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What if it cost $17 to make a 15-minute phone call in the U.S.? How often would you call home? That's the dilemma facing many inmates who must rely on the prison phone service and pay sky high rates. A bipartisan group of prison reformers is...(more)
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NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc.’s stock shot up more than $4, or about 10%, to about $42 a share in the first few minutes after its public Wall Street debut Friday.
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Fiat workers notice a Street View car filming in their area. So one staff member decides to drive right up to the door of VW's nearby headquarters and park a Fiat 500 there. The Street View car photographs it. [Read more]
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#facebook Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today.More »
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook stock is rising more than10 percent in the world's biggest online social network's debut as a publicly traded company....
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#wishyouwerehere You spend days at work in the studio, cranking out track after track with your trusty MIDI controller. On a whim, you decide you're tired of using it, so you wad it up into a ball, throw it away, and draw a new one....(more)
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I had planned to put a video together about "choosing a school for your children" to test out TED-Ed. However, my eight-year-old daughter caught wind of what I was doing and wanted to get in on the act. To cut a long story short my highly...(more)
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The United States hit Chinese solar companies with punitive import tariffs of 30 percent or more on Thursday, ruling they had dumped cut-price solar panels into the U.S. market. In the latest salvo in a series of ongoing trade disputes between Beijing and Washington, the U.S....(more)
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President Barack Obama's chief spokesman on Thursday denounced as "divisive" a reported plan by a conservative super PAC to assail President Barack Obama with ads featuring his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Press secretary Jay Carney also stressed that the president's focus remained the struggling economy. "To...(more)
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SAO PAULO (AP) -- A federal judge has sentenced a former law student to 17 months in prison for using Twitter to incite prejudice and discrimination against people from Brazil's impoverished northeast....
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(Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.
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(Reuters) - Human Genome Sciences Inc said on Thursday it adopted a stockholder rights plan as the biotechnology company defends itself against a $2.6 billion (1.6 billion pounds) hostile takeover bid by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline Plc . Human Genome said its board determined the bid by...(more)
