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Ben Roethlisberger earned ultimate bragging rights -- a winning ring and the iconic Milk Mustache to match. He chose milk as his MVP and scored his very own ad that runs in USA Today on February 2. (Read More)
Trips 2 Fun
The Groundhog Day forecast is in: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather. Thousands of visitors gathered in Punxsutawney, in the heart of the Pennsylvania Wilds, to witness Phil's annual prognostication. (Read More)
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Music legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Paul McCartney will appear as a guest on COMEDY CENTRAL's Emmy(R) and Peabody(R) Award-winning "The Colbert Report" on Wednesday, January 28 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT. McCartney's appearance will be his first and only scheduled U.S. late-night appearance in support of the new a (Read More)
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JetBlue Airways Corporation will waive change fees and fare differences to allow customers booked for travel to, from or through New York metro airports or Boston's Logan International Airport on Wednesday, January 28 to voluntarily rebook their travel through Thursday, January 29 due to inclement weather forecasted to impa (Read More)
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Microsoft Corp. has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects, the Magic Quadrant for New Systematic (Read More)
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Panasonic today introduced the LUMIX DMC-TS1, the world's first(*1) waterproof, shockproof and dustproof digital camera(*2) to also feature AVCHD Lite High Definition (HD) video recording capabilities(*3). The TS1's tough and rugged design makes it the ideal choice for active users needing the ultimate hybrid for capturing (Read More)
PR Newswire: Acquisitions/Mergers
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) confirms it has informed Rohm and Haas that Dow will not close the proposed acquisition on or before January 27, 2009. (Read More)
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Caterpillar announced record sales and revenues of $51.324 billion for 2008, up 14 percent from 2007. Profit per share was $5.66, up 5 percent and profit after tax of $3.557 billion was about flat with 2007. The company also reported record fourth-quarter sales and revenues of $12.923 billion, 6 percent higher than the four (Read More)
PR 2.0
I recently discussed the viability of Twitter evolving beyond a micro community into a standardized platform for macro conversations. It's certainly the path Facebook is traversing and both are making significant progress in the race to syndicate and aggregate the discussions that are important to us within our respective s (Read More)
: @thomaspower agreed! Although as @kadesoto has said before now we need to be able to focus the feed better, otherwise it is still a river of information even if is has been selected and approved by our smartest 1000 friends.
Perhaps a feature where I can see something which you, @scobleizer and @louisgray liked, that way I get the good articles from the Blogosphere and all Louis' baby photos. ;)
: With all do respect to Brian, this conversation has been hashed out well over 6 months ago. Unfortunately, FriendFeed hasn't capitalized on the initial wave like I thought it would...
PR Newswire: Earnings
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $16.63 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2008, a 2% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.94 billion, $4.17 billion and $0.47, declines of 8%, 11% and 6%, respectively, compar (Read More)
LifeSciencesWorld
Johnson & Johnson today announced sales for the year 2008 of $63.7 billion, an increase of 4.3% over 2007. Operational growth was 1.9% with currency contributing 2.4%. Domestic sales decreased 0.4%, while international sales increased 9.7%, reflecting operational growth of 4.6% and a positive currency impact of 5.1%. Worldw (Read More)
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Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that it will show new technology that links salesforce.com's and IBM's flagship SaaS offerings to help customers take full advantage of cloud computing. At IBM's Lotusphere event, salesforce.com will showcase how customers can bring togethe (Read More)
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T.G.I. Friday's restaurants (www.fridays.com) today announced final plans for the "World's Largest Inauguration Party" which it will host at more than 920 restaurants in 62 countries around the world all day on Tuesday, January 20.
Party Link: www.tgifridays.com/inauguration/party2008.aspx. (Read More)
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Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) now owns the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed PoxNora online collectible strategy game and the other key assets for future game development from Tucson-based Octopi, LLC. As part of the acquisition, members of the Octopi development team will form the core of SOE's new Tucson studio, (Read More)
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Retail workers across New York City are struggling to make ends meet due to stagnantly low wages and limited health benefits according to a Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) (http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/) report released today during one of the bleakest holiday shopping seasons in memory. Recent job losses in the retail sector (Read More)
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