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02 Sep 2010 21:21

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Tech: Copyright owners use YouTube ads as a backdoor into ¢A$H

  • 2 billion views of YouTube videos with ads every single week
  • 14% the percentage of total weekly views on YouTube each week ad-supported videos make up – a small chunk, but definitely still a lot
  • 33% of those videos (or more) are clips which are copyright violations that the owners have chosen to make money from source
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23 Mar 2010 20:41

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Biz: Obama’s pay czar to bailed-out firms: Time for another pay cut!

  • 15% average pay cuts for highly-paid workers at bailed-out firms
  • 33% average pay cuts for their non-stock cash payments source
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12 Nov 2009 09:46

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Biz: Intel stops being a jerk to AMD, pays out a bunch of money

  • $1.25 billion in let-this-go settlement money source
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18 Sep 2009 11:39

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Culture: Michael Jackson’s estate is giving lots of cash to his mom and kids

  • $86,000 monthly allowance; holy crap source
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14 Aug 2009 22:53

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Biz, U.S.: It’s Friday. Guess it’s time for more banks to fail.

  • five number of banks that failed today, including the fairly huge Colonial Bank
  • 77 number of banks that have failed this year, which is far too common right now source
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15 Apr 2009 04:18

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Biz, U.S.: Goldman Sachs: Here’s your bailout money back. We don’t need it.

  • $10 billion amount the company returned to the federal government recently
  • $5
    billion     amount they raised via stock sales to pay the U.S. back source
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20 Mar 2009 10:04

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Biz: Whoa. Wal-Mart handed out AIG-style bonuses to the cashiers!

  • $933 million in bonuses were handed out by the mega-retailer. Unlike AIG, we want them to hand these out.
  • $667 per person the average cash bonus for each Wal-Mart employee – including part-timers at their stores. source
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23 Feb 2009 22:24

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U.S.: MS to laid-off employees: You know what? Keep the extra cash.

  • MS has a change of heart. After being seen as heartless by sending letters like these to former employees, the Windows maker has changed its mind about asking for that severance money back. In case you’re wondering, MS, nobody will complain if you decide to take back Vista. Or Songsmith. source
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