging Market...
2013 was a rough year for the emerging markets. When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first hinted in May that the Fed would soon begin tapering its stimulative quantitative easing program, many...
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In Egypt, Posting This Symbol On Facebook Can Now Get You 5 Years In Prison
Egypt has passed a law that could sentence anyone who posts this symbol on their Facebook page to five years in prison, according to Arabcrunch and Sharouk News.Egyptian athletes expected to compete in...
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US Oil Production Just Hit A 25-Year High
The Great American shale boom rolls on.U.S. oil production is now at levels last seen in September of 1988, according to new EIA data.The four-week average climbed to 8,041,000 barrels a day, or about...
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Inside Huaxi, The Mysterious 'Richest Village In China'
The man who founded Huaxi, known as "the richest village in China," passed away this year in March.But the sleepy farming community he helped turn into a Communist utopia still claims to be as strong...
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