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Parakweet gets $2 million for recommendation engine BookVibe
San Francisco startup Parakweet has gotten $2 million from angel investors to help make BookVibe a going concession. BookVibe is a book recommendation engine that tells users what book they might like to read next. Not unlike Booklikes, BookVibe seems...
Tags: Google+, Steve Jobs, Social Media
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Netflix boosts original programming with DreamWorks deal
Reuters* Deal involves 300 hours of new programming * Deal is Netflix's largest for original programming June 17 (Reuters) - Video streaming service Netflix Inc is beefing up its original programming menu through a multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation SKG...Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Television, Viacom Inc., Marketing, Kung Fu Panda (movie)
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Jay-Z announces new album 'Magna Carta Holy Grail'
Leave it to Jay-Z to sell a million copies of a new album even before he announces its existence to the world. The rapper and mogul debuted the news of a new LP, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," in a Samsung-partnered commercial during Game 5 of the NBA...Tags: Kanye West, The Wall Street Journal, Apple iTunes Radio, Jay-Z
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Ex-Microsoft exec living the boomer fantasy: Meaningful work
Patty Stonesifer sits cross-legged on the floor of a preschool classroom, her hands dripping with purple watercolor paint as she makes small block prints with the help of a 4-year-old who expounds on the proper technique to dip and print. In a flash of...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Social Issues, Christianity, Separation of Church and State
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Netflix boosts original programing with DreamWorks deal
Reuters(Reuters) - Video streaming service Netflix Inc is beefing up its original programing menu through a multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc, the maker of movies such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks said the deal, which...Tags: Television, Viacom Inc., Arrested Development (tv program) , Netflix Inc., Hulu
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NSA surveillance: What's one more Big Brother?
In principle, the National Security Agency's vast data collection operation is troubling, but in the age of Google and Facebook, it feels like having just one more Big Brother in a growing family of Big Brothers. In response to the revelation that the...
Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, American Civil Liberties Union, David Horsey
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Doreen's Deals: The first rule of Bargainomics
Rule No. 1 in Bargainomics is buy early. I shopped for Father's Day gifts for my husband, Dan, weeks ago so I could get the best price and selection. If you broke the golden rule and left gift shopping until today, you'll most likely spend more and...
Tags: Palm Beach County, The Home Depot, Walmart, Target, Media Industry
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Land to build in Palm Beach, but Broward developers get creative
Palm Beach County's availability of raw land may be its advantage in competing for some key future economic development projects. When competing for relocating companies, "having property available to show clients in shovel-ready state is critical in...Tags: Palm Beach County, Economic Policy, Property, Broward County, Coconut Creek
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Amazon jobs in South Florida? Online retailer proposes 3,000 jobs in state
After a deal with Amazon to bring jobs to Florida fell through a month ago, Gov. Rick Scott announced late Thursday that Amazon has proposed creating more than 3,000 full-time jobs in the state, making a $300 million investment by the end of 2016....Tags: Palm Beach County, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Rick Scott
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Biblioracle: Fan fiction comes to Kindle
Charlaine Harris, creator of the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels, has decided to end the run with the recently released 13th installment, "Dead Ever After." According to The Wall Street Journal, some fans are not happy, "taunting Ms. Harris in emails...
Tags: Authors, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Arts and Culture, Literature, The Wall Street Journal
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Amazon to bring 3,000 jobs to Florida in deal with state
TALLAHASSEE — Amazon will bring 3,000 jobs to the state in a deal that also means Floridians will have to start paying taxes on purchases from the online retailer. Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Thursday that Florida had landed the deal with...
Tags: Interstate 4, E-Commerce Industry, Executive Branch, Investments, Don Gaetz
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FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersBy Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Business, Bain Capital, LLC, Startups
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