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Lyft Raises $60 Million As Ride Sharing Competition Heats Up - Forbes

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forbes.com - Ride-sharing startup Lyft has raised $60 million in Series C financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding, designed to accelerate growth, ups the ante against other competitors such as Sidecar...

Steve Case's Latest Push to Boost Startups Aims Overseas - Businessweek

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businessweek.com - AOL (AOL) co-founder Steve Case has long been a vocal proponent of immigration reform that would make it easier for U.S. companies to recruit foreign engineering talent. After spending much of yest...

AngelPad’s Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More

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techcrunch.com - AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn’t there (I know, it’s super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with founding pa...

Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements

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techcrunch.com - Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding. The new funding came from previous...

The Next Real Estate Bubble Has Already Begun (But It’s Not What You Think)

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business.time.com - The American public is, for obvious reasons, a bit gun-shy when it comes to asset bubbles. Ever since the financial crisis, market watchers have worried about bubbles in the stock market, in high y...

Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO

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techcrunch.com - Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company’s shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million. Tremor Video, which run...

Japan’s plunge and Fed fears - short view - markets - FT.com

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video.ft.com - 12:44 AM  Japanese shares had their 11th worst day in more than half a century on Thursday. But while the equities fall is a case of correcting a climb that had run too far and too fast, James Mack...

Argentine Court Indicts Three Ex-Ford Executives - WSJ.com

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BBC News - Asian stocks pull back losses after sharp drops

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bbc.co.uk - Shares in Asia have recovered some of the steep falls suffered on Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei index rising 3%. A 17% rise for computer giant Hewlett-Packard helped steady nerves on Wall Street an...

Fidelity: 401(k) Balances Reach Record Highs - Forbes

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forbes.com - Have you checked your 401(k) balance lately? You might be in for a pleasant surprise. Average 401(k) balances reached record highs at the end of the first quarter, according to Fidelity Investments...

Australia Lures $21 Billion Bet on Coal Rebound: Energy Markets - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - Coal’s worst slump in seven years has failed to deter GVK Group and Adani Enterprises Ltd. (ADE) from pressing ahead with a $21 billion bet on Australia’s Galilee Basin as other companies shelve pr...

Barclays aims for redemption - Fortune Management

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management.fortune.cnn.com - FORTUNE – Most corporate annual reports specialize in self-promotion and accentuating the positive. But the 2012 annual report of Barclays reads like a mea culpa. When Barclays (BCS) was fined a wh...

Nikkei May 24 - Business Insider

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businessinsider.com - Now everyone's concerned that the great Abenomics rally is unwinding.

Taper This! Bernanke Makes It Clear QE Tapering Isn't Happening Any Time Soon - Forbes

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forbes.com - Speaking before Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted the economy is improving, but made it clear that he has no intention of tapering quantitative easing.  The Chairman attributed much of t...

Bernanke for dummies: Some keys to help decipher the chairman's message - The Tell - MarketWatch

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blogs.marketwatch.com - In the wake of the market’s whipsaw reaction to comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday, here are some keys to decipher the Fed’s message. In his first comments on Wednesday, Bernanke ...

Most popular American brands in China - Slide Show - MarketWatch

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marketwatch.com - By 2030, roughly two-thirds of the world’s middle class will be in the Asia Pacific region—largely in China—according to a report by Ernst & Young. Currently at around 150 million people, the Chine...

New startups are prime targets for cyberattacks - May. 23, 2013

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money.cnn.com - Cyberattackers can sniff out new businesses to target as quickly as two months after they come into existence, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Symantec (SYMC, Fortune 500). By the...

Before and After the Tornado -- Slider - WSJ.com

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Standard Chartered Taps Asean’s Rich for Growth: Southeast Asia - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - Standard Chartered Plc (STAN), which generates more than three quarters of operating profit in Asia, will tap rising demand for wealth management products in Southeast Asia to bolster growth, Chief...

Beware of that hedge fund in the window - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet

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finance.fortune.cnn.com - FORTUNE -- Hedge funds soon will be allowed to advertise their wares to potential clients, thanks to a provision in last year's JOBS Act (which had no direct relation to actual jobs). As will priva...

Why the pay-TV model faces a millennial threat - J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All - MarketWatch

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marketwatch.com - J.J. Zhang is a chemical engineer and amateur financial adviser who was the winner in MarketWatch’s second annual World’s Next Great Investing Columnist contest. He runs the blog MarketTech Reports...

BBC News - JP Morgan fined £3m for advice failings

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bbc.co.uk - JP Morgan's international bank division has been fined £3m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The fine is for failures in the way it advised some of its wealthiest clients and maintained rec...

These Companies Really Do Want to Make Your Life Better (GOOG, LF, SODA, WFM)

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fool.com - Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service today. As an investor, I always love finding companies that positively shape the way w...

Penny Pritzker Understated Income by $80 Million - WSJ.com

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Nextdoor Brings Its Neighborhood-Focused Social Network To The iPhone With Debut Of Native iOS App

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techcrunch.com - Nextdoor, the company that lets people interact with their local neighbors on private social networks, has launched its first native mobile app for iOS, Nextdoor for the iPhone. The launch comes am...

Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - Google Inc. (GOOG) is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb c...

