New York Times:
German law enforcement officials arrested 17 on Friday in connection with what was described as the biggest match-fixing scandal yet uncovered in European soccer.
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New York Times:
History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
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New York Times:
History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
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New York Times:
History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
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feeds.wsjonline.com:
Anyone who has watched Tim Lincecum pitch for the San Francisco Giants should have no difficulty justifying the fact that the 25-year-old mega-ace just won his second straight National League Cy Young Award. With a slight build, a haircut that isn’t really a haircut per se, and a strange, violent motion, Lincecum is fascina (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Magazine advertising has plunged off a a cliff, as this chart from the Awl demonstrates.See also: The Awl's newspaper ad decline chart.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:22 Magazines Are Actually Kicking Butt In 2009The Business Insider Will Be Bought By Huge Media Company For More Than Fortune Magazine -- The (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The hot story in tech right now is "real-time," thanks to Twitter and Facebook, so you're going to hear a lot of noise over the next few years about "real-time" tech startups. Most of them will be useless and will flame out.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Salesforce Shows Off Chatter: Twitter For Corporations (CRM)Her (Read More)
New York Times:
Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
CAIRO — Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.Egyptian fans – and the country's media – have been thrown into a frenzy over reports that Algerians attacked and (Read More)
New York Times:
FRANKFURT (AP) -- German prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
You know the five or six really successful Facebook app and game makers?Zynga, Slide, RockYou, Playdom, Playfish and all of their competitors?Read the rest of this story »See Also:How Smaller Facebook Game Developers Can Compete With The Big ThreeFacebook Worth $9.5 BillionFacebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Sc (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Mexico's economy was on the mend in the third quarter, with a year-over-year contraction coming in less than anticipated by analysts, as well as growth from the previous quarter. Gross domestic product contracted 6.2% in the third quarter from the same period a year ago, according to Inegi, Mexi (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
MILWAUKEE — A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement. Now a Wisconsin law firm is trying a n (Read More)
Huffington Post:
At the Ad Council Annual Dinner Wednesday night, "30 Rock" creator Tina Fey brought back her famous impersonation of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin."Mrs. Palin and I continue to have so much in common," she said. "They recently made a porn movie about Sarah and then this same porn actress, Lisa Ann, played me in a parod (Read More)