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Oprah Winfrey, the raving queen of Talk Shows, is determined to prove that failure is not something she can accept and she will do this by steering OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) to success despite a terrible first year. OWN is a television network that Oprah launched almost one year ago when she officially bid farewell [...]
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Italy’s antitrust authority announced on Tuesday it has fined US tech giant Apple 900,000 euros ($1.8 million) for misguiding consumers on post-purchase help and product warranties. The authority explained in a statement that the fine was imposed on Apple as punishment for unfair commercial practices that have consequently harmed innocent consumers. It made it clear [...]
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The legendary Steve Jobs may not be remembered for producing any hit single or any top selling album, but he will certainly go down the books of musical history as an individual who revolutionized the music industry and made a great deal of contribution to the war against music piracy especially when he created iTunes. [...]
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The famous Google Doodle is carrying a ‘Happy Holidays’ cheer with a nicely crafted homepage full of the season’s symbols. The main feature of the homepage is an image resembling a Lite-Brite where Google’s logo is presented with various symbols including a Santa Clause, a bell, a snowflake, a present, a candle and a snowman. [...]
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The U.S. Congress passed a two-month extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut eight days before its scheduled expiration. The approval assures that over 160 million Americans will be spared from an additional two-percentage point payroll tax next year. The tax-cut extension will mean that the average employee will not be paying an additional [...]
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An HIV discovery from clinical trials of researchers led by a scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was called by the journal Science as the most important scientific breakthrough of 2011. The discovery was that early anti-retroviral drugs treatment significantly reduced by about 96 percent the risk of transmitting HIV from infected persons. [...]
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Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen is having it nice this holiday with Denise Richards, his ex-wife, as well as their kids. This came out after they were seen enjoying the holidays together in a family vacation location that remains unnamed probably as a way of shutting out ‘gossipers’. The former actor of the sitcom ‘Two and [...]
Bank of America agreed on December 22 to a $335 million settlement to straighten out allegations that its Countrywide Financial unit discriminated against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers by charging them higher mortgage fees and interest rates than the white borrowers. Department of Justice officials said that the fair-lending claims settlement is the largest in history [...]
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Record labels have accused Google of failing to firmly deal with illegal downloading of files. This was raised in a report released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) which says the search engine giant is making money through file sharing and stresses that it therefore needs to lay out measures to ensure [...]
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The U.S. government made an unprecedented move of asking scientists last December 20, not to publish the complete details of how they created a variant of the deadly bird flu that can pass easily between ferrets. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the National Institutes of Health, which [...]
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