We Are the World Wide Web! Happy 25th Birthday, Dot-Com
Mar 12, 2010 Object
On March 15, 1985, a computer company in Cambridge, Mass., registered the very first dot-com site. There were six by the end of the year. And 25 years later, a hundred thousand sites are registered every day, and it’s hard to remember life without it, 25 years ago.
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Retail Sales Rise as Shoppers Brave the Storms
Mar 12, 2010 Object
Retail sales rose unexpectedly in February, despite brutal weather throughout the country. Retail and food services sales rose to $355.5 billion, up 0.3% from January and 3.9% from February 2009. Excluding auto sales, totals were up 4.2% from the year-ago month and retail sales only were up 4.4%. Auto sales were up 2.1% above February 2009.
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Retail Sales Rise as Shoppers Brave the Storms originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00.
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Sales Are Down, But Profits Are Up for Books-A-Million
Books-A-Million, the country’s third-largest retail bookstore chain, released its fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, and the news was something of a split decision. Sales dropped 4.6% to $157.2 million, but profits were up $11.9 million — a 30.1% increase.
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Fund Focus: Investing in Troubled Manufacturers Pays Off
Mar 12, 2010 Object
The Delafield Fund invests in the troubled manufacturers of Middle America, but it has more than doubled its clients’ money over the past year. The fund has more than 46% of its assets in industrials, which is about triple the amount held by similar funds in the value universe.
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E-Trade Says Lindsay Lohan’s $100 Million Lawsuit Is ‘Without Merit’
Mar 11, 2010 Object
E-Trade, the giant online brokerage, says a lawsuit filed by Lindsay Lohan over a Super Bowl ad is “without merit.” The spot refers to “that milkaholic Lindsay.” The starlet argues that she’s recognizable by her first name alone.
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Media Experts Agree: Not Much Hope For Legacy News Companies
Copyright and fair use doctrine were at the heart of a recent debate about how news organizations are going to make money in the digital age — if indeed they are.
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Mexico’s Carlos Slim Tops Forbes’s World’s Richest List; Unseats Gates, Buffett
Mar 10, 2010 Object
Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu tops Forbes’s World’s Billionaires 2010 list, unseating perennial inhabitants Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and becoming the first non-American to top the list since 1997.
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FarmVille, ChatRoulette, Video Games: Publishers Look Beyond the Book
Book publishers are keeping tabs on FarmVille, ChatRoulette, Facebook, and video-game companies, turning their sights onto the rapidly changing environment in digital distribution and social networking to keep their industry relevant — and alive.
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BusinessWeek Prepares for Round Two of Layoffs
The other shoe is about to drop at BusinessWeek. Shortly after taking over the magazine, news giant Bloomberg pruned its staff by a reported 30% and made it known that more downsizing would come sometime before May. Sources say that round will begin Thursday.
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Tehran Calling: U.S. Opens Web Trade to Repressed Societies
The Treasury Department is relaxing rules for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other companies, letting them provide social networking, email, and other web services to citizens in Iran, Sudan, and Cuba, in an effort to help open closed regimes.
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