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Google to make home entertainment system: report

Google will mirror Apple's winning hardware-software formula with an Android-powered entertainment system that wirelessly streams content through homes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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LinkedIn's 4Q revenue doubles, stock soars 8 pct

(AP) -- LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street.

Technology / Business

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Thomson Reuters posts loss on $3 bn writedown

Thomson Reuters posted a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday as the financial news and information provider took a $3 billion writedown on its financial services business.

Technology / Business

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China's Alibaba raising $3bn for Yahoo! stake: report

Chinese online commerce giant Alibaba plans to borrow $3 billion to buy back the stake Yahoo! owns in the company, a report said Thursday, as the struggling US Internet firm overhauls its Asia holdings.

Technology / Business

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News Corp. quarterly net profit up 65%

News Corp. said Wednesday that its net profit rose 65 percent in the second quarter of its fiscal year to $1.06 billion.

Technology / Business

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Time Warner 4Q earnings edge up, beats Street

(AP) -- Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative ...

Technology / Business

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After IPO, Facebook will face new profit pressures

(AP) -- For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the site generated per user last year.

Technology / Business

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NY Times net profit declines in fourth quarter

The New York Times Co. said Thursday that a print advertising revenue slide and weaker results at advice website About.com dragged down net profit in the fourth quarter.

Technology / Business

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Facebook stocks up for Google fight

As Facebook and Google jockey for dominance of the Web, the social networking titan's $5 billion stock offering will give it a hefty warchest for the ongoing fight, analysts said.

Technology / Business

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Scientist warns of new MRSA threat

(Medical Xpress) -- An MRSA expert from the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry has warned that a new, more toxic strain of the disease poses a serious threat to people in Britain as it ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

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In times of scandal, corporations are likely to use others' misconduct to justify their behavior

Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

Technology / Business

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Gannett shares lower as quarterly profit slides

Gannett shares were down sharply on Monday after the publisher of USA Today and other newspapers reported a steep fall in fourth-quarter net profit.

Technology / Business

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MS drug prevented fatal heart condition in lab study

A drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may also be effective at preventing and reversing the leading cause of heart attack, a new study has found.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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