AS CANDIDATES start to jockey for position in a presidential contest due in 2016, corruption allegations are swirling. Of the five main potential runners, four have faced accusations of graft ...
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The Economist (Americas view)
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Read more.Death of a “Dirty War” criminal
JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA, an Argentine former military dictator who ordered the torture, murder and disappearance of thousands of civilians during the country’s seven-year military rule, died on May 17th ...
Read more.Named and shamed
IT HAS been a bad week for Mexico’s high and mighty, and a good week for Schadenfreude. This is thanks in large part to the growth of social media ...
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CNN Money
OptionsBest vacation bargains
Money magazine's Best Deals on Everything: Your guide to the latest vacation bargains in Mexico, Greece and Disney World. Plus, how to get cheap airfare.
Read more.Investors consider life after Fed stimulus
Investors have been rattled this week amid signs that some Fed officials are concerned the central bank is being too accommodative.
Read more.Another electric car company to file for bankruptcy
Electric car network runs out of gas.
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CNBC
OptionsLiving in His Car, Cramer Developed This Strategy
The investment strategy Jim Cramer learned while he was living in his car.
Read more.A First: Per-Student Spending Declines
Spending per public school student fell in 2011 for the first time since the Census Bureau began keeping records.
Read more.Yahoo Joins List of Hulu Bidders
Yahoo has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service.
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Forbes
OptionsThis Abercrombie & Fitch Blowup Could Be Different
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch just announced that same-store sales fell 15% in the first quarter and blamed inventory shortages. But, unless you've been living in a cave, you know ...
Read more.Microsoft And Game Publishers Will Reportedly Take A Cut Of Xbox One Used Game Sales
GameStop shares drop on news that Microsoft may take a cut of every used game sale.
Read more.BeauCoo: Building An App With Lasting Power
While mobile can be a tough business, the rewards are substantial when an app hits the sweet spot for users. Just take a look at Pandora. In the latest quarter ...
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Business Week
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Wall Street Journal
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Scores of small farmers and food activists have descended on Baraboo, Wis., for the trial of farmer Vernon Hershberger, who faces up to a year in prison after selling a ...
Read more.Durable Orders Bounce Back, but Shipments Decline
Orders for long-lasting goods rose in April, largely fueled by aircraft purchases, but other signals suggested the nation's manufacturing sector remains sluggish.
Read more.Obama Condemns Sexual Assaults
President Obama told 2013 graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy they must be determined to prevent sexual assaults and help restore the country's trust in the military.
Read more.Iranian Cyberattacks on U.S. Firms Rise
Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions, according to U.S. officials.
Read more.Obama Resets War on Terror
Obama outlined the next phase of counterterrorism efforts, detailing tighter standards for the use of unmanned drone strikes and making the case for closing Guantanamo Bay.
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Entrepreneur Update
OptionsYelp Continues to Defend Against Claims of Review Manipulation
Some business owners are expressing anger and confusion over the site's system for filtering reviews.
Read more.Google and Facebook Said to be in Battle to Acquire Social Mapping App Waze
Read about the growing interest in the Israel-based Waze, the problems with Twitter's two-step authentication process, Flickr's website malfunction and more social-media news.
Read more.9 Ways to Build Your Pinterest Audience
Being strategic about how you use Pinterest will help you grow your following considerably. Here are nine easy tactics to help you gain an audience.
Read more.How to Create a Sustainability Program for Your Restaurant
Three tips on how to source ingredients responsibly from the experts at the National Restaurant Association Show.
Read more.5 Ways to Lose Investors in Under 3 Minutes
The opening of your investor pitch is critical. Flounder and you might lose a venture capitalist's attention from the start. Here are five missteps VCs look out for when ...
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Financial Times
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Decision lifts cloud that had gathered over ex-finance minister’s position as leader of one of the world’s top international institutions
Read more.Republicans resist end to ‘war on terror’
Opposition from some leading Republicans in Congress is setting up what is likely to be one of the defining political disputes of his administration
Read more.Kuroda promises to stabilise bond market
BoJ governor vows to curb bond market volatility in an effort to reassure those who fear instability could push up interest rates and damage Japan’s Abe project
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MarketWatch
OptionsMarket Snapshot: U.S. stocks break four-week winning streak
U.S. stocks fell for the first week in five as the prospects that the Federal Reserve could start reducing its bond-buying stimulus rattled a market trading at historic highs.
Read more.Energy Stocks: Energy stocks fall, end week off 0.5%
Energy stocks fall Friday, though gains earlier in the week cushion the weekly impact of heavy losses in recent trading sessions.
Read more.Tech Stocks: Salesforce, Google losses hit tech stocks
Salesforce.com sparked a slump across the stocks of other corporate software vendors and led the broader tech sector into the red.
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Business Insider
OptionsYELP: Trust Us, We're Not Screwing With Reviews
Social review site Yelp has a big problem: Angry small-business owners. This week, Yelp published a fiery blog post defending itself, yet again, against claims that it extorts money from ...
Read more.INSTANT MBA: Most People Don't Know Themselves As Well As They Think
Today's advice comes from Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten Inc., via LinkedIn:
"How well do you know yourself? You may think that you of all people would be the ...
Read more.Inside The Stress Epidemic That Is Crushing College Students [INFOGRAPHIC]
As if the promise of a $27,000 student debt load wasn't enough to have college kids sweating in their cargo shorts, research shows that younger generations are becoming ...
Read more.The Best Restaurant In Los Angeles Is Providence
Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold recently released his list of the best restaurants in Los Angeles.
This is the first annual list the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic has ...
Read more.STOCKS CLOSE DOWN FOR 3RD STRAIGHT DAY: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ)
Stocks rallied well off of their lows. Still, they ended in the red for the third day in a row.
First the scoreboard:
Dow: 15,303, +8.6 pts, +0 ...
Read more.Apple Devices Dominate Mobile Video Traffic
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Read more.Yep –– I Am A Trust Fund Baby And I Did Nothing To Earn It
Just before my 16th birthday, my mom wrote a check from my account to buy me a BMW 328i, and that is where I learned to drive a stick shift ...
Read more.Mysterious 'Alien Hand Syndrome' Is Embarrassing And Terrifying
Although modern medicine has made tremendous advances in many areas, even mapping the human genome, there remain aspects of human health that continue to elude our full understanding.
Alien hand ...
Read more.Here's What We Can Tell About You Just Based On Your Credit Score
Credit scores, as with most attempts to make sense of our world, operate on the assumption that the near future will look a lot like the recent past, and that ...
Read more.Google Is Planning To Build Its Own Wireless Network (GOOG)
Google is developing plans to build its own wireless network in emerging markets, Amir Efrati at The Wall Street Journal reports.
Google has developed its own wireless technologies, which ...
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