Commentary: Bought the wrong trousers? More retailers don't want you to return them Online retailers are keeping quiet about “returnless refunds” but they are becoming more common, says Joe Miller for the Financial Times. 04/23/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Stephen Colbert Explains Why He Never Bought Into Late Night Wars, Still Can't Help But Take Fun Shot At John Oliver Stephen Colbert freely admitted he'd rather hang out and drink in a non-descript watering hole with his biggest competitor, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, rather than constantly enter into the ... 04/23/2024 - 10:07 am | View Link
We Gave a Home Stager $200 — Here’s What She Bought at Pottery Barn More than 48,000 five-star fans say it clears cable clutter and makes plugs easier to access in tight spaces. The wait for Tesla results is on as investors look to Big Tech earnings to buoy stocks. 04/23/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
Equinox Gold Consolidates Ownership of the Greenstone Gold Mine Arranges Term Loan and Bought Deal Equity Financing All dollar amounts shown in United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ... 04/23/2024 - 9:53 am | View Link
Murdered Kansas moms suspect bought Tasers, burners before women went missing, searched 'pain level': docs Grandmother Tifany Adams searched "taser pain level" and purchased five tasers in the days before Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley's disappearance, police said. 04/23/2024 - 9:17 am | View Link
bought buy /baɪ/ vb (buys, buying, bought ) (mainly tr) to acquire by paying or promising to pay a sum of money or the equivalent; purchase. to be capable of purchasing: money can't buy love. to acquire by any exchange or sacrifice: to buy time by equivocation. ( intransitive) to act as a buyer. 04/21/2024 - 7:56 am | View Link
bought verb bought. past tense, past participle of buy. Definition of bought verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. 04/20/2024 - 11:14 pm | View Link
BOUGHT Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com Bought definition: simple past tense and past participle of buy. . See examples of BOUGHT used in a sentence. 04/20/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Link
Brought vs. Bought—Learn the Difference Quickly | Grammarly The difference between brought and bought. Brought is the past tense and past participle of the verb to bring, which means “to carry someone or something to a place or person.” Bought is the past tense and past participle of the verb to buy, which means “to obtain something by paying money for it.” Both brought and bought rhyme with cot ... 04/20/2024 - 10:17 pm | View Link
Bought Define bought. bought synonyms, bought pronunciation, bought translation, English dictionary definition of bought. v. Past tense and past participle of buy. See Note at boughten. 04/19/2024 - 3:01 pm | View Link
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TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to company insiders, even as momentum to ban the short-video app grew in Washington.
The US government passed legislation this week aimed at forcing TikTok to divest from its parent or face a countrywide ban, but prising the viral video app from its $268 billion parent company would present a formidable challenge.
More than two dozen current and former employees told the Financial Times that TikTok has only become more deeply interwoven with ByteDance as tensions over the app’s ownership escalated.
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As a SpaceX engineer working on the Starship program about five years ago, Jaret Matthews could see the future of spaceflight quite clearly and began to imagine the possibilities.
For decades everything that went to space had to be carefully measured, optimized for mass, and serve an extremely specialized purpose.
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series of chips promises to be the company’s first that can go toe-to-toe with Apple Silicon, and the PC ecosystem is reacting accordingly. Microsoft reportedly plans for the Arm version of its next Surface tablet to be the flagship, and major apps like Chrome and Dropbox have recently released Arm-native Windows versions for the first time.
Ahead of the chips' launch late this year, Qualcomm announced a new lower-end model destined for cheaper devices.
Colorado lawmakers have passed new legislation in a years-long effort to curb foreclosures by homeowners associations and metropolitan districts that are based on unpaid fines and fees.
The reform bills — including one for metro districts that’s already been signed into law — have aimed to create new regulations for HOAs and metro districts by restricting foreclosure filings of the kind that hit thousands of homeowners in recent years.
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“Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on the couch with her MacBook Air, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch.
And it’s true: The smartphone has all but eliminated entire classes of gadgets, from point-and-shoot cameras to MP3 players, GPS maps, and even flashlights.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U. S. received President Joe Biden’s official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law could be in for an uphill battle in court.
Critics of the sell-or-be-banned ultimatum argue it violates TikTok users’ First Amendment rights.