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Comedy Central's Nathan Fielder Is Behind 'Dumb Starbucks'
Comedy Central's Nathan Fielder is the man behind the Starbucks parody shop "Dumb Starbucks,"Deadline is reporting.“I’m proud to announce we’ll be opening our second Starbucks in Brooklyn NY soon,”...
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Twitter Is Facing An Identity Crisis As It Tries To Appeal To The Masses
Social Insider is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.TWITTER'S...
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6 Heartbreaking Images From An Abandoned Building In Spain That Now Houses...
Spain grew 0.3% in Q4 2013, but unemployment ticked higher to 26.03%, from 25.98% the previous quarter.Soaring unemployment and a housing bust have caused a surge in evictions as borrowers are unable...
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Here's The App Marc Andreessen Was Raving About On Twitter Yesterday
A new business app from one of the founders of Flickr is getting a ton of attention today, and for good reason.It's called Slack, and yesterday it got a major shoutout from Marc Andreessen, the...
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Bob Costas' Eye Infection Is Getting Worse
It appears that Bob Costas' eye infection has migrated to his second eye.The NBC broadcasting legend has been fighting through the infection since the Olympics started on Thursday night. Originally it...
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The Future Of Mobile Is Figuring Out What You Want Before You Do [Slide Deck]
If there's one buzzword that we're going to be hear used a lot this year, it's "context."From Google Now (Google's digital assistant) and its preemptive restaurant recommendations to the startup Yahoo...
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'Dumb Starbucks' Shut Down By Health Department
The Starbucks parody store opened by the comic Nathan Fielder was hit with a notice of closure for operating without a valid public healt permit, NBC Southern California reports. Fielder, the host of...
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The Red-Hot Biotech Sector Has Experts Screaming Bubble (IBB, ICPT)
There's just been so much talk about bubbles lately. And Business Insider has been reporting on many of these bubbles. Apparently, there are bubbles in tech stocks, craft beers, Norwegian housing ......
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How Google Grades Employees, And How You Can Use The Same System At Your...
From the time Google was a tiny startup, it's been using an internal grading system for employees call Objectives and Key Results, or OKR. OKR is a simple system that helps a company organize and...
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BITCOIN: How It Works, And Why It Could One Day Threaten Legacy Payments...
Bitcoin is most often discussed as a volatile digital currency, beloved by some, derided by others. But where Bitcoin's real value lies is as a payments technology that has the potential to...
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Here's Why Tim Armstrong Knew About His Employees' 'Distressed Babies' (AOL)
Last week, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's chose to tell a company-wide conference call that two AOL employees had "distressed babies" requiring health care expenditures of around $1 million each — which was...
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Bill Gates Washes The Dishes Himself Every Night
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, likes to wash dishes so much that he does it every night, he revealed Monday during an "ask me anything" session on Reddit.Redditor briannnf asked him: "I'd just...
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'RealSelf' Is Like A Social Network For People Who Want Cosmetic Surgery
If you're looking to get cosmetic surgery, look no further than RealSelf.com, a website that resembles a social network, exclusively for those who want and who've had work done.Since its founding in...
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Microsoft Fan Says: 'Windows 8 Is A Disaster In Every Sense Of The Word'
One of Microsoft's strongest supporters took a good, hard look at the soon-to-be released next version of Windows 8, which could arrive in April, and threw his hands up in frustration.The new version...
View Article5 Other Brilliant Stunts By The Guy Behind 'Dumb Starbucks'
Americans were obsessed Monday with the sudden appearance of a store called "Dumb Starbucks" in Los Angeles this weekend. It turns out Nathan Fielder — the deadpan comic behind the wildly popular and...
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Here's The House GOP's New Debt Ceiling Plan
House Republicans late Monday night unveiled a new plan of action on raising the nation's debt ceiling, one that ties a hike in the debt limit to a restoration of full pension benefits for some...
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This 28-Year-Old High School Dropout Has Now Sold Two Startups For $190M
Last week, LinkedIn announced that it was acquiring a cool young startup called Bright.com for $120 million. As we previously reported, this sale was a two-in-a-row hit for one of its co-founders,...
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Wednesday Is Going To Be Big For The Bank Of England
Markets are gearing up for Wenesday's inflation report from the Bank of England. Mark Carney, BoE governor, is expected to present modifications to the forward guidance framework used to guide monetary...
View ArticleThe Facebook-Publisher Dynamic Is Becoming Clearer
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These Maps Show Which Areas Of The Country Have The Biggest Carbon Footprints
It's no secret that the U.S. is one of the biggest carbon emitters around. Households in the U.S. alone are responsible for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, even though they account for just over 4% of...
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