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Shopkick Delivers $110M Revenue in 2011; App Offers Hope for U.S. Retail Sector

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Mobile retail app Shopkick on Tuesday, announced it's software drove over $100 million worth of in-store purchases last year. According to company chiefs, consumers armed with Shopkick enabled smartphones spent $110 million at participating retailers over the last 12 months, the location based app's first full year of operation.
Where are the Real Entrepreneurs

Where are the Real Entrepreneurs?

Everyone likes the word entrepreneur. Its precise definition is elusive, but even if we as Americans don't really know what entrepreneurship means, we know that we like it, and we want more of it. After all, the word evokes all the popular clichés that are so prominent in our culture, especially around election time: the American Spirit, the struggle to overcome, innovate, inspire positive social change, and so on. Indeed, entrepreneurship has become a catch-all in these times...
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Generics Take Toll on Pfizer, Lilly Profits

Competition from low-cost generic drugs squeezed quarterly profits at Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. but the drugmakers were able to somewhat weather those declines with help from other medicines.
Customers look at Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II LTE smartphones on display at a shop in Seoul

German Court Upholds Ban of Samsung's Older Tablet

Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market.
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Jon Voight Endorses Mitt Romney in Florida Primary, Claims Gingrich 'Falls Short'

Actor Jon Voight offered his support to Mitt Romney for the 2012 GOP presidential bid in front of a crowd of hundreds at a Pensacola, Fla. seafood restaurant Saturday. Rallying alongside Romney and Sen. John McCain, the academy award winning actor claimed Newt Gingrich falls short of Romney in many ways, in hopes that Romney will win the Fla. primary.
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UPS profit tops Street view, sees 2012 growth

United Parcel Service posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday and forecast 9 percent to 15 percent growth this year as solid U.S. demand and growing e-commerce activity offsets an uneven global economy.
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China rare earths safe from WTO ruling on export curbs

A World Trade Organisation ruling against China's restrictions on raw material exports could force changes to some of its rare earth policies but is unlikely to yield the boost in exports of the metals that consumers want to see.
Basal cell carcinoma is generally a slow-growing and painless form of skin cancer that starts in the top layer of the skin and develops on areas that are regularly exposed to sunlight or other ultraviolet radiation.

Roche Skin Cancer Drug Approved by FDA

U.S. health regulators on Monday approved Roche's pill to treat an advanced form of the most common form of skin cancer, known as basal cell carcinoma.
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UPS sees 2012 profit up 9 to 15 percent

United Parcel Service said on Tuesday it expects profit to rise 9 percent to 15 percent this year, as solid U.S. demand and growing e-commerce activity offsets an uneven global economy.
Though Spam is a brand-name pork product, the lower-case term is also used to describe any kind of processed, canned meat. Canned meat is available freely to many Native Americans on reservations as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food a

Spam Meat Tied to Diabetes Risk in Native Americans

Native Americans who often ate processed meat in a can, generically known as spam and a common food on reservations, one subsidized by the government -- had a two-fold increased risk of developing diabetes over those who ate little or none, according to a U.S. study.
Bank of America fee protesters

Bank Fees in 2012: Up, Up and Away!

Facing both a slew of regulatory developments and volatile capital markets, banks are seeing some parts of their traditional revenue model threatened. One solution: charge customers more fees, either by raising the price of existing fees, charge for services that used to be free, or offering new services at a cost.

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