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Swatch Group Sales Hit New Record For 2013

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Swatch Group Ltd., the largest Swiss watch business, reports record sales for 2013 and a strong start for 2014. The company on Friday said year-over-year gross sales for 2013 increased 8.3 percent to...
    






Best Investment Ideas 2014: Six Technology Stocks

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Last year was a sizzling year for stocks, and though technology and telecom stocks as a group rose only 18%, their were pockets like Internet stocks that soared. PowerShares Nasdaq Internet Portfolio...
    






Will You Go Viral? Here’s A Way To Predict

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The following post is by Roger Wu, cofounder of the business-to-business content distribution network, Cooperatize. We’ve seen it too many times.  Someone tweets something in poor taste, the...
    






Life On Earth Didn’t Begin On Mars, Says Astrochemist

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The eternal chicken or egg question — did Mars seed life on earth or did earth seed life on the Red Planet? — is utter astrobiological “nonsense.” Or so says Pascale Ehrenfreund, an astrochemist at...
    






The Star Wars Holiday Special

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This may well be the worst piece of Bantha poodoo to ever soil U.S. airwaves. Originally broadcast on CBS in 1978 –and then never shown again– the Star Wars Holiday Special was produced by ...
    






Russia’s Economy Is Decelerating Sharply, But It’s Still Close To Full Employment

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Russia’s economy has had a lousy 2013. Estimates of GDP growth have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing week. The current consensus is for full-year growth of 1.4%, but given the...