“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
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A medical devices manufacturer might spend millions of dollars over several years improving an old hospital standby--a bedside monitor, say, which measures blood pressure, heart rate, or blood-oxygen levels, and which sounds an alarm when a patient's vitals go awry. The manufacturer might program the gadget to distinguish between real alarms, ...
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Fast Company
This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper's first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band Kiss as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKiss. Agency Deutsch wanted to emphasize Dr. Pepper's "little kiss" of cherry. According to Dr. Pepper, the bands have met before, but this was their first offical performance. Look for the ...
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a proposed bill that is designed to bolster federal cybersecurity research and development activities, and stimulate the growth of a cybersecurity workforce in the country.
 
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Talking medicine, checklists and alternative music with New Yorker staff writer and surgeon Atul Gawande
Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.
Ironically, Flash was originally designed for pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off. Flash exists now only due to its finding an alternate route in its use -- first filling a niche on the Web by enabling low-bandwidth vector graphics in the early days and then rapidly adding new capabilities over the past ...
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Brasília (01/02/2010) – O Ibama acaba de emitir a Licença Prévia da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, no rio Xingu (PA), com 40 condicionantes abrangendo questões relativas à qualidade da água, fauna, saneamento básico, população atingida, compensações sociais e recuperação de áreas já degradadas, entre outras. O projeto da ...
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For the first time in 59 years, the men’s basketball team finds itself ranked among college basketball’s elite –– appearing in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll at No. 25. Cornell received 53 votes from the panel of 31 Division 1 coaches, and is also on the bubble of the Associated Press top 25 poll –– occupying the second spot of “ ...
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McCormick (NYSE: MKC) is serving up some impressive cooking with four consecutive years of double-digit comparable-earnings growth. That feat seems even more impressive, considering that one of those years was 2008 -- a tough year for the market, to say the least.
[Rahm] Emanuel used a non-PC term in a private meeting. I have done the same thing before, as have many people I have met privately with [" Sarah Palin Embraces 'Retarded' Political Correctness ," usnews.com].
 
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Just when you thought that the iPhone and iPad had consumed everyone’s attention, Pennsylvania-based luxury home builder Toll Brothers has created a music-themed bedroom around iPod-themed elements. As shown in the pictures found below, this music enthusiast’s bedroom, features roughly 2.5-foot-diameter iPod Click Wheels on both the floor and ...
Investors are always hunting for the next big stock -- the dream stock whose price increases several times over when the market finally discovers it. It's easy to look back and discover the 10 best stocks of the past decade. But I'm more interested in the tools that can help me evaluate tomorrow's greatest companies.
WASHINGTON — The military's top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."
Do you believe in Santa Claus? How about the Easter Bunny, magical unicorns, and leprechauns with pots o' gold? If so, then you're probably also … well, at least open to the possibility that the pundits are right, and President Obama has his heart set on gutting the U.S. defense budget.
The number of Americans signing home sales contracts flattened out in December after plunging the previous month. The National Association of Realtors' pending home sales index—which gages signed contracts but not transaction closings—inched up 1 percent from November to December and stands at nearly 11 percent above its year-earlier ...
Some stocks are one-hit wonders, making a big splash when they first appear, then quickly fizzling into obscurity or oblivion. But for other stocks, that initial big move is only a preview for even bigger and better gains to come.
The stock market and its investors have at least one thing in common: They're both prone to turn on a dime when the mood of the market changes. But whether the rally continues or stocks turn back downward, take heart -- you'll still have a chance to come out ahead in the long run.
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