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The End of Google as You Know It

Google Privacy Policy: The End of Google as You Know It

By consolidating its privacy policies and altering its core product, Google has separated itself from the reason everyone loved it. Before, it was simply the world's greatest search engine. Now, it's just another search bar. The new privacy policy gives Google the ability to monitor activity across all of its services, and I suspect that Google product will continue to bleed into each other. Prepare for the end of Google as you know it.

Generics Take Toll on Pfizer, Lilly Profits

View of Belgian headquarters of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in Brussels
Competition from low-cost generic drugs squeezed quarterly profits at Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. but the drugmakers were able to somewhat weather those declines with help from other medicines.
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Toshiba's 4Q Plunges, Outlook Slashed

Toshiba Corp., Japan's biggest chip maker, booked a 72 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday and slashed its annual profit forecast as a strong yen and the Eurozone debt crisis hit profits.
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Apple is the Leading PC Maker in Q4 2011: Report

Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter for 2011, helped by increasing demand for its iPads, according to a latest report.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with wife Callista (R)

Gingrich Sued for Copyright Infringement for 'Eye of the Tiger' Campaign Song (Video)

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is in trouble as one of the authors of the hit song Eye of the Tiger has sued him for copyright violation.Gingrich has been using the Eye of the Tiger song from Rocky III as his campaign theme anthem since 2009. The lawsuit claiming copyright violation was filed by Frankie Sullivan for his Rude Music Inc., which owns the copyright.
AT&T has entered into a deal with Cerberus Capital Management to sell its struggling Yellow Pages business

AT&T Reorganizes Management Positions

Wireless provider AT&T has put company veteran John Stankey in charge of strategy amid a management reshuffle after its failed attempt to take over Deutsche Telekom's U.S. mobile unit.
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Libya Minister Vows to Protect Investment in Zambian Telecom

Libya will do all it can to protect its 75 percent stake in Zamtel, the fixed-line telecoms firm in Zambia, whose government announced plans last week to seize Libya's stake in the firm, Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour bin Khayyal said Monday.
Stanford arrives at the Federal Court in Houston

Caribbean Bank Regulator Testifies Against Stanford

Allen Stanford, charged with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, sought to have a Antiguan regulator with oversight of his offshore bank dismissed after she rejected a number of the Texas financier's overtures to work together, she testified on Monday.
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S&P Says MF Global Claimed Strength Just Before Collapse

Just a week before futures brokerage MF Global filed for bankruptcy, the firm's chief financial officer told analysts at Standard & Poor's that its capital position had "never been stronger," according to the ratings agency
HP logo is seen outside Hewlett-Packard Belgian headquarters in Diegem

HP Director Babbio to Leave Board

Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday long-time director Larry Babbio Jr. will step down, as the technology giant continues to restructure its much-criticized board.
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Megaupload Shutdown: Why Internet Piracy Will Prevail

Internet piracy can not be stopped. Megaupload had about 150 million registered users when it was shut down. A recent study from the British market intelligence firm Envisional showed that sites like Megaupload, called cyberlockers, made up for 5.1 percent of global bandwidth consumption while BitTorrents made up for 11.4 percent of global bandwidth consumption. The study concludes that piracy prevails because it is easier and more reliable than legitimate alternatives.
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Apple Assigns Dummy Projects to Engineers it Doesn't Trust, Book Says

Wondering how Apple has always managed to keep details about yet-to-be-released products a top secret? Here's how - according to Adam Lashinsky's new book Inside Apple, Apple makes its new hires work on fake projects for several months until the company is certain the new engineer won't leak out its product information.
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Amazon unit may be moving into sporting goods

Amazon.com Inc's Quidsi unit may be getting into sporting goods, challenging retailers in this niche, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Cabela's, analysts at Credit Suisse said Monday.
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli arrives at City of London magistrates' court in the City of London

Ex UBS Trader Adoboli Denies Fraud, Faces Trial

The trial, which is likely to shine a searching light on the adequacy of the bank's management and risk controls, could land Adoboli with a maximum 10-year jail sentence if convicted of the two counts of fraud and two of false accounting.
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Build Your Own Apple: How to Run A Company Like Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs inspired his company to create some of the world's greatest inventions, from computers to smartphones to tablets. But you don't need to work in the tech industry, or wear a black turtleneck and jeans, to run your company like Apple.
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Honda Set to Take Off with 'Civic of the Sky'

Imagined by Honda officials for almost 30 years, the Japanese auto maker is expecting to make its first HondaJet delivery next year, and intends to carve out a 25 percent market share of the world's business jets.
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Big Pharma Donates Drugs for Neglected Diseases

The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organizations Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020.
Spanair

Spanair Ceases Operations, Cites Economic Crisis

Loss-making Spanish airline Spanair ceased operations on Friday night, grounding all its airplanes after its owner, citing the country's economic crisis, said it would not sink any more money into the company.

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