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Unusual trading on Smithfield calls before deal raises eyebrows
2013-05-30 12:41:38| Food - Topix.net
Bullish bets in the U.S. options market on Smithfield Foods Inc, placed before a takeover bid by a Chinese company, has raised concerns that the news may have reached some investors ahead of time.
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Shopping Behavior for Millennials Raises Industry Eyebrows
2013-05-19 19:36:44| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Driving Sales News asks: Where have all the drivers gone? Something shifted with regards to our driving behaviors during the mid 2000's and we simply started driving less even though the population continued to grow. The Reuters staff suggests: This trend is reflected in vehicle ownership, which has decreased by 4 percent between the all-time high of 1.24 vehicles per driver in 2006 and now. The percentage of driving-age Americans with licenses also fell to a 30-year low of 86 percent in 2011 from an all-time high of 90 percent in 1992. Editorial comment: And so we ask, could Millennials have something to do with it? With the Millennial generation, those Internet-addled 80s and 90s babies, now making up 40 percent of the potential U.S. car-buying population, auto manufacturers and their dealerships had better well pay attention to who they are, what they want in a car and what it will take to draw them into the showroom. [Read more]The Article Shopping Behavior for Millennials Raises Industry Eyebrows appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Notion of gene patenting raises eyebrows at Supreme Court
2013-04-16 04:37:13| Biotech - Topix.net
Amid a tangle of competing metaphors, conservative and liberal justices alike seemed to recoil at patenting isolated genes taken from the human body.
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Ubuntu tablet pre-order raises eyebrows
2013-03-06 17:26:39| InfoWorld: Top News
The news yesterday that an Australian company called Intermatrix has begun offering pre-orders of the first dedicated Ubuntu tablet has already made waves in gadget circles -- but many raised questions about the device's legitimacy.
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Utility ring opens bottles, combs your eyebrows
2013-01-30 20:00:00| CNET News.com
The Swiss Army knife concept goes bizarre with a titanium utility ring full of folding tools. [Read more]
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