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  • Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion

    WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

  • Blackstone Notifies Cohens SAC It Intends to Pull Funds

    May 25 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc , the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.A pension consultant, in a May 21 letter to clients, said Blackstone has notified Cohen that it intends to "fully ...

  • Military should conduct drone strikes Powell

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. drone strikes should be conducted by the military, not the Central Intelligence Agency, and limited to targets that present a real immediate threat to the U.S., former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, according to a report ...

  • Why DOJ didnt need a super search warrant to snoop on Fox News e-mail

    Attorney General Eric Holder, shown testifying before Congress last week, personally approved the controversial search warrant for the contents of a Fox News correspondent's e-mail ...

  • 5 Ways to Ace Your Air Travel This Summer

    (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) People who travel regularly for business absolutely loathe getting on planes during the summer. That's when those "amateur travelers" -- road warrior slang for people who only fly once or twice a year -- take to the skies. Unused to security protocol, determined to carry on the biggest possible duffle, and forgetful about ...


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Limitless

Limitless

Although it has long since been discredited by neuroscience and functional imaging techniques, the old adage that we only use a small percentage of our brains (the number generally ranges from 10 to 20%) has had an impressive staying power in our cultural consciousness for close to a century ... ...

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  • Who Got Rich This Week A 3D Printer Maker A High Tech Bookseller And More

    A 3D printer. This one was made by Objet. Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. A flat week was turned by a steep sell off on Wednesday afternoon as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress on the current state of the American economy. When he hinted that the central bank could ...

  • Annual Healthcare Costs For Family of 4 Now At $22030

    It's that time of year for our annual check-up with the folks at Milliman. We'll cut to the chase - it's not good news. The full report is available ...

  • Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One

    Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect ...

  • Obama urges U.S. to honor fallen soldiers

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)--President Obama on Saturday urged Americans to commemorate the Memorial Day weekend by honoring U.S. soldiers who have died in the nation's ...

  • Kerry to appoint envoy to Sudan report

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday he plans to appoint an envoy to Sudan and South Sudan after a oil-revenue squabble between the states brought the countries to the brink of war, according to a ...

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