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9 People Who Prove You Don't Have To Sell Your Soul To Make Billions

2013-09-13 16:37:23| Beverages - Topix.net

You're excused if the word "billionaire" causes you to picture an old man slowly stroking a cat and sipping whiskey in the darkness of his garish living room.

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NSA Backdoors Could Cost US Companies Billions in Business Abroad

2013-09-12 20:17:38| TechNewsWorld

The National Security Agency's efforts to include "backdoors" in U.S. companies' security products, networks and devices -- thereby making it easier for the NSA to snoop around -- could hurt business abroad. Specifically, foreign countries could come to view U.S. firms' relationship with Washington much the same way that the U.S. views Chinese companies' relationship with Beijing.

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Tech's cash kings are sitting on billions

2013-09-03 14:21:51| InfoWorld: Top News

Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable securities held by the S&P 500, excluding companies in the financials sector. Collectively, these non-finance companies reported $1.29 trillion in cash and short-term investments at the end of the first quarter, a gain of 7.8 percent compared to year-earlier numbers.

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Throwing billions more at logging wrong

2013-08-29 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Missoulian: From one fifth-generation Montanan to another, Im calling U.S. Rep. Steve Daines recent column on forest issues misinformed parroting of Bush-era Healthy Forests Initiative propaganda, which was nothing but a smokescreen for more corporate logging. Sadly, Daines now follows Bushs path to less environmental analysis, less public review and more deforestation of our dwindling old growth forests. Ironically, Daines column was published at the same time as numerous articles about how wonderful...

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