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Zynga’s Quest for Big-Spending Whales – BusinessWeek
Image via CrunchBase On July 1, Zynga filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $1 billion in a sure-to-be blockbuster initial public offering. To investors immune to ominous...
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Spotify’s Daniel Ek: The Most Important Man In Music – Forbes
Spotify’s Daniel Ek created a free, Facebook-enabled platform that could save the recording industry from piracy–and iTunes. It’s a typically damp, dark November afternoon in Stockholm, and Daniel Ek...
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Social Media Trends Spawn Sentiment Analysis – Bloomberg
The torrent of posts on Twitter Inc. last year about Netflix Inc. (NFLX) might have tipped off investors to stock swings that erased about $8 billion from the movie-rental company’s market value in...
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Mystery shopper catches out retailers | BUSINESS News
A consumer watchdog group says some retailers are misleading consumers about their legal rights with extended warranties. Consumer NZ‘s deputy chief executive David Naulls said selling extended...
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Knights, Pirates, Trees Flock to Facebook
Mascots and Other Embodiments of Corporations Make a Comeback in Order to Tweet and Interact A new marketing campaign for StubHub, the ticket-resale website, stars a 25-foot-high animatronic talking...
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Coffee prices get jolt in jittery economy – Business – CBC News
The slowing global economy is having an effect on the price of coffee, as cash conscious consumers ditch their latte habits in favour of plain old cups of joe. The two most commonly produced varieties...
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Flying Hello Kitty’s Friendly and Cutesy Skies – Businessweek
After a young Asian-American from San Francisco flew his seventh Hello Kitty flight, EVA Airways (2618:TT) recently awarded him a solid gold boarding pass bearing the design of Sanrio’s (8136:JP)...
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Zynga’s weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious – Yahoo! News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Zynga Inc’s inexorable decline over the past six months, capped by a sharp reduction in its 2012 outlook on Thursday, has sharpened interest in what Chief Executive Mark...
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BBC News – Cafe creatives: The hubs tempting Dubai entrepreneurs
Slinging a small backpack onto the desk, Will Hutson says good morning to colleagues and pulls out his laptop. But before chat about the day’s work progresses, somebody suggests ordering coffee –...
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RIP Larry Hagman: “Dallas” Oilman J.R. Ewing Had A Passion For Solar Energy –...
Larry Hagman may have played television’s most famous evil oil baron, J.R. Ewing, but in real life the “Dallas” actor was a fierce proponent of solar energy. In July 2010 I interviewed Hagman, who...
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