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- Take a Deep Breath if You Want to Try Competitive Vaping
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 07:20 PMCompetitors are turning electronic cigarettes into sporting devices, challenging each other to see who can blow the biggest vapor cloud.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 08:19 PMTech Review: Apple Photos, Adobe Lightroom, Shoebox, Lyve and Mylio put your entire picture library in your pocket, Geoffrey A. Fowler says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clean Up Your Messy Phone Contacts Without Going Mad
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 08:44 PMStreamline your address books with software tools and Joanna Stern’s contact cleanup plan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google Gives Boost to Mobile-Friendly Sites
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:50 PMGoogle began shuffling its rankings for mobile websites Tuesday, favoring sites that look good on smartphone screens and penalizing sites that don’t.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Credit Suisse Profit Rises
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 06:31 PMCredit Suisse posted an improved profit due, in part, to a pickup at its investment bank.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Asian Debt Piles Up, and Up
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:20 PMAsian countries borrowed heavily to maintain growth during the financial crisis, but couldn’t break the habit even as the global economy healed. Now they are feeling the hangover.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Trouble With Grading Employees
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:23 AMEmployee-performance ratings such as ‘meets expectations’ sap morale, but many companies, including Intel, aren’t sure they can do without them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wipro's Profit Fell 9% Last Quarter
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:02 AMWipro Ltd reported a 9% decline in its fiscal-fourth quarter profit hurt by a stronger dollar and weakness in energy business.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Teva Offers to Buy Mylan for $40 Billion
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:39 AMTeva Pharmaceutical has proposed to acquire drug maker Mylan for about $40 billion in cash and stock, a sign of the jockeying for dominance among generic drug makers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robots Serve Up Cocktails
Monday - 04/20/2015 - 08:35 PMBartender ‘bots are a popular niche at RoboGames, but can they tell if you’ve drunk too much?
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- Rio Keeps Pumping Iron
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 02:03 AMRio Tinto’s first-quarter iron ore shipments fell sharply, but the miner still expects record sales in 2015.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Do I Throw Out So Much Food?
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 07:50 PMRefrigerators want to come to the rescue with new technology to keep produce fresher longer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Saudi-Led Airstrikes Ending in Yemen
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:41 PMA Saudi-led coalition declared the end of its military operation against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:35 PMGoogle, Facebook and others are scrambling to reach the roughly two-thirds of the global population still without Web access. But the Internet’s expansion among new users is actually slowing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oil's Slide Helps Japan Notch First Trade Surplus Since 2012
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:35 PMJapan reported its first monthly trade surplus in nearly three years, helped by falling oil prices, a weaker yen and stronger U.S. demand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU Tackles Thailand Over Illegal Fishing
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 12:24 PMThe European Union said it would ban seafood from Thailand unless it clamps down on illegal fishing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At Least Six Dead In Mogadishu Car Bombing
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:12 AMAttack on restaurant bears the hallmarks of the al-Shabaab militant group, which has targeted the city’s dining spots and hotels in the past.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CEOs Awarded More Cash Pay
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:25 AMCEOs’ cash pay rose at its fastest rate in at least four years in 2014, swelling to 37.3% of total compensation. Equity grants, meanwhile, are becoming less attractive as the stock market scrapes against record highs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - India Official Raised Oil Field Issue With Iran
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 08:28 AMIndia has raised the issue of getting back an oil field from Iran, where domestic companies have invested but hadn’t begun producing natural gas because of sanctions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Toshiba Looks to Get Around Hydrogen's Dirty CO2 Secret
Monday - 04/20/2015 - 08:41 PMToshiba plans to roll out a transportable hydrogen power generator later this year that doesn’t produce carbon dioxide in the process.
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- Five of the Best Unusual Wines
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:34 AMThe perfect—and most unusual—wines for springtime.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Did These Oil Workers Die?
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 08:59 PMThe deaths of oil-field workers over the past five years had haunting similarities. Natural causes were originally blamed, but now industry-safety executives are focusing on the possible role of hydrocarbon chemicals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Migrants' Ordeal Turned Into Tragedy
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:11 PMTheir overloaded and listing boat collided with a rescue vessel; its captain and a crewman have been detained.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Canon Ready to Snap Up Deal
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:33 AMCanon aims to spend another $3 billion to buy a company in a growth sector.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GM Sales Get Boost From China
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 02:02 PMGM’s global sales grew 1.9% in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2014, boosted by gains by its U.S. pickup truck and sport-utility vehicles combined with a 9.4% overall gain in China that offset deep declines in Europe and South America.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democratic Fissures Appear in Pacific Trade Pact
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 09:09 PMA bloc of congressional Democrats is bucking White House pressure to exclude concerns over currency manipulation from a bill to expedite a 12-nation Pacific trade pact.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Retail Traders Wield Social Media
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 10:56 AMDispensing stock tips on Twitter, some individual investors are building trading careers using social media as their primary tool for research and communication.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt's Morsi Gets 20 Years in Jail
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 08:06 AMAn Egyptian criminal court sentenced the nation’s ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges of encouraging violence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - J.P. Morgan Reassigns Banking Roles Across Asia
Tuesday - 04/21/2015 - 07:36 AMJ.P. Morgan reassigned roles among its senior bankers across Asia, giving broader roles to a handful of veteran bankers from within its own ranks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Love at First Sight? You Gotta Believe
Monday - 04/20/2015 - 07:38 PMWe are genetically wired for the possibility of falling in love immediately, but it’s largely a matter of timing and self-confidence.
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