Early Friday, reliable Tokyo media outlets reported consumer electronics giant Panasonic will post a $9.2 billion net annual loss for 2011. Analysts attribute the loss in part to the company’s decision to write-down its acquisition of Sanyo Electric, but they say it derives primarily from extremely weak sales of televisions in the United States...
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Panasonic posts $9.2 billion annual loss.
Facebook IPO updates web-value history.
Facebook Wednesday filed for a stock-offering that promises to make Wall Street and worldwide web history. If Zuckerberg and associates make the $5 billion they expect, theirs will become the largest initial public offering of a web company shares in stock market history. Moreover, sale of the much-coveted stock, which will list on the...
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Penn State University celebrates Coach Joe Paterno’s life, mourns his death.
Pennsylvania State University today concluded its week-long tribute to legendary football coach Joe Paterno, celebrating his life and mourning his loss in a memorial ceremony that featured a number of distinguished alumni from his six decades as head coach, and which ended in an emotional eulogy delivered by the Coach’s son, Jay. Paterno died...
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Costa Concordia death toll rises to twelve
Searching the capsized Costa Concordia Saturday, Italian divers recovered a woman’s body, the twelfth fatality in last week’s cruise ship catastrophe. Although more than twenty people are still missing, the Italian Coast Guard is growing eager to begin serious recovery operations before the massive liner slips from its precarious spot atop a coastal reef. ...
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Casey Anthony back in the news! Why do we watch why do we care
Remember the Casey Anthony trial from 2011? She was acquitted of the murder of her two year old daughter Caylee and then up and disappeared from the public eye! Since then it became a guessing game and an apparent game of hide and seek between her and news people as well as the paparazzi....
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Republicans begin their 2012 trek down the historical trail
Tuesday January 3rd, 2011 marked the official start of a long tedious and very expensive duel that will wind up on November 6th. The Republican caucuses formally kick off the big race every four years and this time there were several surprises thrown in. Front runner Mitt Romney still reigns… so far. And second...
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2011 Recap: The Year of BIG News and Bad Weather
Each year about this time we pause to look back on what the year that is ending brought. When it comes to news items that are of interest to the majority of us we tend to look at celebrities, politicians, sports professionals, weather, and any earth shattering items that were splashed across the headlines...
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Aliahna didn’t go outside by herself! Now her body is found dismembered!
Michael Plumadore admitted in an interview that he did beat 9 year old Aliahna Lemmon to death with a brick by hitting her on the head multiple times. Then, when he needed to dispose of her body, he first hid her in his freezer. Later on he dismembered her little body with a hacksaw,...
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Tom Cruise and his Ghost Protocol rule the holiday box office.
If you were among the millions holding their collective breath, anxiously waiting to see whether or not Tom Cruise still has “It”—the stamina to pull-off a world-saving impossible mission, and the magnetism to pull-in millions at the box office—you may exhale now. The numbers are in, and they leave no doubt that Cruise still...
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Siri on the iPhone 4 Legally
The newest version of the Apple iPhone OS is iOS 5.0.1 launched on December 16, 2011. While the platform update is needed and solid, there is a back door of sorts that, reportedly, leaves the plaform’s RAM disks unencrypted. For those people with a bit of technical knowhow, or the ability to do a...
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