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07 Nov 2009 14:21

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Tech: Microsoft has lots of reasons to celebrate the Windows 7 launch

  • 234% increase in box software sales over Vista source
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29 Oct 2009 09:57

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Biz: That’s promising: The economy’s starting to grow again

  • 3.5% increase in 3Q gross domestic product; hooray! source
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27 Oct 2009 10:24

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Biz: Home prices are slowly starting to make a comeback

  • 1.2% increase in August – the fourth straight up month source
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23 Oct 2009 12:48

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Biz, U.S.: After August fall, home sales get significantly better in September

  • 9.4% boost in pre-owned home sales from August source
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19 Oct 2009 20:55

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Tech: Now that the PS3 doesn’t cost a month’s rent, people are buying it

  • three years amount of time Sony’s costly PS3 has been on the market; the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii routinely beat its sales numbers
  • $299 (finally) the cost of the PS3 Slim – which allowed Sony to finally win a month in console sales against Nintendo and Microsoft source
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09 Oct 2009 12:22

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Offbeat: Protip: Grow a mustache, earn a little more money

  • +8.2% bigger incomes than those with beards, which kind of ticks us off
  • +4.3% bigger incomes than clean-shaven people; they also spend more source
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08 Oct 2009 22:00

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s starting to (slowly) recover from the recession

  • 521,000 new jobless claims this week, the lowest level since January
  • thirteen months since the last increase in retail; we had one in September source
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02 Oct 2009 18:37

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Culture: Clearly, David Letterman mentioned the scandal for ratings

  • 22% boost in ratings for Letterman’s confession last night source
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30 Sep 2009 09:17

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World: The developing world has a big bill to adapt to climate change

  • $75-$100 billion per year to adapt to major changes in climate expected with global warming
  • 3.6° F rise the expected increase in global temperature over the next 40 years; wear sunscreen source
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24 Sep 2009 08:43

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Biz: Guess it’s the recession: Coupons getting cut out more

  • 23% increase in coupon retention in ’09‘s 1st half source
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