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IAC shares surge despite $28M quarterly loss (Update)

Technology / Business

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The recession took a bite out of IAC/InterActiveCorp in the first quarter, as revenue fell 22 percent in the Internet company's media and advertising unit, which includes the Ask.com search engine.





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Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


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Ubiquitous in U.S., Google struggles for market share in China

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In China, Google means underdog. While the Mountain View company dominates the search market in the United States, it is not part of the pop lexicon on the other side of the Pacific. In its nine years in China, ...


Rhino poaching surges in Asia, Africa

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rhino poaching worldwide is on the rise, according to a new report by TRAFFIC and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).


Scientists trace shark fins to their geographic origin for first time using DNA tools

Scientists trace shark fins to their geographic origin for first time using DNA tools

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Millions of shark fins are sold at market each year to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, but it has been impossible to pinpoint which sharks from which regions are most threatened ...


Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet 'freedom' bill

Technology / Internet

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign ...


IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...


Smithsonian scientists find the frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists ...


Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative ...


The two species now endangered are the flapper skake and the blue skate

Mislabelling drives skate to brink of extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago, reveals research published today ...


Open shop for environmental data

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to access and reuse environmental data from diverse sources has been devised by European researchers. They foresee a future where environmental data and services are offered on the open market.



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