March 2012
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Blizzard (World of Warcraft) lays off 600...
Huffington Post:
IRVINE, Calif. — Blizzard Entertainment says it’s cutting about 600 jobs.
The Irvine, Calif., company, which makes the popular “World of Warcraft” games, says that only about 10 percent of the cuts will involve jobs related to game development.
The “World of Warcraft” development team will not be affected.
Blizzard, which is part of...
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Survey: 1/10 of students know someone prostituting...
Telegraph:
The Billie Piper drama Secret Diary of a Call Girl, in which the dangers are sidelined and she “oozes glamour and sophistication” may have added to the rise, a medical journal claims.
A tenth of trainee doctors now claim to know someone who is selling their body because of increased living costs and rising tuition fees.
This is two and a half times the number ten...
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Bristol Palin to get own reality TV show
Politico:
Her last one never aired, but – nonetheless – Bristol Palin has landed another reality show. The daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will star in “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” a docuseries picked up by Lifetime, according to a press release from the network:
With never-before-granted access to Bristol’s real-life experiences growing into womanhood, Bristol Palin: Life’s...
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Florida woman admits to burning down 3,500...
ABC News:
Twenty-six-year-old Sara Barnes was arrested in Seminole County, Fla., after she admitted to setting fire to one of the oldest trees in the world.
The 118-foot, 3,500-year-old bald cypress tree, located in Big Tree Park in Longwood, Fla., mysteriously burned to the ground on Jan. 16, 2012.
The Department of Forestry suspected foul play at first, but the fire was treated as an...
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James Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive of...
Time:
On Feb. 26, Rupert Murdoch celebrated the launch of the Sun on Sunday—the newspaper he hopes will fill the gap in the market created by the closure of the News of the World. But for a man who grew wealthy buying up small newspapers in Australia more than 60 years ago, restoring credibility at News International in the wake of the phone hacking scandal isn’t just about boosting the...
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Judge blocks day labor rules in AZ immigration law
AP:
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state’s 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that groups seeking to overturn the law will likely prevail in their claim that the day labor rules...
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The Monkees' Davy Jones dead at 66
Pitchfork:
TMZ reports that Davy Jones from the 1960s pop group the Monkees, died earlier today in Florida of a heart attack. He was 66.
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Apple will hold product event on March 7th;...
Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world’s most valuable company, will hold a product event on March 7 in San Francisco, where it’s said to be releasing the third generation of its best-selling iPad tablet computer.
“We have something you really have to see. And touch,” Apple said today in an invitation, which features a picture of an iPad screen. The new device will sport a high-definition...
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APPLE BECOMES MOST VALUABLE COMPANY; WORTH $500bn
Financial Times:
Apple has joined an elite group of companies to reach a $500bn equity valuation amid expectations it is to launch a new version of the iPad next week.
Shares in the iPhone maker rose by nearly 2 per cent to $535.41 on Tuesday, lifting its equity value to $504bn. Apple shares are already up 32 per cent this year, extending gains over the past 10 years to 4,500 per cent.
Apple...
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TWITTER SELLS MULTI-BILLION TWEET ARCHIVE
RT:
Twitter has sold billions of archived tweets believed to have vanished forever. A privacy row has erupted as hundreds of companies queue up to purchase users’ personal information from the new database.
Every time you use social networks you become mere product – it’s an idea we will all have to get used to. So, should we give up worldly goods and hide in a Tibetan monastery till the end...
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Mosques in America have doubled since 9/11
Washington Examiner:
Mosques in the United States have doubled in number since the September 11 attacks, with urban and suburban centers seeing an uptick in mosque construction over the last decade, according to a new report.
“This is a growing, healthy Muslim community that is well integrated into America,” Ihsan Bagby, who headed the research project — which was sponsored...
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Leaked emails suggest Pakistan knew of bin-Laden's...
Huffington Post:
Did Pakistani army officials know Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad?
Emails from the security think tank Stratfor, released by WikiLeaks on Monday, suggest that up to 12 Pakistani intelligence and army officials were aware of Bin Laden’s presence in the Pakistani city.
The emails released do not identify the agents, but show that were mid- to senior level...
