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By Cara Alwill Nick Jonas’ solo album is definitely not what you might expect to hear from a member of one of the most loved pop bands of all time. Instead, Who I Am is a much deeper, more emotional departure from the fluffy, light hearted tracks that the Jonas Brothers are so well [...]

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Reuters - Borders Group Inc shares spiked nearly 40 percent on Wednesday after its largest investor, William Ackman, said there was little likelihood the struggling bookseller would file for bankruptcy and it could even be part of an industry consolidation.

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AFP - Bangladesh's stock exchange regulator sought Tuesday to rein in the country's stock market, which has soared 20 percent in the past month.

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AFP - Strong US manufacturing figures boosted Asian stock markets Tuesday while Tokyo was pushed higher following an announcement from Toyota that the auto giant would start fixing recalled cars.

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I'm still scratching my head at Mark Cuban's comments about news aggregators being freeloading vampires that should be blocked by news sites. As Danny Sullivan points out, Cuban is an investor in Mahalo, which is an aggregator extraordinaire. And in 2008 at the TechCrunch50 conference, Cuban said he'd like to be an investor in news aggregator TechMeme. He says: "Gabe from TechMeme, I've been ru

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During today's AOL earnings call, which just finished, CEO Tim Armstrong dropped the strongest hint yet that Google is the front-runner in negotiations for who will power search across AOL properties. Google is AOL's current partner, as it has been for nearly a decade, but the partnership is up for renewal. Needless to say, snatching the search partnership away would be a coup for Microsoft's

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AOL announced its first quarterly earnings today as a newly public company. Fourth quarter revenues dropped 8% to $471.6 million, and turned a profit of $1.4 million (see the slides below). Notes from CEO Tim Armstrong's first conference call are below. He laid out AOL's strategy, warned that sales would probably be dampened this quarter as a result of reducing a third of its workforce and no

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IBM has acquired Chicago-based software firm Initiate Systems. Initiate helps healthcare providers and other government organizations manage and organize data across various sources. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It appears that the acquisition is aimed at boosting IBM's healthcare offerings. According to IBM, Initiate's software us currently in use at more than 2,400 healthcare sit