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Japan Industrial Production Comes In As Expected, Climbing 1.1%
Japan industrial production climbed 1.1% in December, narrowly missing expectations for 1.3%. It was a jump up from the 0.1% decline experienced in November.The Nikkei fell slightly on the news but...
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New York Man Arrested With More Than $100,000 In Fake Super Bowl Tickets
THE BRONX — A Soundview man's "dream crushing" counterfeit Super Bowl ticket operation was shut down Thursday, Bronx prosecutors said.Police arrested Kevin Walker, 42, after finding 124 fake tickets...
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Libya Sues Goldman Over Massive $1 Billion Trading Loss
Libya's sovereign wealth fund is suing banking giant Goldman Sachs for "deliberately exploiting" its position to make $350 million profit on $1 billion worth of failed derivative trades, London's High...
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An Israeli Company Is Testing Flying Ambulance Drones
In a medical emergency, every second counts. That's why Israeli startup Urban Aeronautics is developing an unmanned flying ambulance called the "AirMule" that combines the in-and-out agility of a...
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Natural Gas Prices See Largest Single-Day Drop In Nearly Four Years
Earlier today we told you that many had their eyes on the EIA's natural gas inventories report. Well, at 230 billion cubic feet, the draw came in a bit short of expectations for 239 bcf.But it was...
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Philip K. Dick's Paranoid Science Fiction Has Largely Become Our Everyday...
Very few sci-fi authors have as colorful a story as Philip K. Dick.Not only was he tremendously prolific, churning out 44 novels and 121 short stories in his lifetime — he died in 1982 aged 53 — but he...
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Dramatic Helmet-Cam Footage Shows Unconscious Skydiver Saved In Mid-Air
An experienced skydiver was knocked out cold shortly after leaping from a plane over Wiltshire, England in July 2013, but his helmet-mounted camera captured exactly how he survived the ordeal.The video...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When A Cat Encounters Snow For The First Time
You know those friends who can still remember the first time they ever saw snow — the ones for whom it wasn't just a basic part of winter?Here is the cat version.Sophie, a black tabby owned by YouTube...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl Halftime Show Used To Be A Bizarre, Cultish Nightmare
For the past decade or so, America has gotten used to having PG 13- (and R-) rated musical acts perform during the Super Bowl's Half Time show. They're not always to everyone's musical tastes, and...
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Billion-Dollar Startup Coupons.com Is Generating More Than $100 Million Per...
Coupons.com just filed its S-1 for an initial public offering. The company, which lets users find a bunch of offerings then print them out before shopping, generated $115 million during the first nine...
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NYC's Private Jet Airport Is Getting Ready For An Onslaught Of Super Bowl...
With Super Bowl XLVIII coming to New Jersey this weekend, New York's metro area is bracing for an onslaught of visitors and doing its best to prevent catastrophic traffic.One of the busiest spots will...
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New Payments Startups Face An Uphill Battle To Disrupt The Credit Card...
The credit card industry processes a massive volume of transactions — about $4 trillion this year in the U.S., according to BI Intelligence estimates. With so much money in play, it's no wonder that a...
View ArticleBaby Polar Bear Meets Snow For The First Time [VIDEO]
The polar vortex may be keeping Chicago's polar bear inside, but this cub is out for an adventure. Born on November 9, 2013, the bear cub is the youngest polar bear at the Toronto Zoo, and currently...
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Why Some People Become 30-Year-Old Virgins
The longer you wait to have sex, the less likely you are to actually do it.Of people who don't have any sexual experience at age 18, 3% still didn't have any sexual experiences by age 24 to 32, a new...
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Mobile Is Beginning To Define The Multitrillion Dollar Global Travel Industry
KEY POINTSMobile devices are ideal companions for travelers, allowing them to access information, services and booking while en route. PhoCusWright estimates that by 2015, mobile will account for...
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Teens And Young Adults Are Actually Pretty Active On Facebook
Social Insider is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. SEE, FACEBOOK'S TEENS HAVEN'T TOTALLY JUMPED SHIP: Since last year, the biggest story around Facebook...
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Intuit Gave This Small Business A $4 Million Super Bowl Ad And Everyone In...
The small team of employees at GoldieBlox isn't used to having a crew of black limos pull up in front of its Oakland, Calif.-based office. And the family-run toy business whose mission is to encourage...
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All The Doomsday Weather Forecasts For The Super Bowl Were Wrong
There's been a lot of bitterly cold weather forecasts for the Super Bowl this Sunday, but things are starting to look up.Even though this weekend will mark the first outdoor Super Bowl game played in a...
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Netflix CEO Confesses He Tried To Sell The Company To Blockbuster ... But...
The New Yorker's Ken Auletta wrote a profile of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and revealed that the now-shuttered video chain Blockbuster missed out on a great chance to purchase the fledgling company in...
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Girls Take Over The World In GoldieBlox's First-Ever Super Bowl Ad
When Intuit released the finalists of its contest for an ad at this year's Super Bowl, there was no doubt which of the four remaining small businesses was the favorite to have its message broadcast to...
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