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Three Reasons Amazon Will Keep Stealing Business From Wal-Mart and Best Buy

Wal-Mart and Best Buy are making strides to compete with online behemoth Amazon this holiday season. But Amazon will continue to gain market share in electronics and general merchandise, according to a...

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REPORT: Chinese Officials Barged Into Bloomberg News For An 'Inspection'

Chinese officials conducted "unannounced inspections" at two Bloomberg News bureaus at the end of November, Fortune's Peter Elkind and Scott Cendrowski report.The inspections at the Beijing and...

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The Real Minimum Wage Falls Every Year — Here's How To Fix That

Support is building for an increase in the minimum wage with Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introducing legislation to raise it to $10.10 an hour from the current level of...

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The TSA Found A Stun Gun Disguised As An Old Cellphone

In the last week of November, TSA officials around the country found 34 firearms, 27 of which were loaded, and 6 of which had rounds chambered. That's a pretty standard haul for the agency, but another...

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Sweaty Betty's Yoga Pants Are Even More Expensive Than Lululemon's, And Women...

There's a new high-end fitness fashion brand in town, and it's even more expensive than Lululemon Athletica.Sweaty Betty, which was founded in London in 1998, has opened two U.S. stores in the last...

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Here's The Most Common Question Investors Are Asking About The Stock Market

Stocks have soared a staggering 26% this year, far outpacing earnings growth.And when stock returns outpace earnings growth, then the price-earnings (PE) multiple is expanding."Year to date, 75% of the...

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200 People Watched A Canadian College Student Light Himself On Fire In An...

A Canadian college student at the University of Guelph reportedly live-streamed his disturbing suicide attempt for 200 viewers in a notorious 4chan forum this weekend, the Daily Dot reports.In a live...

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Bob Dylan Formally Charged With 'Inciting Hate' For This Comment Made About...

Bob Dylan has been formally charged with "inciting hate," AFP reports.On Friday, we reported Dylan had been sued by a Croatian community association in France over comments he made in his September...

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NFL Admits It Completely Screwed Up The End Of The Sunday Night Football Game

The NFL released a statement today admitting that the Sunday Night Football game should have been stopped when the officials disagreed about which down was being played with less than two minutes...

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Candid Photos Of New Yorkers Riding The Subway In 1960

The sites and sounds of the NYC subway are well known to the 4.3 million people who ride it every day.The sleepy commuters, crowded cars, conductor's voice, and train doors opening and closing are just...

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Giveaway: Here's How To Be The Hero Of Your Office Party

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New Orleans Pelicans Center Anthony Davis Out Indefinitely With A Broken Hand

Standout center Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans is out indefinitely after suffering a non-displaced fracture in his left hand according to ESPN's Ian Begley.Davis suffered the injury during...

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Why Successful People Define Their 'Circle Of Competence'

The concept of the “Circle of Competence” has been used over the years by Warren Buffett as a way to focus investors on only operating in areas they knew best. The bones of the concept appear in his...

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Why Uber Initially Had To Charge Five Times As Much As A Taxi

Click for sound.<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick tells us how his friends reacted to his business idea, and why local regulators went...

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Big Data Will Drive The Next Phase Of Innovation In Mobile Computing

The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...

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STOCKS TUMBLE: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ)

Stocks saw a decent sell-off today.First, the scoreboard:Dow: 15,914.6 (-94.1, -0.5%)S&P 500: 1,795.1  (-5.7, -0.3%)Nasdaq: 4,037.2  (-8.0, -0.2%)And now the top stories:We haven't seen a whole lot...

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Smartphones And Tablets Led The Charge Toward Record-Setting Cyber Monday

Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Cyber Monday...

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HGTV Host Dead At 38 After Motorcycle Accident

HGTV host Bill Beckwith died Monday night in a motorcycle accident in San Francisco, reports Variety.Beckwith, 38, was a contractor and carpenter who co-hosted the network's "Curb Appeal," a half-hour...

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JCPenney Sales Surge In November (JCP)

Shares of JCPenney are nearly 4% higher in after-hours trading following the release of favorable November same-store sales numbers, which showed a 10.1% increase from last year.Despite a 4.8% drop in...

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Tesla Had A Monster Day (TSLA)

Tesla closed up 16.5% at $144.68 today.The stock was buoyed on news that the German Federal Motor Transport Authority cleared the Model S.The German regulator had reviewed the Model S fire incidents in...

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