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Microsoft Considers Bidding for Yahoo

Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.
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Stateless income: David Cay Johnston

From the way Washington politicians in both parties tell it, you may well think that multinational companies favor low-tax jurisdictions when investing overseas. They don't.
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Apple iPhone 5: Top 10 Most-Wanted Features Recap [PHOTOS]

The imminent release of Apple’s latest product on Tuesday has customers musing on their wishlists for the new iPhone. Mobile advertising network inMobi announced recently that results of their iPhone-focused study indicate that a staggering 41 percent of mobile users in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada intend to buy the iPhone 5, if Apple does indeed release a next-generation product.
More than 20,000 Mormon faithful sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Conference Center during the third session of their 179th annual general conference in Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saints launch I'm a Mormon ad campaign

The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.
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Reebok to Pay $25 mln for Toning Shoe Claims

Reebok International Ltd has agreed to pay $25 million to settle charges that it made unsupported claims that its toning shoes help wearers get fit faster, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Profit View Lowered at Global Equities Research

Global Equities Research has reduced its profit and estimate of Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), saying the internet firm is still losing advertising dollars on display and search properties to Google and other sites.
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Freida Pinto versus L'Oreal: Guilty of Skin Lightening?

Freida Pinto's, the face of L'Oreal since 2009, skin seems to be noticeably lighter in a new advertisement for the L'Oreal Colors Take Flight make-up than the actress' natural shading. This is not the first time the company has come under fire.
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'FarmVille' Gets Political

The digital day laborers of Zynga's FarmVille may be getting more to do then tend their cyber-crops. Facebook users may be able to put up political signs and canvas their digital neighbors for real life political candidates, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Shark Attack 2011: Shark Bites Man in Florida, PETA Goes on Attack

In the latest Shark Attack 2011, a 21-year-old Longboat Key, Florida man bitten by a shark over the weekend has reportedly undergone surgery and will likely return home within a week. But now the man and his actions that apparently led to the shark attack is now being attacked by PETA, organization for the ethical treatment of animals said.
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Will QR Codes Take Over Advertising?

Have you been noticing square blocks while driving by billboards, flipping through newspaper ads, or even receiving a tech-saavy friend's business card? Short for Quick Response codes, it's a new form of barcode-like technology that lots of marketing agencies are paying attention to now.
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Yahoo: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

The long-beleaguered search engine company Yahoo! Inc. would probably be better off selling off pieces of itself rather than submit to a takeover in whole, given that the separate segments of the firm probably have more value than the sum of the individual parts. However, any such potential transaction won’t happen overnight.

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