News tagged with real
The real thing? People are often unsure about telling authentic luxury goods from fakes
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
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Luxury goods are supposed to be expensive because of their quality: A sip of fine wine or the comforting feel of designer clothing should justify the price.
Web sites cater to for-sale-by-owner home sellers
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task.
Study looks at effect of high foreclosure rates on local tax bases
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Foreclosed homes and unsustainable growth can wreck the tax base of local governments. That’s the warning being issued by Auburn University’s Center for Governmental Services following its study of newly ...
LendingTree: Google to compete on loan referrals
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- LendingTree, which allows prospective borrowers to get quick offers from multiple lenders, claims Google is about to get into the same business.
New study analyzing return of businesses to New Orleans after Katrina
Aug 26, 2009 |
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LSU Professor and Chair of Environmental Sciences Nina Lam and Professor and Louisiana Real Estate Commission Chair Kelley Pace, along with colleagues from LSU, Tulane University and Texas State University, will publish the ...
SmartZip pinpoints hot homes in US foreclosure market
Aug 19, 2009 |
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SmartZip has built a free online tool for prospective home buyers and real estate investors eager to mine gems from the rubble of the US foreclosure avalanche.
Homebuyers gain an edge with Internet searches
Aug 08, 2009 |
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In the colorful, centuries-long history of house hunting, when have so many buyers come to the table knowing so much about prices, neighborhoods and school test scores?
NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief.
Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...
Second Life data offers window into how trends spread
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do ...
Study separates russian flat tax myth and fact
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Proponents of a flat rate income tax often point to Russia's 2001 switch to a 13 percent flat tax as nothing short of an economic miracle.
Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fake
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.
For sale by tweet: Social networking to sell homes
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get a stream of random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network - but pitches on homes for sale?
Web 2.0 for the real world
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers working on some of the most fundamental issues facing the future internet paradigm have developed - in their spare time, no less - a mobile platform that brings some of the most powerful ...
New research shows that your looks, creditworthiness may go hand in hand
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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New research suggests that a person's appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University's ...
