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Runoff next month. Warren Buffetts Berkshire hathaway is buying duracell from Procter Gamble. The deal allows buffet to wind down his position in Procter Gamble which he has been cutting for years. The transaction also fits with the strategy of narrowing focus for Procter Gamble. Steve ballmer has just made a significant gift to harvard university, his alma mater. The size was not disclosed, but it will allow harvard to hire 12 new professors in Computer Science. It is the schools fastestgrowing...

Production up because of technological pledges that have taken place but weve also doubled our production of clean energy. Oil futures up after the selloff. Feinstein was the faa to tighten restrictions on drone pilots. In a letter, they say recent reports of close calls between drones and commercial planes are alarming. They are proposing criminal penalties. More reason for disney shareholders to smile. They are boosting the annual dividend by 34 . 1. 15 a share. A stock covering around an allt...

Technological changes that have taken place, but weve also doubled our production of clean energy. Oil futures up after the selloff. Diane feinstein wants the faa to tighten restrictions on drone pilots. In a letter, she said recent reports of close calls between drones and commercial planes are alarming. They are proposing criminal penalties. More reason for disney shareholders to smile. They are boosting the annual dividend by 34 , 1. 15 a share. Disney stock hovering around an alltime high po...

Castro also believes it is still too difficult for Many Americans to get a home loan. More money has been recovered for customers investing with bernie madoff. Two Cayman Islands funds have agreed to pay a combined 500 million. If the deal gets approved 59 of the money lost will have been recovered. Bitcoin will be back on the auction block. The u. S. Government will sell 15,000 bitcoins next month, worth 19 million at current prices. Snapchat and square are teaming up. According to a blog post ...

Not all the numbers were as rosy. I. B. M. Said sales did indeed grow 8 , but that growth rate was actually lower than last years. When you think of cybermonday, twitter is not the thing that usually comes to mind. But twitter has been working hard to change that perception, allowing users to directly buy items from their news feed. For more on twitters growing ecommerce role, i spoke with twitters director of retail and asked him how busy it has been. We have a lot of really great things happen...

It topped the 2 billion mark, growing 17 year over year. Not all the numbers were as rosey. I. B. M. Said sales did indeed grow 8 , but that growth rate was actually lower than last years. When you think of cyber monday, twitter is not the thing that usually comes to mind. But twitter has been working hard to change that perception, allowing users to directly buy items from their news feed. For more on twitters growing ecommerce role, i spoke with twitters director of retail and asked him how bu...

People over 50, the vaccine was 14 effective. The flu has mutated since the vaccine was created and manufactured. Radioshack preparing to file for bankruptcy. It could come as early as next month. Radioshack is also talking about sprint, the wireless carrier leasing some of radioshacks stores. Chinese uber competitor raised 600 million in funding, with existing shareholders ali baba and Tiger Global Management taking part. It is now valued at 2 billion. In china, upstart phone maker xiaomi is kn...

Speculation chinas government will add stemless after inflation reports. Of estimates below 2 . The price of oil has resumed its slump. It may go lower. West texas intermediate fell below 63 a barrel. Brent crude also down. In official in irans oil minister critics the price could fall as low as 40 a barrel. That is if there is a price war or of divisions emerge among the members of opec. The new Federal Reserve relation may be expensive for jpmorgan. They may need to come up with more than 20 b...

Security threats, will be deported. Response tot those that accuse him of overreaching. The actions taken by every single republican and democratic president for the past halfcentury. Of congressbers that . Authority to make our immigration system work better, or arch and the wisdom of me acting where congress has failed, i have one answer. Pass a bill. Republican say they will use that power they had to stop the president but they do not say what they will do. Here is john boehner. The presiden...

I. B. M. Said sales did indeed grow 8 , but that growth rate was actually lower than last years. When you think of cyber monday, twitter is not the thing that usually comes to mind. But twitter has been working hard to change that perception, allowing users to directly buy items from their news feed. For more on twitters growing ecommerce role, i spoke with chris riedy, twitters director of retail and asked him how busy it has been. We have a lot of really great things happening on the platform ...