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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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iPhone 5? The 11 best uses for your old iPhone
Here are 11 good ideas for an 'obsolete' iPhone:
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GOP convention winners and losers, from Condoleezza Rice to Clint Eastwood (+video)
It was a chaotic week in Tampa, Fla., as Mitt Romney accepted his party's nomination and hurricane Isaac crashed the party. From the major speeches to some trivial moments, we rate some of the winners and losers to come out of the 2012 GOP convention.
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Facebook IPO: five things to know before buying the stock
About 1 out of every 8 people on the planet have a Facebook account. Now, with the arrival of a public stock offering, all those people have a chance to be part owners of this social hub. Should you buy? Here are five things to consider.
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Top 5 foreign-language films
Occasionally, foreign films score big at American box offices. Here are the all-time top-grossing foreign-language films in the US.
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National Honesty Day: This story is an attempt to get Web traffic
National Honesty Day: April 30 marks National Honesty Day. We hope that you'll visit this page so that we can get a tiny bit of advertising money.
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Patents arsenal: Why Facebook is buying
Patents accumulation is key strategy as Facebook prepares to go public. It bought $550 million worth of patents from Microsoft.
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As US and Vietnam get closer, human rights concerns grow
Ties between the US and Vietnam are good, but Vietnam's human rights record has activists asking if Washington is pushing Hanoi enough on political, economic, and free speech reforms.
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US stocks sink on Spain's bad debts
All three major US stock indexes sank Wednesday after a dismal report about bad loans on the books of Spanish banks. The Dow fell 82 points to close at 13032.
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'Second screen' apps turn digital distractions into TV companions
Disney and Yahoo design 'second screen' apps for phones and tablets that help viewers stay invested in a TV show or movie – even when they're ignoring that TV show or movie.
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Will the iPad follow the path of zippers, escalators, and heroin?
Despite other companies' efforts to create a household brand name, Apple has won with the iPad. The name is used not only to describe Apple's popular products, but also tablets in general.
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Appeals court reinstates Viacom lawsuit against Google's YouTube
The court ruling Thursday allows Viacom and other entities to sue Google over the use of copyrighted video on the internet search engine's YouTube video platform.
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Global News Blog Google, an underdog in Asia, lays plans for Taiwan data center
Taiwan gets Internet traffic easily from the United States. I sits at the ends of undersea cables that extend directly from North America before branching off to other parts of Asia.
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Decoder Wire 'Morning Joe' host: GOP establishment thinks Mitt Romney will lose to Obama
Mitt Romney's path to the nomination seems secure – but as conservative Joe Scarborough bluntly put it Wednesday, Republicans aren't confident about his chances in the fall.
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New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson cuts 2,000 jobs
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson announced the company would be laying off 2,000 employees on Wednesday in order to take the "next step toward a bold, new Yahoo."
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Yahoo sues Facebook over patent infringement, Facebook calls it 'puzzling'
Yahoo Inc. said in a court filing Monday that Facebook has infringed 10 of its patents covering advertising, privacy controls and social networking.
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Yahoo sues Facebook as legal war escalates
Yahoo sued Facebook on Monday, the first major legal battle among technology giants in social media. But patent skirmishes are common in the tech industry. Is Yahoo simply firing the opening shots for a new battlefield?
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'Shahs of Sunset' reality show: Is this what Iranian-Americans are like?
'Shahs of Sunset' purports to introduce Americans to the culture of Iranian-Americans. But by casting an ultrarich family, some say, it will seem more like 'Keeping up with the Kardashians.'
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Think Google privacy policy isn't private enough? How to stay incognito.
A new, streamlined privacy policy goes into effect Thursday on all Google websites. The result: more effective ad-targeting of users. If you're not liking that idea, here are some tips to make it harder for Google to track your online activity.
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Facebook reveals plans for mobile ads
Watch out – your phone may no longer be safe from Facebook advertisers.
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Vox News Maher gives pro-Obama super PAC $1 million. Is that a good career move?
Bill Maher's routine is made up of political jokes all aimed at the GOP candidates. If no GOP candidate is able to beat President Obama in the fall, good material will be harder to come by.
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White House releases 'privacy bill of rights': what it promises online consumers
While falling short of law, the consumer 'privacy bill of rights' would give consumers 'new legal and technical tools to safeguard their privacy,' according to the White House.
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New York Police Department monitored Muslim students all over the Northeast
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press has learned.
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Stocks rally as Greek debt talks show signs of life
After losing for most of the day, the Dow rallied to close up four points at 12878 on late reports that suggested the unraveling Greek debt talks might be saved after all.
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Iranian internet email access returns after mysterious four-day outage
The semiofficial Mehr agency had said that more than 30 million people in the country were affected by the outage.
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Tech stocks: Hold Apple. Be selective on others.
Tech stocks have engendered a lot of skepticism, but certain tech stocks are attractively priced, analysts say, even Apple.
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How did Anonymous hackers eavesdrop on FBI and Scotland Yard?
The FBI and Scotland Yard said no systems were breached, which suggests Anonymous might have hacked an e-mail account and stolen information to listen to a conference call.
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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, made $30 million in 2011
Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 person at Facebook, pulled in a sterling salary last year. Even Mark Zuckerberg made only a small fraction of Sheryl Sandberg's total 2011 earnings.
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Facebook IPO likely to rank company among world's largest
Facebook IPO expected to be as high as $100 billion and will rank Facebook among the largest public companies in the world.
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Top 5 foreign-language films
Occasionally, foreign films score big at American box offices. Here are the all-time top-grossing foreign-language films in the US.
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