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2 hrs ago | Forbes.com

Bitcoin Comes To SWIFT

Hosted at the palatial and temple-like SWIFT headquarters, this year's TransConstellation Alumni conference featured a mix of panel representatives from both "new" payment approaches and "established" payment players.

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2 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

Gawker Crowdfunds to Buy Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Crack Tape

The U.S. gossip site has so far raised $66,500 on Indiegogo towards the $200,000 required to buy the smartphone video from Somalian drug dealers.

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Related Topix: Drugs

2 hrs ago | Fox News

Your Medical Privacy at Risk

Your health care information including your medical data, history, treatment, even your shopping habits at the pharmacy is the next big frontier in the battle for consumer privacy.

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Related Topix: Privacy, Marketing, Retail, Target, Social Security, Personal Finance

5 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

China Box Office: 'American Dreams' Topples 'Iron Man 3' To Top Weekly Charts

HONG KONG "The fiercest of tigers wouldn't be able to compete with bugs on their own turf." It's a Chinese proverb which Marvel Pictures' executives should know by now, with Iron Man 3 finally surging past an overtly-hyped homegrown drama in ticket sales totals, only to see their march bogged down by yet another much-discussed locally produced ... (more)

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Related Topix: Iron Man 3

10 hrs ago | Ananova

China Spreads Alternative To Us GPS System

Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the US sat nav system.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, GPS

Sun May 19, 2013

Hollywood Reporter

Cannes: 'Catching Fire' Star Sam Claflin Joins Lone Sherfig's 'Posh'

Universal Pictures International takes U.K. and Irish distribution rights to the project based on the British West End hit play by Laura Wade.

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Related Topix: The Host, Max Irons

Ananova

Gran Turismo Wants To Build Real-Life Racer

At a special event to celebrate the title's 15th anniversary, its creator said he hopes the brand will eventually build its own car.

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Related Topix: Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo, SCEA, Coupe, Ford GT, Ford

Myrtle Beach Online

2 men arrested in killing over iPad in Las Vegas

Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Ipad

Ananova

EU To Ban Olive Oil Bottles From Restaurants

The European Commission has declared that only non-refillable, pre-packaged factory bottles with tamperproof lids can be used from 2014.

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The Orlando Sentinel

05/20: Progressions

Ramon Cintron was hired as an employment specialist for the Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program at Goodwill Industries of Central Florida.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Forbes.com

Steve Jobs: 5 (More) Motivational Business Tips

Steve Jobs: 6 Tried-And-True Business Tips , it was difficult to select from the hundreds of motivational comments Mr.

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Related Topix: Steve Jobs

SFGate

PG&E San Bruno costs adding up.

State utility regulators are mulling a proposal - well, several proposals - to slap Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

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Related Topix: Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Bruno, CA

Sat May 18, 2013

Fox News

An Independent Scotland More Vulnerable to Financial Shocks - UK Treasury

An independent Scotland would have an exceptionally large banking sector, compared with the size of the rest of its economy, making it vulnerable to financial shocks and putting Scottish taxpayers at significant risk in the event of the country being hit by another banking crisis, the U.K. Treasury said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom

Fox News

Former BMO Analyst to Pay C$1.2 Million to Settle Insider-Trading Charges

A former investment-banking analyst at a unit of Bank of Montreal agreed to pay a total of 1.2 million Canadian dollars among other penalties to settle insider-trading charges, as Canada's biggest securities regulators continue to clamp down on inappropriate trading activity.

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Related Topix: Bank of Montreal, Banking, Financial Services, US Securities and Exchange Commission

The Modesto Bee

Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album

Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music." Mason said Thursday on his blog that he recently spent a week in Los Angeles and recorded a collection of seven songs called "Hardly Workin'." Mason said he wants to present business wisdom to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Groupon

Hollywood Reporter

Cannes: Worldview Options Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe Pic 'Blond'

CAA packaged the project and is representing domestic rights, while Wild Bunch is shopping the project to foreign buyers in Cannes.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Marilyn Monroe, Vocal

The Modesto Bee

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, CA

Hollywood Reporter

Casting Call: 'Tomorrowland,' 'Transcendence' Add Actors

George Clooney, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie are the stars in the movie that has a release date of Dec.

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Related Topix: Ambient, Tomorrowland, The Switch, Celebrities, Jason Bateman

Fri May 17, 2013

Reuters

U.S. FCC nominee Wheeler to divest telecoms holdings if confirmed

Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.

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Related Topix: Federal Communications Commission, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Wireless

TheStreet.com

Food Trends At Their Freshest in San Diego

After one bite, however, I knew my taste buds had landed on one of my favorite new spring dishes in San Diego.

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Related Topix: Dining, Life, Food, Seafood

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