Premium tuna fetches $100,000 at auction

submitted by: kozlovalexey  4 hours and 47 minutes ago

TOKYO - Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction Monday, several times the average price and the highest in nearly a decade, market officials said.

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Risky Business Indeed

submitted by: scott  8 day ago

A worry shadows the forthcoming Tom Cruise thriller Valkyrie. The worry is that, upon seeing Cruise done up in an eye patch and Nazi jackboots—trick or treat!—audiences will laugh. This is not a high bar for the world's biggest movie star. Cruise is now 46 years old, roughly midcareer for an actor of his stature; and yet the brand has fallen so far that a throwaway summer goof, his cameo as Lev Grossman, the too-Jewish super producer of Tropic Thunder, was regarded as a "comeback." By way of contrast, when Jack Nicholson was 46, he appeared in Terms of Endearment. Nicholson's performance as retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove won him an Oscar, but more importantly, it permitted some humanity to rise up through accumulated strata of stock deviltry, and stand forth warmly. Cruise, meanwhile, gyrates in a fat suit.

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Business, Both Funny and Not

submitted by: xyzws  52 day ago

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Microsoft and Universities: Videogame Makers?

submitted by: techxyzws  90 day ago

At a presentation at New York University yesterday, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's (MSFT) head of research and strategy, paced back and forth in front of a PowerPoint presentation. It was a pretty flat display for the fast-moving, multidimensional product he was proposing.

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More companies should follow Google's lead

submitted by: coolgoose  95 day ago

The massive Internet search engine announced Sept. 24 it would award $10 million to five individuals who find a way to help the most people.

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Google's Latest Attempt to Monetize YouTube: Post-Roll Ads

submitted by: xyzws  96 day ago

As Google has acknowledged before, monetizing YouTube has been a major challenge for the Internet giant, even though it is one of the web's most visited sites. Now, Google is trying out post-roll ads on the popular online video service...

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Google launches Yahoo 'facts' site

submitted by: gdevlin  98 day ago

Google is launching a new website aimed at countering critics of its impending advertising deal with Yahoo.

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Googlers' free-food privileges slashed

submitted by: remashV  103 day ago

Food is part of the Google myth: All you can eat, three meals a day, with plenty of room for your friends and family. No more. ..

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Harvard MBAs the most toxic investment on Wall Street

submitted by: remashV  103 day ago

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B-Schools Wary on Lehman, Merrill Impact

submitted by: tammy  110 day ago

As the financial landscape shifts, B-schools are busy reaching out to nervous students whose job prospects are suddenly far from certain

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