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Google said to face new FTC antitrust probe on display ad market
Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said. The fresh inquiry,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Companies and Corporations, Consumer Goods Industries, Justice System, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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John McCain: Cable TV, the right way
America's 100 million cable and satellite subscribers are forced to pay ever-higher bills for a growing number of channels they do not watch. The American people are being ripped off. Meanwhile, services such as iTunes and Netflix have led a...
Tags: ABC (tv network), U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Federal Communications Commission, Satellite and Cable Service, U.S. Congress
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Charles Burford dies at 81; inventor created equipment for baking industry
Charles E. Burford, a prolific inventor whose patents included the equipment that puts twist ties on bread bags, has died. He was 81. Burford died May 16 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas of what his family said were...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Breads
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Amazon launches project to monetize fan fiction: Kindle Worlds
Amazon has a plan to monetize fan fiction: It's called Kindle Worlds. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder. The idea is that...
Tags: Mark Twain, Authors, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, The Vampire Diaries (tv program)
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Facebook faces copyright infringement lawsuit over Eminem song
A music publisher is suing Facebook and its ad agency for using an Eminem song without permission in an ad for Facebook Home. Eight Mile Style, which oversees Eminem’s portfolio, said in the copyright infringement lawsuit that ad agency Wieden +...
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Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd
Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawing fire from senior senators in both parties for using subsidiaries in Ireland to reduce its tax bill. But if Apple has its way, its bitter rival Google...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Earnings, Companies and Corporations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, U.S. Congress
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First Tumblr employee compares CEO David Karp to Steve Jobs
Is David Karp, who just sold his startup for $1.1 billion to Yahoo, another Steve Jobs? That's what Tumblr's first employee believes. Marco Arment says the 26-year-old Karp is very much like the late Apple co-founder. Arment is no longer with Tumblr...
Tags: Eminem, Social Media, Media Industry, Entertainment, Music
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Apple CEO Tim Cook strongly defends tax policy at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook strongly defended the company's tax practices Tuesday at a Senate hearing highlighting the technology giant's use of Irish subsidiaries to shelter billions of dollars in income from U.S. taxes....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rand Paul, Apple iPad, Justice System, U.S. Congress
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Gov. Cuomo warns Khloe Kardashian & Co. about Rich Soil logo
It's not every day that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warns Khloe Kardashian about anything. But the governor's administration sent out a "pro forma" letter to Rich Soil, Kardashian's husband Lamar Odom's clothing line, warning that the logo used on one of...
Tags: Khloe Kardashian, Andrew Cuomo, Regional Authority, Politics, Government
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Vimeo, Flickr reportedly to be built into Apple's upcoming iOS 7
The next version of Apple's iOS will reportedly include Flickr and Vimeo integration, making it easier for users to share content they create with the two social networks. Apple news website 9to5Mac reported Tuesday that iOS 7, which the Cupertino...
Tags: Apple iPad, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Angelina Jolie's courageous act will save women's lives
Four days after her April 27 breast reconstruction, the third and final surgery aimed at sparing her an early death from breast cancer, Angelina Jolie was in good spirits at home. Upon paying a house call, her surgeon, Dr. Kristi Funk of the Pink...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, U.S. Supreme Court, American Civil Liberties Union
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Students, Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, DREAM Act, Business
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