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U.S. activists eye Canadian proxy battles

More U.S. investors are targeting Canadian companies for proxy battles to boost the value of their stakes, encouraged by favorable laws and activist attacks on such blue chips as Canadian Pacific Railway and Research In Motion.
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Megaupload Effect: FileSonic Stops File Sharing Too

Megaupload Shutdown Ignites Fire Against Anti-Piracy Crackdown

Megaupload is reportedly part of one of the biggest criminal copyright infringement networks U.S. authorities have ever taken down. Seven people were indicted by a Virginia grand jury Jan. 19, and charged with racketeering, money laundering and other charges. Megaupload was allegedly using the Web site as a front for black market content swapping, and had many legitimate users on the site sharing many kinds of legal content. Members who felt cheated out of their money took to Facebook and Twitte...
While iBooks 2 has the potential to revolutionize the education industry, Apple's current hardware restricts what the software can really do. This will change with the release of the iPad 3.

Why The iPad 3 is Key to Apple's iBooks 2 Success

Apple unveiled three new pieces of education software on Thursday -- iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U -- to collectively kill the school textbook once and for all. Despite this brilliant move, the hardware restrictions of the iPad 2 hold back the power of the iBooks software. This will change with the iPad 3.
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Wall Street slips on GE and Google

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq dipped on Friday after a pair of bellwether companies' earnings fell short of lofty expectations, though a trio of strong results from Dow components kept the blue-chip average in positive territory.
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Google shares slide; analysts stay upbeat

Shares of Google Inc fell 8 percent after the Internet giant's quarterly earnings missed estimates as money paid by marketers for its search ads fell for the first time in two years.
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Republican Debate Recap: Highlights from South Carolina

In case you missed the Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C., Thursday night, here are the highlights, from Newt Gingrich's opening tirade against moderator John King of CNN to Ron Paul's defense of leaving abortion laws to the states.
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Clock Stops on Scrapping Leap Seconds

Time experts were deadlocked on Thursday over whether to scrap "leap seconds" which are occasionally added to clocks to stop them running ahead of the sun.
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Has Portugal's debt default clock begun to tick?

Portugal clinched a deal on ambitious labor market reforms this week and carried out its biggest debt sale since seeking a 78-billion-euro bailout, but the challenges for the second-most risky country in the euro zone may be shifting up a gear.
Kim Schmitz Megaupload

Who is Kim Schmitz? Megaupload Founder Had $23M Home, 18 Luxury Vehicles and Lots of Cash

Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and otherwise known by his alias Kim Dotcom, was arrested by the Department of Justice Thursday for content piracy and losses to copyright owners that amount to $500 million. Schmitz was found by police in his New Zealand mansion's safe room, with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said.
Smoke rises from burning grass at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008.

2011 Was Ninth-Warmest Year Since 1880: NASA

The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
Customers wait at a Verizon Wireless store in Boca Raton, Florida February 10, 2011. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Verizon Wireless, Partners Resist Sprint, DirecTV

Verizon Wireless and its cable partners are willing to give U.S. communication regulators confidential details of their agreement but objected to a request for information from Sprint Nextel (S.N), DirecTV (DTV.O), T-Mobile USA and others.
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Wall St slips on GE, Google results

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged lower on Friday after GE and Google results fell short of expectations, while investors awaited a resolution in the latest round of Greek debt talks.
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Microsoft's Windows Battles Slack PC Sales

Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business.

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