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Olympian feat: Chemists synthesize smallest five-ringed molecule
In honor of the upcoming Summer Olympics, British scientists have synthesized and IBM scientists in Switzerland have imaged the smallest possible molecule with five rings, an unusual molecule that they have named olympicene. The molecule is just 1.2...
Tags: Science and Technology, Summer Olympics
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Apple's Tim Cook forgoes $75 million in quarterly stock dividends
This post has been updated and corrected. See the note below for details.Apple Inc. announced that Chief Executive Tim Cook would be passing up on $75 million by not participating in the Cupertino, Calif., company's quarterly dividends. With the company set to start giving out a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share by the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Tim Cook, Computing and Information Technology Industry, CEO Pay, John Malkovich
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Michael Heizer's calling is set in stone
In early 1969, a young artist working in the Nevada desert had an idea for an epic sculpture. Michael Heizer had found a 120-ton boulder in the mountains and wanted to set it above a trench dug in a dry lake bed. Visitors would be able to walk into the...
Tags: Architecture, CNN (tv network), Fine Artists, Artists, Museums
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IBM: Not so fast, Siri
Siri has had her visitor badge revoked at IBM. Apparently she can't keep quiet about what she hears. Although IBM has allowed the iPhone 4S and other employee-owned consumer smartphones and tablets, like so many other companies barraged by their...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Apple iCloud, Computer Hardware, Storage, Services and Shopping
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Twitter to end Summify service next month
Summify, a start-up purchased by Twitter earlier this year, announced that it will end its service late next month. The start-up, which delivered to its users an email digest highlighting the top stories pulled from their Twitter, Facebook and Google...
Tags: Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Email, Apple iPhone
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Apple once again the world's most valuable brand
For the second year in a row, Apple is the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released Tuesday. Apple took top honors by increasing its brand value 19% to $182.9 billion, according to the Millward Brown’s annual BrandZ study. ...
Tags: Social Media, Verizon Communications, Coca-Cola Co., Media Industry, Apple iPhone
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Chinese firm's deal to buy AMC may spur others
Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group's landmark deal to buy AMC Entertainment Inc. for $2.6 billion could be a catalyst for similar acquisitions of American theater chains and other U.S. entertainment properties, industry analysts said.
The deal...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Apollo Investment Corp., James Marsh, Beijing (China), Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company
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Ariel Hsing's Olympic dream is a DIY effort
SAN JOSE — The day begins around 7 a.m., at the back of the house, in a room outfitted with rows of fluorescent lights, a ping-pong table and little else.
This is where Ariel Hsing comes to practice alone. She starts by crouching silently at one...Tags: Table Tennis, England, Tennis, Trips and Vacations, Science and Technology
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Yahoo escalates legal fight with Facebook, adds two patents to suit
Yahoo is escalating the hostilities and the stakes in its increasingly acrimonious patent battle with Facebook. In papers filed in San Francisco federal court Friday, the Internet search company expanded its lawsuit against Facebook to include two more...
Tags: Laws, Companies and Corporations, AOL LLC, Social Media, Justice System
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Blacks in South L.A. have a bleaker jobs picture than in 1992
Two decades after the L.A. riots brought pledges of help to rebuild South Los Angeles, the area is worse off in many ways than it was in 1992.
Median income, when adjusted for inflation, is lower. Many middle-class blacks have fled in search of safer...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Employment, Personal Income
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Yahoo says Facebook data centers may infringe on its patents
Yahoo has warned Facebook that the social networking giant may be infringing on 16 more of its patents. Yahoo sent a letter to Facebook last month alleging that the patents “may be relevant” to technology Facebook uses in its servers and data...
Tags: Laws, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Issues, Social Media, Justice System
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Berkshire holders trust Buffett on health outlook
Warren Buffett insists that he's feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis. Based on the questions he got at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, shareholders are taking him at his word. Despite the fact that Buffett just disclosed his...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Business, Credit Ratings
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