Well, it looks like Sony has a little treat for PS3 users now that they're able to turn their consoles back on -- it's just announced that it has signed up all six major studios to deliver HD movies on the PlayStation Network (the first company to do so, as Sony is happy to point out). That includes 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures... MORE!
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Late last month, H&R Block (HRB) dropped a bomb on investors. The company slashed its outlook because of the slow start of the tax season. As a result, H&R Block's stock price fell 13%. It looks as though Turbo Tax is taking its toll on the, ubiquitous, tax-preparing giant.
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When Sarah Palin wrote a few notes on her hand during her speech to a tea party convention last month, she was widely ridiculed by bloggers, comedians and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. This weekend, she defended the notes at an Ohio pro-life fund-raiser, saying she was in good company.
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The tale of ski equipment company Loucon illustrates how to re-envision a bricks-and-mortar business, harness it to the Internet and turn it into a 21st-century success.
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Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.
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Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world's favorite search engine, and the company whose motto is "Don't be evil"...Meet Google the beast, the hungry beast.
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In a conversation with Ars Technica, Google's top privacy people defend the company's data retention policies and the tracking practices of (Google-owned) Doubleclick.
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In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications
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Sega isn’t the kind of company that strives for innovation in their games, there is only one hope left for Sonic. Sega needs to give Sonic to Nintendo.
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The European boss of Toyota has said that the company may halt the launch of new cars this year if it is not satisfied that the accelerator problem that forced a mass recall of vehicles has been solved.
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It should go without saying, but the last thing a grieving daughter should have to do is battle the phone company over disconnecting her deceased father's service.
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In September, 2006, then-CEO of Ford Motor Company William Clay Ford Jr. took a risk. In search of his own replacement, his offers were passed up by a pair of respected automotive leaders, so he did something few (if any) anticipate: he hired an aeronautical engineer to lead his own company. The rest is turning into history.
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Massive post-bankruptcy layoffs at Japan Airlines (JAL) have created some unexpected consequences for the already shamed company. JAL’s traditional (and somewhat conservative) stewardess outfits have historically been in high demand in Japan’s black market. An authentic JAL stewardess outfit rarely makes its way on the market, but when ....
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SharesPost, a marketplace for trading in private companies, said that values of shares trading in Facebook peg its worth at $11.5 billion. That's roughly the same value reported when Russian investors took a reported $300 million stake in the social networking company in December.
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