On April 2, 2010

What if you were a billionaire for 5 hours?

Interesting story on Yahoo! Finance, found on the Wall Street Journal. Check it out:
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109237/if-you-were-billionaire-for-five-hours

The end of the article poses an intriguing question: "What if, for five hours, you truly did have $89 billion? What…

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bank of america account

I cant seem to synch my Bank of America credit card account to Outright. I enter the same information I always use to access it through the B of A site, but Outright keeps telling me that there is some…

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Turnaround Firms Gobbling Up Distressed Restaurant Chains Even Faster

When brand-name restaurant chains are losing money, private-equity firms begin to salivate. The down economy has laid a feast for these acquisition players, which have bid recently on eateries from upscale Benihana (BNHN) to pizza take-and-bake chain Papa Murphy's. If

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U.S. Auto Sales Rebound: Thank the Toyota Recall

Anxious to keep people coming through the turnstiles, Toyota offered incentives to try and offset the big Toyota recall scandal. Honda and other makes followed suit, and March sales rose.

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Friday Links

? Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is “here to report: Book tours are not dead.” Not here, precisely, but over at Powell’s blog.

? Eoin Purcell believes “Publishers should be platform agnostic,”…

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Verizon Can’t Give Away Palm Devices Fast Enough

Verizon Wireless is offering steep discounts on the troubled Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus handheld devices. On its site, it has slashed the prices of these devices from $250 to $50, and $150 to $30, respectively.

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Can I just somehow limit my expenses

I imported receipts and also imported my credit card info for 2009. Can I somehow make cut off dates like 12/31/2009 so the data does not include 2010 expense?

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Google’s Acquisition Could Turn YouTube into a Hulu Killer

Google will acquire video platform vendor Episodic as a way to better help YouTube compete with Hulu.

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Gymboree’s Crazy 8 Expansion Is a Remarkably Sane Business Plan

Gymboree might have run out of room to grow its namesake chain much more, but Crazy 8, its discount concept, has plenty of room to grow.

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Pfizer Cares About Safety, But Only “Informally,” Email Says

Becky McClain's $1.4 million legal victory against Pfizer (PFE) is a surprise because on its face the former research scientist's complaint against the company did not feature the kind smoking-gun allegations that often make whistleblower's cases against pharmaceutical companies.

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