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Take Five: Name that city
I want to sell La Caņada Flintridge. I don’t mean sell as in public relations or advertising “selling.” Our chamber does a fine job promoting LCF. What I mean is selling the entire city. Before you tune me out, please read the rest of...Tags: Chevron Corportion, Google Inc., Chevy Chase, Washington, DC
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City to make e-mail change
Rather than replace an outdated and overworked server that threatens to bring e-mails at City Hall to a sudden halt, La Caņada Flintridge officials are looking to a very 21st-century solution: cloud computing. The cloud-computing strategy will replace...Tags: Google Inc., Los Angeles, Arts and Culture, Computer Networking and Internet, Colleges and Universities
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In Brazil, Domino's makes rented DVDs smell like pizza
Don't forget the napkins when you watch a DVD in Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Domino's has teamed up with 10 rental stores to use movie DVDs for an unusual marketing push. Users pop in a rented DVD like they would any other, and after...Tags: Apple iTunes, Netflix Inc., Marketing, Brazil, Argo (movie)
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Yahoo plans announcement Monday in N.Y., Tumblr's hometown
Yahoo is set to hold a news conference Monday, and many believe the company might announce it is acquiring Tumblr. Rumors began swirling Friday about the possible acquisition, saying Yahoo is interested in buying Tumblr, a social network whose...
Tags: Marissa Mayer, Google Inc., Computer Hardware, New York City, Social Media
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End of smallpox
Although polio has been reduced to its lowest level in history, three countries still have polio transmission — Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year 223 polio cases were reported. So far in 2013 there have been 19 cases, according to the...Tags: National Government, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Health Organizations, Pakistan
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Fake Chrome ad from Microsoft mocks Google
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.For months, Microsoft has been going after Google with its Scroogled ad campaign, but a new ad that reportedly came from Microsoft is the harshest yet. [Updated, 2:46 p.m. May 17: A spokesman for Microsoft has confirmed that the company did make the...Tags: Media Industry, Google Inc., Computer Hardware, O
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Razor-sharp ad ideas
This story starts at a point in time that most observers predicted it would end. The year was 2002. The Internet party was long over. Pets.com and other high-flying digital darlings were defunct. It was the dark days for the few survivors of the dot-com...
Tags: Online Advertising, Consumer Goods Industries, Authors, Tesco plc, Business
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog:’ New game to be among Nintendo exclusives
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been corrected, as indicated below. “Sonic Lost World,” the latest adventure to feature Sonic the Hedgehog, will […]... -
Will Yahoo splurge on $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr?
SAN FRANCISCO -- Will Yahoo buy Tumblr? That's the $1-billion question du jour courtesy of All Things D. The struggling Internet giant is reportedly in serious talks to buy the blogging service in a deal that could be worth as much as $1 billion....Tags: Marissa Mayer, Media Industry, Google Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world
He may be retired, but that's not kept Bill Gates from regaining the top spot as the richest man in the world. Gates, 57, who co-founded and led Microsoft to the top of the tech world before retiring from day-to-day operations in 2008, has a fortune...
Tags: Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Bill Gates
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Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world
Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...
Tags: Science and Technology, Xbox 360, Amazon.com Inc., Entertainment, Siren (music group)
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Would novelists want to be friends with Humbert Humbert?
In a widely circulated interview with Publishers Weekly, writer Claire Messud was asked if she would want to be friends with the protagonist of her new novel, "The Woman Upstairs." She responded with frustration: "For heaven’s sake, what kind of...
Tags: Jonathan Franzen, Authors, Google+, Donald Antrim, Social Media
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