Jobless claims drop more than expected - NBC News.com

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nbcnews.com - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, pointing to resilience in the labor market despite belt-tightening by Washington. Initial clai...

Live Stream | Harvard University

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harvard.edu - Welcome to Harvard University's Live Stream page. Please check back often to see what upcoming University events will be streamed live on this site. The schedule will be regularly updated. In the m...

Watch out. The mortgage securities market is at it again. - May. 23, 2013

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money.cnn.com - MORE: 3 surprising reasons to cheer falling commodities We thought the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law fixed all this by requiring securitizers to keep some skin in the game. Under the law, for eve...

Factory activity slips to seven-month low in May: Markit

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reuters.com - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manufacturing slowed for a second straight month in May as weak overseas demand and government belt-tightening at home led to the sector's most sluggish rate of growth since Oc...

NASDAQ-100 Pre-Market Indicator (PMI) - NASDAQ.com

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nasdaq.com - The Nasdaq-100 Pre-Market Indicator and the Nasdaq-100 After Hours Indicator are based on the same calculation used by the Nasdaq-100 Index during regular market hours � with key differences: Track...

Ford Stock: Great News for Investors (F)

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fool.com - Finally the stock market has taken notice of the improvements CEO Alan Mulally and team have made at Ford (NYSE: F  ) , sending the stock from its 52-week low of $8.82 a share up to $15 recently. I...

Potential Setback for Apple in E-Books Case - WSJ.com

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Kuroda Struggles With Communications Test as Bond Yields Climb - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - Haruhiko Kuroda may need to talk his way out of a paradox he helped create. Installed as head of the Bank of Japan in March, Kuroda aims to unlock borrowing and spending by lifting inflation expect...

PokerStars, Online Gambling Bet on Return to U.S. - WSJ.com

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online.wsj.com - ONCHAN, Isle of Man—It takes an hour by plane and almost three by ferry to reach this island-country smack in the middle of the Irish Sea. Here, on top of a bluff with magnificent views, is a moder...

Europe’s Lost Keynesians by Kenneth Rogoff - Project Syndicate

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project-syndicate.org - CAMBRIDGE – There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone’s woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising. Commentato...

10 big short squeezes besides Tesla - Slide Show - MarketWatch

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marketwatch.com - Intraday Data provided by SIX Financial Information and subject to terms of use. Historical and current end-of-day data provided by SIX Financial Information. Intraday data delayed per exchange req...

Jobless claims fall, point to stronger May job market - May. 23, 2013

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money.cnn.com - First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, signaling the job market may have improved in May. About 340,000 people filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, ac...

A World of Debt: Track Global Debt Levels - Real Time Economics - WSJ

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blogs.wsj.com - Asian nations are amassing debt, according to an article in today’s Journal, but the whole world has boosted borrowing in the past decade. In an interactive graphic, you can watch as some nations b...

This 46,000-Pound Lego Model Is World's Largest: Video - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Deirdre Bolton looks at the building of a 46,000 pound Lego Star Wars model on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves." (Source: Bloomberg)

Game Over: Dan Loeb Wins the Console Wars

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finance.yahoo.com - Sony (SNE), Nintendo (NTDOY) and Microsoft (MSFT) each spent the better part of eight years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing hardware for the next generation of gaming consoles. Indiv...

The Budget Deficit Is Collapsing

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fool.com - Raise your hand if you saw this coming: The federal budget deficit is collapsing. I mean really, it's in freefall. The Congressional Budget Office lowered its estimate of this year's budget deficit...

IRS Official Lerner Placed on Administrative Leave - WSJ.com

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U.S. options clearer moves to end trade type dominated by Nasdaq

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reuters.com - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The clearinghouse for all stock options said Thursday it will adopt a policy aimed at abolishing a dividend-linked trading strategy that critics say could destabilize mark...

Austerity’s Vicious Cycle Spurs Record Cash Hoarding By U.S. Companies

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thinkprogress.org - Big corporations have been stockpiling cash rather than investing in expansions to their operations for years, but a report Thursday indicates that recovery-bridling behavior is worsening in 2013. ...

Japan $314 Billion Rout Tests Topix Bulls Who Pushed Gain - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - The biggest drop in Japanese shares since the 2011 earthquake erased $314 billion in market value, shaking bulls who pushed the Topix Index to five-year highs and highlighting their vulnerability t...

Are Markets Overreacting to Bernanke’s Testimony?: Video - Bloomberg

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bloomberg.com - May 23 (Bloomberg) -- On "The Real Deal," Michael McKee reports on market reaction to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop...

Tech Titans Are the New Masters of the Universe, Be Afraid: Kotkin

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finance.yahoo.com - When Steve Jobs died, Occupy Wall Street was in full effect. Yet those who were fighting for wealth equality and the end of the banking oligarchy held a moment of silence in honor of the Apple co-f...

If Corporate Profits Are at an All-Time High, Why Are Corporate Taxes Near a 60-Year Low? - Atlantic Mobile

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theatlantic.com - Apple is a unique company in many ways, but when it comes to the cavernous difference between its historically high profits and its relatively low corporate tax rate, the company isn't an outlier. ...

GameStop Earnings: Cost Cuts Slow Erosion - WSJ.com

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