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  • Angies List eyes year of transition as cashflow turns positive

    expects cashflow to turn positive this year as it spends less on acquiring new paid customers for its consumer review website, the company's co-founder said, fending off criticism of its business model by short-seller Citron Research.Chief Executive William Oesterle said Angie's List, which compiles reviews on everything from plumbers to pediatricians, said a recovery in U.S. consumer ...

  • Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-books prices.U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is set to oversee a trial on June 3, gave her view during a pretrial hearing on Thursday. She stressed that the view was not final and that she had only so ...

  • Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream

    (Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) Foursquare is now selling unfettered access to its real-time stream of check-ins through Gnip, a popular reseller of social-media data. The companies announced the partnership Thursday in separate blog posts that celebrate the possibilities for ...

  • Xbox Ones unexpected pitch Its the Dad Box

    (Credit: PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) For years we've heard about the ever-widening appeal of video games and game-playing devices. Women gamers, senior gamers, casual gamers, and even the kind of social/mobile gamers who would never refer to themselves with the dreaded G word. But, when it was time to reveal its first major gaming hardware of the post-iPhone era (the first-gen iPhone was ...

  • Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine

    , but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Ten years after he reinvented the American horror film with the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero returned to his story of the world being taken over by zombies in Dawn of the Dead, a film that is every bit as shocking, inventive, inte ... ...

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  • Google may face antitrust inquiry over display ads -- again

    Google has reportedly returned to the display ads hot seat with the Federal Trade Commission, after avoiding disciplinary action following an antitrust probe ...

  • Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss upbeat sales

    Internet radio company Pandora reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, as the number of subscribers who pay for ad-free listening rose above 2.5 million.The net loss in the three months ending April 30 grew to $28.6 million, or 16 cents per share, from a loss of $20.2 million, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.Excluding ...

  • Microsoft did not violate Google patent ITC says

    WASHINGTON | Thu May 23, 2013 5:25pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility when it made its popular Xbox, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday. The fight over the Xbox is related to the larger smartphone patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google's ...

  • Meet the 23-ton X-Wing the worlds largest Lego model

    There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut today in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon ...

  • Google faces new federal antitrust probe source

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on ...

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