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  • Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school

    Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ...

  • Yahoo reboots Flickr offers 1 terabyte of storage

    Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ...

  • How Apple sidestepped U.S. taxes The Senates version

    "The hearing will examine how Apple Inc., a U.S. multinational corporation, has used a variety of offshore structures, arrangements, and transactions to shift billions of dollars in profits away from the United States and into Ireland, where Apple has negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than two percent. One of Apple's more unusual tactics has been to establish and direct ...

  • Apple set for DC tax fight

    Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill Tuesday amid harsh criticism following a Senate ...

  • Dish eyes LightSquareds Spectrum for $2 billion - Bloomberg

    (Reuters) - U.S. satellite company Dish Network Corp has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc's radio frequencies for $2 billion, Bloomberg said, quoting people familiar with the ...


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La Commare secca [DVD]

La Commare secca [DVD]

A little more than a decade before the notorious masterpiece Last Tango in Paris (1972) guaranteed his place in cinema history, Bernardo Bertolucci was a 20-year-old assistant to legendary writer/poet/filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. The next year, he was literally handed the ... ...

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  • Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centers

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the ...

  • Flickrs new $499.99 per year Doublr service explained

    (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Yahoo on Monday increased the amount of storage Flickr users get by 70-fold, and at the same time quietly introduced a new pro tier that costs users 20 times as much as the one it replaces. That ...

  • Flickrs free terabyte not big enough

    languish with a fresh coat of paint and a free terabyte of space. Too bad today's photo-sharer has found a home elsewhere and is already accustomed to free. Monday at a press event in New York, Yahoo announced major changes ...

  • NY official Airbnb stay illegal host fined $2400

    (Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET) New York City officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb should pay $2,400 for violating the city's illegal hotel law, despite Airbnb stepping in on the host's behalf. The city initially asked host Nigel Warren ...

  • Google Checkout to check out

    blog post Monday . Even though Checkout was replaced by Wallet in 2011, it still has been an option for those merchants who are adamant about using the old service in their operations. But on November 20, that will come to an end. Google said by that time merchants who use Checkout will have two options: (1) move to another service, such as Google partners Braintree, Shopify, or Freshbooks, if ...

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