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• Fmr Finance Minister reacts to 20% Tax on Cell Phones in Grenada

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 173
  Author: nnpnews Keywords: grenada phones tax vat government nnp anthony boatswain keith mitchell gregory bowen yolande bain Added: December 9, 2009
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• Apple Buys Ignition-Backed Lala, Appature Gets Funded, Free & Clear Gets Celebrated, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was another fairly quiet week for deals in the Northwest. But there were a couple of first-round venture financings for established software startups, and one notable acquisition. —Portland, OR-based software startup JanRain closed $3.25 million in ...
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• New era of eateries hit the road with Twitter

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 532
  By Portia Bode Daily Titan Staff Writer A line, over 80 people long, forms for the Kogi Korean Barbecue truck parked in front of Surfas in Culver City. Kogi, a fusion of Korean and Mexican food, operates out of lunch trucks, letting the public know where to expect them using Twitter. Photo by Christine ...
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• Lalas Fire Sale That Wasnt: What Apple Really Paid

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 740
  On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price , which meant that investors in the music service wouldn’t get their money back. I was wrong. Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources. That’s less than half what investors valued the company at ...
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• Why is domestic violence against men funny?

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 546
  As a kid, I grew up hearing the following song-spoof: Rudolph the Bow-Legged Cowboy Had a very shiny gun And if you ever saw it You would turn around and run All of the other cowboys Used to laugh and call him names They wouldnt let poor Rudolph Join in any Cowboy games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to ...
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• Smith to continue without Rangers contract

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 156
  Walter Smith will continue as Rangers manager without a contract as majority shareholder David Murray continues his efforts to sell the club, chief executive Martin Bain said Monday. Bain told the club’s annual general meeting that Smith, whose current contract expires next month, would stay on without signing a ...
  2 days ago

• Last Week on Idolator 2.0: The Best Disgruntled Comments

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 517
  Several weeks ago, accomplished music writer and all-around delight Maura Johnston left Idolator . The next day, fans of the site were greeted with two new bloggers, Robbie and Becky. We didn’t know their last names, and it seemed they were mostly interested in “writing” about teen idols. The ratio of typos and ...
  2 days ago

• Democracy & Elitism 3: burning down the straw man, and who are these out-of-touch “liberal elites,” anyway?

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 612
  Let’s begin with a quick trivia question. What legislator’s Top 20 donor list includes the following? Blackstone Group (Financial Services) Bain Capital FPL Group (Energy) DLA Piper (Corporate law firm, representing Global 1,000 and Fortune 500 companies) Kindred Healthcare Beacon Capital ...
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• Apple Confirms Purchase of Music Site Lala.com

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  Apple confirmed that it has snapped up online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley start-up that has threatened the end of the MP3 with its fast song-streaming application.
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• Clear Channel Said to Seek $2.5 Billion

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  Clear Channel Communicationss outdoor advertising business is in talks with lenders to raise as much as $2.5 billion in the high-yield market, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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• Apple Buys Out Music Streaming Company Lala.com

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 445
  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has bought out steaming music company Lala.com. Earlier this year Warner Music Group invested in Lala and it seems like their investment has paid off. While this is good news for Lala’s board of directors, the acquisition may spell bad news for Lala users. Lala users can stream music ...
  3 days ago

• Reports: Apple to Buy Lala, Backed by Ignition, Bain

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  deals , music , rumors Gregory T. Huang wrote: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is in talks to acquire Lala, a Palo Alto, CA-based online music service backed by Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners and Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures, according to Bloomberg and CNET , which each cite anonymous sources. No ...
  4 days ago

• 4 GA Officers Honored as Heroes For Rescuing Family From Flooding Vehicle

  
  Positive LEO — Authority: 145
  Florida Times Union They helped rescue a family trapped in a flooding vehicle. At 2 a.m. on Easter, the night was as dark as the water was black as it poured into the minivan upside down in the marsh along Interstate 95 in McIntosh County. Trapped inside: a New Jersey family of eight. That was the scene county ...
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• Report: Apple in talks to buy Lala to face a new streaming world

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Apple is reportedly in talks to buy music streaming service Lala for an undisclosed amount, according to Bloomberg. As emerging competitors like Spotify try to scale a revenue model for music that places the emphasis on access to songs, rather than outright ownership, Apple needs a way to defend the breakthroughs it ...
  5 days ago

• AB InBev hangs on to Becks brand

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 668
  Filed under: Deals , Rumors First brewed in 1873, Becks beer is crisp, fresh, and "full of character." Its also still part of the growing AB InBev family. Anheuser-Busch InBev, which is of course the Belgian-based parent of Anheuser-Busch ( BUD ), has abandoned plans to sell the German beer brand to Bain ...
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• Orit Gadiesh on Curiosity

  
  ChristianSarkar.com — Authority: 120
  How do you encourage curiosity across a global organization? " Many consultants out there would rather just give answers and are even afraid to ask questions. We deliberately hire people who arent like that, even early in their careers, and senior consultants coach them on how to be inquisitive. Sometimes that ...
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• Tech IPO comeback: $50 billion in 2010?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 668
  Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Morgan Stanley (MS) , Texas Instruments (TXN) , Barclays plc ADS (BCS) Tech sector IPOs surged by a factor of five in terms of value from 2008 to 2009. A mere $749.2 million raised in 2008 jumped to $3.8 million so far this year, according to ...
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• Twilight Zone: Tasers and Sutphin

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 501
  This blog has been following taser-related deaths over the past year. Here is an oddity that we offer for your consideration. Sutphin is not a common name . Ancestry.com tells us that Sutphin is the Americanized spelling of Dutch van Zutphen, a habitational name for someone from Zutphen in the province ...
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• Possums down, birds up

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 516
  What’s bad for possums is good for native birds . The extermination strategy has resulted in a drop in possum numbers from 60 to 70 million in the 1980s to around 30 million and as possum numbers have decreased, native bird populations have increased. Forest and Bird spokeswoman Helen Bain said the drop was a ...
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• Nine Lives of Roddy Hogg

  
  Our Lady's Latest — Authority: 130
  The Baldy Bain Theatre Company came along to entertain 1st year with the constant threats to Roddy Hogg’s life and limbs. The play started with a fatal car crash, then  After baby Roddy invaded the audience (and got friendly with Mrs Thompson) we saw him all grown up at secondary, getting into trouble with the [...]
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