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Potatoes the new enemy, Should we spud the spud from our diets?

Fast food, soda, potato chips, cookies. Fat, carbs, sugar. We've heard it all at one time or another, this makes you fat. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports how much weight a person is likely to gain or lose over four years based on one additional daily serving of a range of specific foods. Is it really potato chips that contribute to overweight and obesity?
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NYC Cab Drivers Protest Bloomberg's Bill Move

This Monday the Steps of City Hall New York staged the protest of hundred of cab drivers opposing the bill proposed by Mayor Bloomberg in Albany. The bill aims at the allowing livery car drivers to pick up passengers in certain parts of New York City, which is currently only legal for yellow cabs.
Facebook Project Spartan:  revolutionary or laughable?

Facebook Project Spartan: revolutionary or laughable?

Facebook's announcement of an Apple iPad 2 app launch stirred excitement among both sides along with signaling an end to some disagreements the two companies experienced in the past. That was the case until rumors of a secret Facebook project codenamed Spartan emerged with details on how the social network giant will utilize HTML 5 web platform standards onto mobile apps currently stationed on Apple's app store and Safari browsers.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens to a question from the audience in San Francisco

Is China the next destination for Facebook?

Social networking site Facebook lost a significant number of its users in the US in May, raising fears over the site’s user base reaching saturation levels in the country.
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Depression? No. Depressed? Yes!

Yesterday, a highly valued client of ours posed this question to us: ”Do you think that we are headed towards a depression?” It is not clear to me what event triggered the question, but my answer was a resounding “No”.
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Nearly 28 pct American firms using cloud computing

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application
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5 Common sense must-have tips for your business

There's still no app for good old-fashioned common sense, that is something no one in business can afford to be without, says Michael Feuer, cofounder and former CEO of OfficeMax and author of the new book The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition.

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