Business Stories from April 25, 2015 (Change date)
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Lyft hires Facebook, Nike executives in push to challenge UberApr 25, 2015 5:41 pm - Lyft Inc. hired two vice presidents with experience at consumer giants Facebook Inc. and Nike Inc., doubling the ride-sharing startup's executive team in six months as i...
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How Amazon swooped in to own cloud servicesApr 25, 2015 3:33 pm - In 2004, Sun Microsystems revealed a radical plan to shake up the computing industry. It would build a series of large data centers and sell access to the computers insi...
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Amazon targets Priceline, Expedia with new hotel booking siteApr 26, 2015 8:42 am - In its push to expand beyond an online store for books and merchandise, Amazon.com Inc. is entering the travel-reservations business. The e-commerce retailer Tuesday int...
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Amazon's Cloud actually merits the 'disruptive' tagApr 26, 2015 8:10 am - These haven't been the best of times for Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. Yeah, it's more famous than ever, but it's become so widely used and misused...
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Analysis: Humans win with Google's 'Mobilegeddon' search shiftApr 27, 2015 7:23 am - At least that's what the headlines are saying. Google, for its part, prefers something less Michael-Bay-disaster-flick and is calling it "the Mobile Friendly update." Ba...
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Some Capital One cardholders now get 20 percent off their Uber ridesApr 25, 2015 5:47 pm - Want cheaper Uber rides? Capital One has an offer for you. The Virginia company announced that it will give its QuicksilverOne and Quicksilver cardholders 20 percent bac...
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Why Nike and Under Armour are spending wildly to watch your every stepApr 26, 2015 8:52 am - WASHINGTON - Just days after Under Armour's sponsored star golfer Jordan Spieth won the Masters, the sportswear giant was hefting its weight into a very different sports...
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How to see everything you've ever Googled (if you're so brave)Apr 26, 2015 8:38 am - You probably don't remember what you Googled 10 minutes ago, let alone the myriad inane and fleeting things you've searched since the engine's beginnings. But unless you...
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Warner Bros.' DC Comics creating world of female superheroesApr 25, 2015 5:41 pm - Warner Bros.' DC Comics formed a partnership with Mattel Inc. to create TV specials, Web videos, books and action figures based on female characters like Wonder Woman. T...
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13 overboard tweets from teens picking a collegeApr 26, 2015 8:52 am - Applying to college is stressful. But after months spent filling out forms, deciphering such acronyms as FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and EFC (expect...