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Sunday May 19 | MarketWatch

Market Snapshot: Stock rally's breadth is a sign of strength, froth

Similarly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.6% on the week to 15,354.40, its 21st record of the year.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, MarketWatch, Startups, Media, Financial Markets

Tue May 14, 2013

The Beaumont Enterprise

Day in Pictures, May 14, 2013

Wild about Harry: Prince Harry leaves the opposite sex gobsmacked during a seaside tour of areas affected by Superstorm Sandy.

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Related Topix: Media, World News, Prince Harry, Chris Christie, US Governors, Winchester, VA, Science / Technology, Space, Home Gardening, Home, Entertainment

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Peeping drones in Seattle? Report raising privacy worries

Imagine you hear a buzzing, go to your bathroom window on the top floor of your eight-story apartment building and see this A citizen's complaint in a Seattle neighborhood news blog is getting around the Internet and causing some consternation: Can a drone be legally flown over your backyard or right in front of your bedroom window? "This ... (more)

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Related Topix: Media

Thu May 09, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A trip to Mars, with a twist

Starting in the Northwest: Paul Allen. To lead the group . They'll need his forward thinking as director of science.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Media

The Guardian

Zimbabwe: Harare arts festival offers upbeat image of a country in turmoil

Shingai Shoniwa of the Noisettes was among the performers at the Harare International Festival of the Arts.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Media, Getty Images, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural

Wed May 08, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Disappointed by the ROI of social media? Set a 'giving' budget

There's nothing wrong with expecting a positive return on your investment in social media.

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Related Topix: Media, Social Software

MarketWatch

Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks ease after record-setting run

U.S. stocks drifted lower at the open Wednesday as investors took a break after a string of record-setting gains.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Retro Affect, Snapshot, Video Games, Media

Tue May 07, 2013

Forbes.com

Does Google Glass Violate Community Standards?

JULY 12: Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Project Glass prototype glasses at Allen & Company's Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2011 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Sergey Brin, Sun Valley, ID, Media

Mon May 06, 2013

The Washington Post

Mad Men and corporate governance

Well, that was fast. The gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is thinking about taking their advertising firm public, selling shares of the company at $11 each and using the capital to expand more aggressively and try to become one of the big boys on Madison Avenue.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Law, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mad Men, Media, Marketing, Health

Fri May 03, 2013

MetroMix

Heart, fun., Death Cab headline Bumbershoot 2013

Honorees Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart arrive at the 28th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on April 18, 2013, in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Media, Music, Entertainment

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bumbershoot 2013 initial lineup announced

Bumbershoot's initial lineup was announced Friday. Take a look at some of the acts coming to Seattle for Labor Day.

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Related Topix: Media

Forbes.com

A Corporate Retreat Survival Kit

This is a guest post by Wendy S. Goffe , a trusts and estates lawyer with Stoel Rives in Seattle.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Media

Thu May 02, 2013

The Guardian

US calls for immediate release of Kenneth Bae from North Korean jail

State Department says there has been a failure to grant due process but does not confirm is envoy will be sent to Pyongyang Kenneth Bae, a tour operator from Seattle, was accused of attempting to overthrow the government.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, South Korea, Prison, Media

New Statesman

3 July 2000: Does protest need a vision?

May 1, 2005 Very soon, you will hear more of the anti-corporate protest movement that first came to British attention in the "Stop the City" protest on 18 June last year and to world attention on the streets of Seattle last November.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Beltaine, May Day, South Korea, World News, Media

Wed May 01, 2013

Albany Times Union

Amanda Knox says what happened to her was surreal

This photo, taken Nov. 2, 2007, shows Amanda Knox, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito outside the rented house where her 21-year-old roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found with her throat slit.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Prison, Media, University of Washington, Entertainment, Television

Tue Apr 30, 2013

The Guardian

Amanda Knox: 'what happened to me could have happened to anyone'

Amanda Knox , the US student put on trial for the murder of her British flatmate in Italy , has said in her first television interview that her experience could have happened to anyone.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Media

Fri Apr 26, 2013

Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Notches a Patent Victory

The ruling is a turning point in a two-year legal fight over media streaming and Wi-Fi patents and may help put the brakes on rampant patent warfare.

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Related Topix: MarketWatch, Startups, Media

Thu Apr 25, 2013

The Guardian

San Francisco and Seattle lead US cities pulling funds from fossil fuel firms

Pond Creek coal mine, Johnson City, Illinois. Campaigners have targeted pension funds of major cities that invest in coal The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Richmond (San Francisco, CA), Media

Wed Apr 24, 2013

San Jose Mercury News

Google beats Apple in deal for Wavii, which competed with Summly

Google has acquired Wavii, the Seattle-based startup behind a news summarization app, for roughly $30 million in cash, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Apple, Media, Yahoo!

Tue Apr 23, 2013

Switched

Twitter Causes A Flash Crash, Highlighting Market's Structural Problems

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange . An errant tweet from the AP's hacked Twitter account caused a brief flash crash in stocks.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Financial Markets, Media, The Dow Company

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