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Microsoft Xbox sales strong over holidays

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Microsoft Corp said on Monday sales of its revolutionary Kinect sensing device for the Xbox game console have hit more than 18 million just over a year since launch.
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World's Biggest Technology Show Searching for 'Wow' Factor

The world's biggest technology trade show will feature razor-thin laptops, powerful new smartphones, and fancy flat-screen TVs, but talk in the cavernous halls of the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show may center on whether the CES itself has a long-term future.
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Fame Vs. Celebrity: A New York Story

I have seen or run into literally hundreds of celebrities -- ranging from global icons to the Andy Warhol ‘fifteen-minute’ variety -- in Manhattan over the past two decades.
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Ted Forstmann, Private Equity Pioneer and Philanthropist, Dies at 71

Wall Street legend Ted Forstmann, who died of brain cancer on Nov. 20, helped launch the private equity industry. The colorful financier was as known for his Republican leanings, charity work, and relationships with Princess Diana, Elizabeth Hurley and Padma Lakshmi as for his late-in-life warnings about Wall Street excesses.
Protesters march with a large banner outside a Bank of America office at an Occupy LA protest in Los Angeles, California

Occupy Wall Street Number Crunch: Is It Really 1% vs. 99 %? [VIDEO]

A new video takes the OWS protest cry we are the 99 percent and examines the numbers behind the movement's message. Who are the 99 and 1 percent, respectively, in America? How does U.S. wealth divide itself, and how did it do so before the financial crisis? The shocking statistics paint a picture even more provocative than Occupy protesters assert, including info on the 0.01 percent vs. the 99.9 percent.
Dr. Nancy Brajtbord administers a shot of gardasil, a Human Papillomavirus vaccine, to a 14-year old patient in Dallas.

Fund Backs Cervical Cancer Vaccine in Poor Nations

The GAVI international immunizations group has agreed to fund the roll-out of vaccines against cervical cancer in developing countries, offering protection against a disease that kills one woman every two minutes.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, With Husband Abhishek Bachchan.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Baby Girl: Born 'Scorpio' Like Her Mother

One of Bollywood's most anticipated events of the year was announced with a tweet from veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan, who announced: I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl!! The event - actress and former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, gave birth to a baby girl, her first child with husband and fellow actor Abhishek Bachchan, on Wednesday morning (IST), at Mumbai's suburban Seven Hills Hospital.
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Microsoft shareholders grumble at brief annual meet

Microsoft Corp shareholders filed out of the software giant's annual meeting grumbling that they did not get to ask more questions in their once-a-year opportunity to quiz Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.
Apple iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S vs Samsung Focus S: Microsoft vs Apple

Steve Jobs would have been proud of the unavoidable iPhone 4S collision with the Samsung Focus S. He famously called former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates unimaginative in the Walter Isaacson biography, 'Steve Jobs.' Gates probably didn't have anything to do with the Focus S, the newest and arguably finest device to wear the Microsoft operating system, so maybe that's why this new Samsung device has its sights set on Apple?
International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Managing Director Christine Lagarde, is poised to secure more than $400 billion in additional funds to backstop the euro zone sovereign debt crisis

IMF's Lagarde Joins China-Style Twittersphere

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has joined a growing panoply of Western luminaries and celebrities such as Bill Gates and actress Emma Watson on China's most popular microblogging platform, Weibo -- and received a warm response.
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IMF's Lagarde joins China-style Twittersphere

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has joined a growing panoply of Western luminaries and celebrities such as Bill Gates and actress Emma Watson on China's most popular microblogging platform, Weibo -- and received a warm response.
Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg Visits Harvard

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, visited Harvard University today for the first time since he dropped out to move Facebook to California.

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