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Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcyFeb 28, 2014 12:01 am - TOKYO - The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars...
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Online retailers let you try before you buyFeb 23, 2014 5:37 am - NEW YORK - The fitting room is coming home. Online retailers that sell jeans, eyeglasses and shoes are shipping their products to customers for free to try on at home be...
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Johnson hits the track at Daytona with his eyes on the prizeFeb 23, 2014 4:45 am - Records, as they say, are made to be broken. And a major sports record could be tied this year, the one for Sprint Cup championships in a career: seven, currently held b...
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Not all escapist fare is for kidsFeb 14, 2014 4:30 am - Thanks to Harry Potter, "Lord of the Rings" and Hollywood's insistence that no big-budget movie be rated R, imaginative fantasy and sci-fi films have become synonymous w...
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Giving daily-deal sites a second chanceFeb 09, 2014 5:35 am - NEW YORK — I gave up on daily-deal sites about a year ago. The last straw was a $45 pizza-making class I bought, but didn’t show up for. Before that, there was a long li...
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The best Super Bowl ads weren’t on during the gameFeb 08, 2014 6:43 am - NEW YORK — Brands have figured out how to get Super Bowl buzz without paying Super Bowl bucks. Some of the companies that had the most success during the game were not o...
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How social media changed the worldFeb 08, 2014 6:33 am - By Vivek Wadhwa, Special to The Washington Post When Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com in February 2004, even he could not imagine the forces it w...
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Super Sunday: Football funday is finally hereJan 31, 2014 4:45 am - The biggest day on the NFL calendar is here, the virtual holiday known as Super Bowl Sunday. This year's championship game, airing at 5:30 p.m. on Fox, pits veteran QB P...
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Holocaust play ‘The Soap Myth’ goes digitalJan 27, 2014 5:54 am - NEW YORK — In the spring of 2012, as the off-Broadway run of the Holocaust play “The Soap Myth” was winding down, its director wasn’t ready to let go. Arnold Mittelman, ...
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Watch the nominees at homeJan 24, 2014 5:00 am - In just a few weeks, one of this year's nine best picture nominees will win the Academy Award - and many of the millions of people watching the telecast around the world...