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The Legacy Of McDonald's CEO Don Thompson In One Awful Chart (MCD)
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson is out.In a statement Wednesday night, McDonald's announced that Thompson would retire on March 1 after 25 years with the company, including the last two-plus years as CEO....
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Kobe Bryant Wanted To Team Up With Michael Jordan On The Wizards
Kobe Bryant has cemented his legacy as a Los Angeles Laker after 19 years with the team.But over a decade ago, Bryant almost left the Lakers because he wanted to team up with Michael Jordan on the...
View ArticleWatch This Utterly Amazing Video From GoPro's New Slow-Mo Camera (GPRO)
We're getting our first look at GoPro's new slo-mo camera function, thanks to a YouTube video by Brent Rose, writing for Gizmodo.GoPro let Rose test out new firmware for its Hero4 camera that enables...
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McDonald's replaces CEO after poor sales
New York (AFP) - Fast-food giant McDonald's replaced president and chief executive Donald Thompson on Wednesday, after the company turned in another poor quarter of sales and earnings last week.The...
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Raul Castro Says The US Must Return Guantanamo Bay Before Ties Are Normalized
The US is currently in the process of negotiating its new diplomatic and economic relationship with Cuba, reversing a decades-old US embargo on the island's communist government.There are a lot of big...
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Why Massive Sinkholes Open In The Ground Without Warning — Swallowing Cars,...
Just before midnight one February evening, a giant hole in the earth swallowed Rachel Wicker's brother-in-law, Jeffrey Bush. His body was never found.Had she known what was about to happen that night,...
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook's Plan To Bring The Internet To Everyone (FB)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked to defend Internet.org, the company's non-profit partnership to spread internet access across the world, on Wednesday's earnings call."Why do you think...
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Witness Says He Made $60,000 A Month Selling Heroin Online Through Silk Road
Silk Road was an online black market for all kinds of contraband goods. The FBI shut it down in October 2013.Today in a federal court in Manhattan, one former Silk Road user says he made $60,000 to...
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Samsung's Q4 Profit Plummets
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung on Thursday reported its first annual earnings decline in three years, as strong chip earnings failed to make up for weakness in the South Korean giant's smartphone...
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Comcast Apologizes For Calling A Customer A Nasty Name On His Bill (CMCSA)
Ricardo Brown didn't have to wonder what Comcast thought of him.Someone at the company changed his name to a not-very-nice word and then mailed him his monthly bill.His wife, Lisa, was shocked and...
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Police bullet fragments killed Sydney cafe siege victim
Sydney (Australia) (AFP) - One of the two hostages who died in a 16-hour siege at a Sydney cafe in December was killed by ricochets of a police bullet or bullets, an inquest into the deadly stand-off...
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IS issues new threat to kill Jordanian pilot
Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group has used Japanese hostage Kenji Goto to relay a new threat to kill a Jordanian pilot, unless Amman hands over a female hostage, monitoring group SITE Intelligence...
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I Still Think Joining A Fraternity Was One Of The Best Decisions I've Ever Made
Disclosure: I was in a fraternity in college. Further disclosure: It was one of the best decisions I made in my four years on campus.My second semester at Cornell University — where about a quarter of...
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Businesses That Update Their Apps Frequently See More App-Store Success, And...
Sure, every consumer-facing businesses should invest in an app. But executives struggle to decide how much to invest in maintaining their smartphone apps, particularly in ongoing updates. Is it worth...
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ISIS May Have Just Given Japan Another Ominous Deadline
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government is analyzing a purported new voice recording in which a Japanese journalist held captive by Islamic State says a Jordanian pilot also in their custody will be...
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Pochettino calls for Spurs killer instinct
Sheffield (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Mauricio Pochettino said he was proud of his Tottenham Hotspur players after they reached the League Cup final but challenged his players to learn to "kill...
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Aussie footballer Cahill dodges retirement talk
Sydney (AFP) - Australia's talisman Tim Cahill brushed off retirement talk before the Asian Cup final and cannily labelled South Korea favourites as he indulged in some mind games on Thursday.The...
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Taylor Swift Just Trademarked A Bunch Of Phrases From Her Latest Album
Taylor Swift had a huge 2014.She released a new album, and basically dominated American pop culture across multiple forms of media.She's also become quite a figure in the entertainment business....
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Facebook beats forecasts with strong profit gains
San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook said profit soared on the wings of mobile ad revenue but stressed it is more concerned with investing in the future than making quick cash.While earnings figures...
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Check Out This Futuristic Hospital With Roaming Robots Funded By Salesforce...
On Thursday, the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay held a press event to celebrate the opening of three new facilities, including the Benioff Children’s Hospital, named after Salesforce CEO Marc...
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