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Japan's Pioneer expects sixth year in red
May 13, 2009 |
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Japan's Pioneer Corp. warned it would spend a sixth straight year in the red as it pulls the plug on its loss-making television business and slashes thousands of jobs.
Tropical forest seed banks: A blast from the past
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Seeds of some tree species in the Panamanian tropical forest can survive for more than 30 years before germinating. That is 10 times longer than most field botanists had believed.
Groundbreaking model of heart disease rewarded with NIH Pioneer Award
Sep 24, 2009 |
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A pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) likes to see—and reward with one of its most prestigious ...
New kids on the block: Latecomers must be unique to outperform pioneer brands
Oct 14, 2008 |
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What is it that allows some brands to succeed and some to fail? Why is it sometimes better to be first and other times more advantageous to reach the market later? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research takes a clos ...
New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...
MySpace syncs updates with Twitter
Sep 21, 2009 |
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MySpace on Monday began synchronizing user status updates with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.
Think electric car set to roll out of Norway: report
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Think, an electric vehicle manufacturer based in Norway, may move production to Finland as part of a restructuring plan, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang reported on Wednesday.
Best Buy embraces digital delivery of home video
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections.
Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service.
Study uses bone marrow stem cells to regenerate skin
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A new study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin. The findings mark an advancement in wound healing and may be used to pioneer a method of organ reconstruction. The ...
Historical increase in corn yield -- it's in the roots
Mar 16, 2009 |
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One of the most significant developments in agricultural growth in modern times has been the continuous and substantial increase in corn yield over the past 80 years in the U.S. Corn Belt.
Yahoo! abandoning GeoCities
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Yahoo! said Thursday it will close its GeoCities service that provides people a free online locale for home pages.
Flower shop launches first Facebook store
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In a first, but likely not last for Facebook, a retailer is setting up shop inside the popular social-networking site.
AOL buys two Web startups
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Internet pioneer AOL, which Time Warner plans to spin off into an independent company later this year, announced on Thursday that it had bought two small Web startups focused on local content.
Researchers learn that some 'good cholesterol' isn't good enough
Dec 01, 2008 |
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If you think your levels of "good cholesterol" are good enough, a new study published in the December 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that you may want to think again. In the report, researchers from the University of Chi ...
