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Disney Sells Miramax for $660 Million to Private Investors

Sam Gustin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0000

Disney will reportedly sell the storied arthouse-film studio to a consortium that includes several big real estate players. This brings the curtain down on founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein's attempts to buy the company back from Disney.

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Disney Sells Miramax for $660 Million to Private Investors originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:30:00.

Filed Under: Company News, Media, Walt Disney

Search Agency Update – What Are Companies Up To?

Liva Judic — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:27:25 +0000

Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: YouTube, Kenshoo & SapientNitro, ClickEquations, Wolfram|Alpha and more

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Senate Republicans Block Small Business Aid Bill

Sam Gustin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Republican senators blocked a vote on a bill to provide aid for small businesses, using procedural tactics to stymie President Obama's election-year agenda. Each side accused the other of playing politics.

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Senate Republicans Block Small Business Aid Bill originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00.

Filed Under: Economy, Small Business

Facebook Questions Challenging Search Engines And LBS

Liva Judic — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:45:25 +0000

Facebook Questions beta is the social site's most recent feature launch. It allows users to crowdsource their own questions by submitting them to all of Facebook's 500 million users as well as to all their friends. This seemingly 'innocent' feature is in fact a powerful tool that challenges all 'traditional' search engines, photo search engines and location-based services. Here's why.

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Small Business News: We Need You

Small Business News — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:49 +0000

We need you, small business owners and entrepreneurs. To start new businesses and create new jobs. To drag us out of this long recession and into new prosperity with new ideas and new vision. In fact, there are some things we all could do to help so that small business can do what they do best, create value and new opportunities. It’s up to you small business leaders. Here are some ideas we hope will get you started.

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House Prices rolling over Down Under?

CalculatedRisk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:14:00 +0000

I don't follow house prices in Australia ... or Canada ... but I'm asked all the time (my answer is always: I don't know!)But for those interested, here is an article from the Business Spectator: House prices fall 0.7% in June, flat in quarter (ht Mr ...

Skull Security Offers Up 100 Million Facebook Profiles to Anybody

Dawn Kawamoto — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 +0000

Facebook's been beaten to a pulp over privacy issues, but the latest flap is Skull Security's doing. The Internet security consultant has collected 100 million Facebook user profiles and offered them up to the rest of the world for free.

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Skull Security Offers Up 100 Million Facebook Profiles to Anybody originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00.

Filed Under: Technology, Facebook

Google Blames Glitch for China Blockage Report

Sam Gustin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Google caused a stir Thursday night by saying that Chinese access to its search engine had been "fully blocked" -- only to back down hours later and say that its systems had likely overestimated the extent of a minor outage. Service has been restored.

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Google Blames Glitch for China Blockage Report originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:00.

Filed Under: Technology, Google

Shirley Sherrod Vows to Sue Andrew Breitbart over Racism Smear

Jeff Bercovici — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department employee who lost her job after a conservative website painted her as a racist, is planning a lawsuit in what could be a landmark case for the blogosphere.

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Shirley Sherrod Vows to Sue Andrew Breitbart over Racism Smear originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:00:00.

Filed Under: People, Media

ATA Truck Tonnage Index declines in June

CalculatedRisk — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:56:00 +0000

From the American Trucking Association: ATA Truck Tonnage Index Fell 1.4 Percent in JuneThe American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 1.4 percent in June, although May’s reduction was re...