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18 Apr 2010 12:12

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Offbeat: If an octopus steals your digital camera, pray you get it back

  • Don’t you just hate it when an Octopus tries to steal your video recording gear? One lucky/unlucky guy had his expensive digital camera nabbed by a quick-moving eight-legged underwater creature, only to recover it. Which means that what could’ve been an entirely too depressing story is now an awesome one complete with video. source
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12 Apr 2010 21:28

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Biz: The stock market reached the other end of the inverted bell curve today

  • 11,005 the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial today, a new peak in a long rebound from the recession
  • 11,143 the closing price on Sept. 26, 2008 – the last time it ended above 11,000 (we blame Lehman Bros.) source
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31 Mar 2010 23:14

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World: Haiti help: The international community should be proud of itself

  • $9.9 billion to help the quake-rocked nation recover source
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10 Mar 2010 10:27

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Tech: Ha! MySpace still has hope of being successful

  • “We do not want to stay at 100 million (users) or 120 million. We want to grow to 200 million or 300 million.” MySpace, which has had a bit of a rough year, with management shakeups all over the place and a significant decline in influence, plans to relaunch its site to focus on media and music. The goal? To recover some of the audience that it lost. They want to be the first social networking site that regains its popularity. Our take: Don’t call it a comeback, because it’s not happening. source
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01 Mar 2010 22:28

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World: Three reasons while Chile will recover quickly from its earthquake

  • one Chile, the world’s 46th-richest country,
    has a much stronger economy than Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
  • two The country has one of the lowest debt to economic output ratios in Latin America, and the government is fairly frugal with spending.
  • three Chile has a massive copper supply, a supply which was barely damaged by the earthquake. They’ll bounce back, guys. source
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18 Jan 2010 10:42

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World: Optimism amid devastation: Survivors still being found in Haiti

After the first 72 hours of a catastrophe of this magnitude, hope of finding survivors is usually lost. They’ve found 60 as of Sunday. source
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17 Jan 2010 10:46

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World: The Sanjay Gupta thing in Haiti, now with more details

  • what? Sanjay Gupta had to spend his Friday night in Haiti helping earthquake survivors after a crew of Belgian doctors left a makeshift hospital to fend for itself overnight. He did a great job.
  • why? Even though Gupta and others were told the UN had made the decision to move doctors out overnight, it was in fact the lead Belgian doctor who had made the questionable decision.
  • next The UN and Belgian government promise to give the doctors security forces to protect themselves from looters, criminals or anyone else in the wake of the earthquake. source
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29 Nov 2009 11:06

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World: Daily poll: Honduras’ first post-coup elections – Manuel Zelaya’s riveted.


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15 Oct 2009 10:53

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Tech: Microsoft and T-Mobile recover most users’ Sidekick data. Hooray!

  • They didn’t save everyone’s data, though. The public backlash created by Microsoft’s mishandling of Sidekick data is a least a little softer after the company announced that they saved most users data. T-Mobile has been getting the brunt of the attacks even though it largely isn’t their fault. Either way, this mess isn’t looking good for the company, which wants to be on the same page as Apple in the mobile sphere. source
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07 Oct 2009 20:17

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Biz, Tech: Google: We made it through the worst of the ad slump just fine

  • The worst is behind us. We’re clearly seeing aspects of recovery, not just in the U.S. but also Europe.
  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt • Speaking to room full of journalists about the state of his company. He says that his company has started to hire again in anticipation of a major rebound. Big question: Will newspapers recover along with Google? • source
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