url='http://nowtnews.com/05517/stubhub-increases-revenue-20-over-last-year/';size='small';Giant ticketseller Stubhub’s growth has expanded 20% this year as compared to last year according to Reuters.  The eBay subsidiary has seen its second quarter sales increase drastically this year and expects another potential 20% increase to take place this year as well. Although ticket prices have generally gone down, ticket volume has gone...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05503/apple-q3-earnings-report-drowns-out-antenna-complaints/';size='small';Last Friday morning, Steve Jobs humbly confessed, “We’re not perfect, phones aren’t perfect. But we want to make all our users happy.” The confession finally put rumors of super-human powers to rest, and Jobs’s subsequent announcement that Apple would supply free “bumpers” to unhappy iPhone 4 customers put most other extravagant rumors to rest,...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05499/awesomely-cool-inception-mystifies-viewers/';size='small';Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page can sell tons of tickets to even the most oblique, esoteric, and bizarre motion picture in decades. Witness the fact that they earned more than $60 million(usd) over the weekend despite audiences’ wholehearted agreement that Inception is by far the weirdest and least comprehensible movie since The Matrix, maybe...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05495/visit-los-angeles-summer-on-sale/';size='small';An old joke says that being the Los Angeles weathercaster is the easiest job in the world, because the forecast is always the same.  Christmas or the Fourth of July, the forecast reads, “Late night and early morning clouds and fog followed by brilliant afternoon sunshine.  Highs in the 70’s at the beaches, the...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05492/cap-holds-on-bp-oil-well-obama-holds-off-celebration/';size='small';A surge of almost irrepressible joy ran through dedicated well-watchers Thursday afternoon.  In the newsroom, all the tickers lit-up and the alarms went off as the news services and cable networks simultaneously broke the story: The blown-out BP oil well is capped, and the video feeds show no oil leaking into the Gulf of...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05489/apple-to-address-iphone-complaints/';size='small';Well informed sources reported Thursday that Apple officials will call a Friday press conference, probably to discuss its answer to customers’ repeated complaints about the new iPhone 4’s antenna design.  Several well-informed sources claimed that Apple would not recall iPhones, because they want to preserve their reputation for quality and durability.  The glitch, originally...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05487/summer-television-engaging-characters-and-complicated-plots/';size='small';TNT bills its summer line-up as “100 Days of Drama,” and some snarky pundits suggest that BP ought to borrow the phrase as the promo for the ongoing oil catastrophe.  Some television critics suggest that it’s more like 100 days of feel-good escapism, but against the backdrop of a recession that will not recede...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05484/latest-bp-cap-attempt-on-hold/';size='small';BP has installed a new, better-fitting cap on the runaway Gulf oil well, equipping it with vents and outlet links that will enable either complete stoppage or “producing the oil”—attaching pipes to collection ships that can handle more than the well spills each day. Retired Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the oil...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05481/world-cup-wrap-up-spain-downs-dutch-in-overtime/';size='small';The hometown fans, recalling their nation’s Dutch heritage and their own Dutch roots, favoured the boys from the Netherlands, turning out in the Dutch national kits and colors.  The skirmish with the well-prepared and exquisitely coached Spaniards kept the 85,000 noisy fans on the edges of their seats in Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, going...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05478/glee-full-emmy-nominations-announced/';size='small';Of course, “The Pacific,” HBO’s much-acclaimed mini-series collected 24 Emmy nominations yesterday.  Hardly headline news, because even the palm trees on Guadalcanal expected at least that many accolades.  The newcomers made the big news: “Glee,” Fox’s funny and frolicking super-hit, gathered 19 nominations; and “Modern Family,” ABC’s brilliantly written and exquisitely acted Wednesday night...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05473/world-cup-update-world-cup-gets-serious-semi-final-play-begins/';size='small';In the first of two semi-final rounds, the Netherlands kick-off Tuesday against underdog Uruguay, the sole remaining South American squad in the tournament.  Sixteenth-ranked and out-manned by just about every measure, the surprising Uruguay squad looks to upstage the Dutch squad by scoring the championship’s biggest upset.  The Dutch boys expect to continue their...
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url='http://nowtnews.com/05471/i-phone-sales-approach-two-million/';size='small';Anticipating “brisk” sales, Apple ramped-up production and staffing for the biggest product roll-out in the company’s history.  Even with reinforcements, production and sales staffs barely could keep pace with demand.  Apple had sold out of iPhone 4 models in white before the end of pre-sales.  Today, just one week after the product’s launch, sales...
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