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Fortune 500: Top 10 companies in 2013
Fortune has released its annual list of the largest corporations in the United States, and there were a few notable changes in this year’s group. Here are the Top 10.
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World's five largest companies
For the first time in nearly a decade, the world’s five largest public companies are all American affair These are the Top 5, as of mid-April 2013.
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'Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World': 6 lessons for being polite with technology
Daniel Post Senning, the great-great-grandson of the original grand dame of etiquette, Emily Post, offers updated advice in 'Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World.'
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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home
Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
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Top 5 greatest Super Bowl ads
In addition to football, Super Bowl XLVII will bring a new crop of ads to rate, discuss, and chuckle over Monday morning. But while several Super Bowl ads hold our attention for hours or days, very few stand the test of time. Here are five that do, from special frogs to an iconic ad from a master director. Can you guess which ad took the (highly subjective) top spot? Did we miss your all-time favorite?
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Stocks slide as impasse over budget deficit looms
Stocks fell sharply Wednesday despite a signal from the Federal Reserve that it could launch a program to speed job growth.
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Report: McAfee founder hiding from Belize police, claims innocence in killing
Wired says McAfee called a reporter on Monday to say he was hiding from police who want to question him about the death his neighbor, whose body was found on Sunday
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Horizons Acer to Microsoft: Hardware is our game, stick to software
An Acer exec has compared hardware manufacturing to a tough meal – and speculated that Microsoft may find it difficult to chew.
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Apple, Amazon earnings misses could rattle market
Apple posts a rare miss on earnings but beats analysts' earnings expectations. Amazon disappoints on both counts, which could sour the market's mood.
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With Windows 8, Microsoft seeks to re-imagine PC industry
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the new Surface tablet and the Windows 8 operating system will shake up the ailing PC market.
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Windows 8 could baffle, perplex customers (+video)
Windows 8 represents a radical departure from previous Microsoft operating systems, one that some early users have found frustrating.
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Google could disappear in five years. Here's why.
Could Google really go the way of Yahoo!, which was once dominant in search? One analyst thinks so, because its weak earnings reflect the larger problem of generating ad revenue from mobile traffic.
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Horizons Google's lackluster earnings report leaks early, sending stock into a slump
Google mistakingly released its third-quarter earnings report several hours early. And the results? Not good.
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Microsoft earnings: a miss. Its new era? Unclear.
Missing profit expectations, Microsoft looks to Oct. 26 launch of Windows 8. But skepticism is growing that Microsoft's 'new era' will propel slumping PC sales.
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Chapter & Verse Amazon: breaking even on popular Kindle sales
In an interview with the BBC, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed what many surmised: Amazon is selling the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD at cost.
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Stocks up despite Hewlett-Packard plunge
Stocks rose slightly Wednesday despite a drop in energy stocks and Hewlett-Packard's 13 percent drop in stock price.
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Change Agent One solution to Palestine's economic problems? Export bits and bytes
The technology sector, which simply requires an Internet connection, is free of the border restraints that most other Palestinian industries experience.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with Medvedev in Russia
Russia's communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead open a research center in Moscow. Zuckerberg was visiting Russia on a world tour of programming contests to identify new talent.
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Staples speeds up store closures, focuses online
Staples is speeding up plans to close stores in the US and elsewhere, planning to invest more in online and mobile efforts. Staples says the moves are part of a strategy to better serve customers and accelerate growth.
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Horizons iPhone 5 sales top 5 million, but miss some estimates
The Apple iPhone 5 sold well in its opening weekend, Apple announced. Still, stock opened down two percent Monday morning.
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Foxconn: Chinese iPhone factory erupts in violence
Foxconn, which manufactures iPhones and iPads for Apple, halted production at a Chinese factory after a brawl by up to 2,000 employees injured 40 people. The fight erupted at a Foxconn dormitory near the iPhone factory.
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Gleeful Parisians wait to buy iPhone 5. Then protesters appear.
Disgruntled former employees of now-closed Apple distributors crash iPhone party atmosphere as buyers line up to buy the Apple iPhone 5 in Paris.
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Microsoft Corp. raises dividend 15 percent
Microsoft Corp. quarterly dividend will be 23 cents. Shares of Microsoft Corp. fall slightly.
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Yahoo! mega deal pays investors; stocks rise
Yahoo! has completed a long-awaited $7.6 billion deal with China's Alibaba Group, generating a windfall that could help ease the pain of Yahoo! shareholders and send stock prices higher.
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Horizons New iPhone record spurs Apple shares to top $700 (+video)
The new iPhone record caused another record to be broken. Apple stock shot higher than ever before.
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10 ways the Android is better than iPhone 5
Sure a larger iPhone screen, 4G LTE support and a faster CPU are welcome additions, but Apple is a year late and $199 short. Android has provided all these features and more.
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Chapter & Verse Amazon starts charging sales tax in California
While book giant Amazon is now required to charge customers sales tax in some states, it's already planning its next move: widely available same-day shipping.
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Facebook stock gets a much-needed Zuckerberg boost
Facebook is still riding the wave of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first public comments since the IPO went public. Zuckerberg's acknowledgement that the company cares about making money as well as making the world more 'open and connected' sent Facebook stock up 7.7 percent Wednesday.
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Stocks up after European rescue fund ruling
Stocks rose Wednesday after a German court cleared the way for that country to participate in a European rescue fund. The ruling helped push Germany's main stock index, the DAX, to its highest level since July of last year.
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Facebook CEO hints at mobile, search initiatives. Shares rise (+video)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in his first public appearance since the company's disastrous initial public offering, says Wall Street doesn't understand Facebook's business potential in mobile. Losing more than half their value since May, Facebook shares gained more than 3 percent.
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