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Airbnb rentals ruled illegal in New York City
A judge has ruled that Airbnb, the popular online service that allows homeowners and apartment dwellers to offer their residences as temporary rentals, is illegal in New York City. The decision from the city’s Environmental Control Board found...
Tags: Judges, Condos and Houses, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Apartments
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Payvia buys mobile marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...Tags: Consumers, Consumer Goods Industries, Cox Media Group, Inc., Marketing, Business
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Media Industry, France Telecom, Arts and Culture, Social Media, Business
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Mobile payments company Payvia buys L.A. marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia announced Monday that it had acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. Payvia, based in L.A., said the deal would create a simplified all-in-one platform that enables companies to target consumers and provide...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Computer Hardware, Cox Media Group, Inc., Marketing, Business
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Dwayne Johnson, Conservation, Yale University, Pneumonia
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On eve of Google developers conference, company 'hot again'
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Even though its ubiquitous Internet search engine practically mints money, Google Inc. was widely seen as a company whose best days were behind it. It was written off as the next Microsoft Corp. — a staid high-tech...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, New Products, Media Industry, Larry Page, Economy, Business and Finance
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In South Carolina, an ex-governor's quest continues
CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a harborside reception overlooking Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began, Mark Sanford batted away a TV reporter's question about the latest insult to his comeback campaign: an unwanted endorsement from pornographer Larry...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Elections, Tim Scott, FreedomWorks
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Silicon Valley uses growing clout to kill a digital privacy bill
Silicon Valley has wielded its growing political clout at the state Capitol to kill a digital privacy bill that would have given consumers access to information about them being collected online. Had the Right to Know Act become law, California would...
Tags: Politics, Elections, U.S. Senate, Media Industry, Satellite and Cable Service
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NBC's Harbert adds to duties. Lights-out quarter for CBS.
After the coffee. Before trying to find a hardware store. The Skinny: It was a tough choice but I decided to go with the season finale of FX's "The Americans" last night instead of ABC's "Nashville," which I recorded for later. Let this be a lesson to...
Tags: Television, Politics, Media Industry, Interior Policy, Sumner Redstone
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2012 elections boost TV stations; L.A. market reaches $1.4 billion
Politics may often seem like a dirty business, but for local TV stations it's also a very good business. Political advertising helped propel a 13.2% growth in television station revenue last year, allowing the broadcast industry to regain much of the...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Politics, Elections, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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Yahoo shares plunge on decline in 1st quarter display-ad sales
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter earnings report was seen by some as an early test of Marissa Mayer's ability to turn around the troubled Internet company. Investors now seem to be worried Mayer might not pass that test. Shares that...Tags: Marissa Mayer, Advertising, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Yahoo! Inc., Japan
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FTC calls on online ad industry to agree on do-not-track standard
SAN FRANCISCO -- New Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez had some tough words on "do not track" in her first speech to the advertising industry. Ramirez on Wednesday urged the industry to give consumers "effective and meaningful privacy...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Consumers, Advertising, World Wide Web Consortium
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