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Board approves News Corp split into two entities
WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...
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China to allow US auditors access to records of Chinese firms
BEIJING - Chinese regulators Friday announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with their US counterparts giving American authorities increased access to documents from Chinese audit firms. The signing of the MOU between China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a significant ...
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Croatia looking to oil exploration in Adriatic Sea to revive economy
ZAGREB/LONDON - Croatia, soon to become the 28th member of the European Union,- is looking to undiscovered oil and gas fields in the Adriatic Sea to revive its ailing economy, according to the country's president. Ivo Josipovic told CNN that Croatia is searching for partners in the energy sector to help reveal oil and gas "green fields" in the waters that separate the Balkan nations and ...
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Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion
WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...
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China central bank report promises financial sector reforms
BEIJING - China is planning to steadily push forward market-oriented reform in its interest rates and exchange rates mechanisms this year as part of the financial sector reforms to better serve the real economy, a central bank report said on Friday. The "China Financial Stability Report (2013) released by the People's Bank of China stressed that it would be steadily promoting the interest ...
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Ratatouille
As have all their previous films, Pixar's Ratatouille, which tells the unlikely story of a country rat who yearns to be a Parisian chef, stands out among the other computer-animated movies of late. Ever since the release of 1995's Toy Story, the first feature-length comp ... ...
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UK urged by IMF to bring forward high value spending
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Apple Loop Macs Made In Texas iOS 7 Goes Black And White Microsoft Mocks Siri
Washington , D.C. this week to address a bi-partisan Senate subcommittee that criticized the company for using tax loopholes and keeping the majority of its cash overseas to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain had harsh words for Apple in their opening statements and in the report assembled by the committee's staff detailing why Cook and co. ...
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Billionaire under fire after suggesting motherhood destroys ambition
Paul Tudor Jones is one of the world's savviest investors, but the hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist is trying to explain comments about motherhood and high finance that are getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. NBC's Andrea Mitchell ...
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Memorial Day shopping do’s and don’ts
memorial day you see big furniture sales at the office superstars. time of year people have more money because they got their tax refund and furniture is one of the things they tend to ...
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Girl Who Scolded McDonalds CEO Not Impressed
Hannah Robertson, 9, flew in with her mom from Kelowna, British Columbia, to attend McDonald's annual shareholder meeting Thursday in Oak Brook, Ill., the company's ...
What They Said
We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Grand Hyatt Dubai
I drove up to one of Dubai's newest luxury hotels, the Grand Hyatt Dubai, with it's towers majestically standing watch ...
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