Description: SINCE Domino, the beloved shelter magazine, folded in early 2009, its staff members have gone on to lucrative consulting jobs, top editing posts, even television gigs, but none have advanced as swiftly as Michelle Adams.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 06/01/2011
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Description: Google and MasterCard unveiled a mobile payment system Thursday that uses consumers’ cell phones to store credit cards, coupons, and other data.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 05/26/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2011/05/26/t-tt-google-wallet.cnnmoney/
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Description: May’s correction affords an unparalleled opportunity to see what insiders really think is going to happen in the market, according to Mark Hulbert, who says it’s pretty telling if they’re selling amid declines. Laura Mandaro reports.
Source: Moneywatch.com – video report
Date: 05/24/2011
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Description: The perils of the high-stakes celebrity animal business
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 05/26/2011
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231085935993.htm
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Description: At the annual BookExpo America this week, booksellers voiced mixed feelings about the news that Amazon’s Kindle book sales have surpassed print, and some said they simply don’t believe it at all.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: 05/27/2011
Link: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/27/book-publishers-in-denial-on-amazons-e-book-sales/
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Description: RACHEL HANDLER is struggling to say something funny or perhaps amusing or at least clever about horses. Her mind is empty. She can’t recall the last time she was on a horse or even saw a horse. The minutes fly by. Horses are nothing to joke about.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 05/29/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/29groupon.html?ref=business
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Description: CEO Jeff Weiner says LinkedIn’s “exclusive focus on professionals” is what makes his company’s social platform so valuable to investors.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 05/20/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/05/20/n_linkedin_ceo.cnnmoney/
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Description: Google chairman Eric Schmidt says that Android’s open-tablets will ultimately “bring more volume, more users, and more investment” to the platform.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 05/17/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2011/05/17/f_schmidt_gps.cnnmoney/
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Description: Dietrich Mateschitz is making a bold move into TV, movies, and magazines. What’s the visionary behind a $5 billion-a-year soft-drink empire doing in the media business? Just what he’s always done: having a blast.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 05/19/2011
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230064852768.htm
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Description: Facebook’s founder sees the social networking site as a tool with educational potential. That of course means getting kids Facebooking at an early age.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: 05/20/2011
Link: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/20/zuckerberg-kids-under-13-should-be-allowed-on-facebook/
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