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3 Drawbacks Of The Starbucks College Achievement Plan
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 2:48pm | 773Read More...Following the announcement June 16 by Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz that the company would pay college tuition for thousands of workers, including those who work as few as 20 hours per week, much was written and said about the program, some of it positive, some negative. On the...
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Top Financial Tweets From January 21, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 11:39am | 394Read More...The wealth of information and opinions spread on Twitter has grown each and every year since its inception in 2006. Benzinga will try to collect some of the notable tweets from the business, media and financial markets as days go by. Some may be newsworthy, some may be humorous - all help...
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Starbucks Security Issue Endangers 10 Million App Users
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 10:16am | 519Read More...Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) app users could end up with more than a delicious, premium-priced beverage. The popular specialty coffee chain is in a bit of hot water after security researcher Daniel Wood decided to test the Starbucks app (available for Android and iOS) to see if it was secure....
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Top Financial Tweets From January 15, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 12:31pm | 376Read More...The wealth of information and opinions spread on Twitter has grown each and every year since its inception in 2006. Benzinga will try to collect some of the notable tweets from the business, media and financial markets as days go by. Some may be newsworthy, some may be humorous - all help...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Friday, August 16
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 10:48am | 1215Read More...There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful or just down right comical. 1. Paul R. La Monica CNNMoney's Paul R. La Monica (@LaMonicaBuzz) tweeted...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Wednesday, August 14
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 11:55am | 1165Read More...There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful or just down right comical. 1. Alberto Nardelli Electionista's Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) tweeted an awesome...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Tuesday, August 13
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 2:11pm | 1176Read More...There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical. 1. Danny Blanchflower Dartmouth economics professor and former Bank of England...
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CNBC Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for the Gold Standard
Friday, August 24, 2012 - 4:01pm | 535Read More...A new CNBC poll seems to suggest that while Washington bureaucrats might find a return to the gold standard anathema to their narrow interests, the citizens of the United States think it is a pretty good idea. Out of a little more than 19,000 votes that had been recorded at CNBC.com on Friday...
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Thiel Cashes Out the Majority of His Facebook Shares
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 3:27pm | 490Read More...Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Board Director and initial investor Peter Thiel sold 20.1 million shares on August 16 and 17, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. CNNMoney reports that Thiel had previously sold 16.8 million shares in Facebook's Initial Public Offering (IPO) for $...
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Siri Would Have Embarrassed Steve Jobs
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 10:37am | 556Read More...Economically, Siri has provided Apple with billions of dollars in profit. It has helped the company sell more iPhones than it could have ever imagined. But as the number of Siri users continues to rise (more than 70 million people now own an iPhone 4S), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has incurred a growing...
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This Apple Product Saved Greece $140 Billion
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 9:10am | 373Read More...Sony might think that the PlayStation 3 "only does everything," but it was an Apple product that saved Greece well over $100 billion. An iPad, to be exact. How did the world's leading tablet help the struggling nation shave $140 billion off its $270 billion debt? CNNMoney reports (via...
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Apple TV Development Denied by Foxconn
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 1:48pm | 458Read More...Just days after Foxconn's CEO reportedly revealed that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was preparing for the launch of its first television, the Chinese manufacturing corporation has released a statement denying the whole thing. "[Foxconn chief Terry Gou] neither [confirmed] nor [speculated] about Foxconn's...
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Twitterize Creator Visually Scores $2 Million in Seed Funding
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 9:51am | 302Read More...The site that aims to visualize everything (with infographics) has acquired a new round of funds. This beautiful Steve Jobs infographic is a great example of what the site can do, either in-house or by another party. When Visually launched earlier this year, users were given the chance to...
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America's Best Places to Live
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 9:46am | 359Read More...What are the best small towns in America? CNNMoney ranks the top 100. CNNMoney has just come out with its list of the best places to live in America, which feature “great job opportunities, top-notch schools, safe streets, economic strength, nice weather, plenty to do, and more.” With a...
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Greece Just Got Greece'd
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 2:52pm | 550Read More...Standard and Poor's downgraded Greece once again on Monday, from a rating of B to CCC, CNNMoney reported. Greece now sits two ratings above "default." Last week, fellow ratings agency Moody's also downgraded the country, putting its chances of default at 50-50. The credit default swap (CDO)...
