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CanadianPharmacy.US – Best Place for Ordering Medicine Online at Low Prices!

CanadianPharmacy.US – Best Place for Ordering Medicine Online at Low Prices!

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James Pitaro Named New President Of ESPN, Replacing John Skipper ESPN might be the worldwide leader when it comes to TV sports coverage, but for nearly three months, it was lacking in leadership at the top ranks.

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Broadcom Bids To Buy Qualcomm In Record-Setting Tech Merger Qualcomm is a world titan when it comes to wireless technology, but we may soon be witnessing a shift of power in the industry.

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Uber, Waymo Mired In Legal Battle Over Intellectual Property Two industry leaders in the world of transportation—more specifically, two companies competing to lead the global movement toward autonomous vehicles—are mired in a bitter court dispute.

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Art Meets Tech In the World of Museum Apps

Photo credit: dennizn / Shutterstock If you haven’t heard of the Google Arts & Culture app, you’ve probably been living under a rock. It’s the #1 most popular educational app in the Google Play store, and enjoying similar popularity in the iTunes store. But there are lots of other art and culture apps, too, often offered by individual museums. Here are several of our favorites. San Francisco…

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Is The Super Bowl Really An Economic Boon For Its Host City? The Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year in American sports, and conventional wisdom would hold that the game leads to an economic windfall for its host city every year.

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Wells Fargo to Close Hundreds of Branches Wells Fargo had a pretty rough year. The bank announced this week that it will be closing 800 more branches by the end of 2020 in an effort to cut more than $4 billion in expenses.

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Google Announces Plans To Open Artificial Intelligence Lab in China

Google’s Beijing office.Photo credit: testing / Shutterstock Google’s business has been largely absent from China since 2010, when the company pulled many of its core businesses out. Now, though, Google is returning to China with the announcement of a new Chinese center devoted to artificial intelligence. This is a small gesture but a strong symbolic move that represents the tech giant returning…

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Investors Still Confident In Uber Despite Its Problems

Photo credit: Mr.Whiskey / Shutterstock It’s no big news that Uber has had a rough 2017. From harassment scandals to activist investors to regulatory troubles, the ridesharing company has had a lot of challenges in the past year. But despite all of that, investors remain confident that the $70 billion company is poised for growth. “We’ve seen it over years and years, and I think [former CEO…

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Disney, Fox Are in Talks to Complete Major Merger in Entertainment Industry

Image: Dean Bertoncelj / Shutterstock Two of the biggest names in the entertainment industry are preparing to team up. According to the Financial Times, executives at Disney and 21st Century Fox have revived talks regarding a major merger in which Disney would purchase around $50 billion worth of Fox’s international and entertainment-related assets. This would include the company’s 39 percent…

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ESPN is Laying Off Another 150 Employees ESPN has long been an industry leader in cable TV sports programming, but it's fallen on tough times lately.

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TripAdvisor's Stocks Drop After Bungling Sexual Assault Charges

TripAdvisor’s Stocks Drop After Bungling Sexual Assault Charges

TripAdvisor, a website for both travel booking and discussion, came under fire this week for deleting and ignoring several reports of rape and assault. Back in 2010, Kristie Love took a trip to Mexico, where she stayed at the Iberostar Paraiso Maya. She returned to the hotel after a night out to find that her electronic key card had been deactivated. When she asked a uniformed guard for help, he…

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The Carlyle Group Announces Major Shift in Leadership

The Carlyle Group Announces Major Shift in Leadership

Last week, asset management company The Carlyle Group appointed Glenn Youngkin and Kewsong Lee its new co-chief executive officers. From an outsider’s perspective, the leadership change may not seem all that significant. But for those in the finance industry, it marks a huge milestone. In private equity, transference of power is rare. Rival buyout firm KKR recently underwent a similar shift in…

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Own a Business? Keep Politics Out of It

Own a Business? Keep Politics Out of It

Photo credit: Shutterstock Regardless of whether you voted for Hillary, Trump, or a third-party candidate, this key piece of advice remains the same: keep politics out of business.  While it can be tempting to jump on the political bandwagon, doing so comes at the risk of losing your customers (and ultimately your business). The NFL learned this lesson the hard way. It all started in 2016, when…

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Trump and the Stock Market: Correlation Does Not Equal Causation

Trump and the Stock Market: Correlation Does Not Equal Causation

Photo credit: dennizn / Shutterstock Ever since Trump took office, the stock market has hit some record highs. Most recently, the Dow reached over 23,000 for the first time in history. President Trump, of course, credits himself for this trend. In a series of tweets published on Oct. 11, the president wrote: “Stock market has increased by 5.2 trillion dollars since the election on November 8th, a…

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Star-Studded Group to Be Inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

Star-Studded Group to Be Inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

Photo credit: Shutterstock The US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame has announced its 2017 inductees, which include some of the biggest names in the sports. Both important financial supporters like Thom Weisel and well-known athletes like Eddie Ferguson will be added in honor of their accomplishments. Eddie “Airborne” Ferguson is known as a freestyle icon who helped develop the hotdog freestyle…

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Albuquerque Kicks National Coffee Day Up a Notch

Albuquerque Kicks National Coffee Day Up a Notch

Image credit: Shutterstock Today is National Coffee Day, and Albuquerque, New Mexico is set to celebrate—and give back to the community. Nationwide chains like Starbucks, Peet’s, Dunkin Donuts, and more are offering a variety of specials such as free drip coffee, discounts on beans, and various coffee tastings. Even car ride service Lyft is getting in on the action: in select cities (Seattle,…

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