American International Group Inc. says it will sell as much as 90% of its International Lease Finance Corp. to an investor group...
Synacor partners with Zynga to bring social games to pay TV
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Synacor Inc, partly owned by Intel Corp, said it partnered with Zynga Inc to allow pay TV and broadband providers offer social games to their customers.Zynga shares rose about 3 percent to $ 2.30 in premarket trading, while Synacor shares were up about 5 percent at $ 6.60.Synacor said certain pay-TV subscribers will get in-game currency each month as part of their subscription that can...
Rolling Stones hit NY for 50th anniversary gig
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — It sure didn't feel like a farewell.The Rolling Stones — average age 68, if you're counting — were in rollicking form as they rocked the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for 2½ hours Saturday night, their first U.S. show on a mini-tour marking a mind-boggling 50 years as a rock band.And though every time the Stones tour, the inevitable questions arise as to whether it's "The Last Time,"...
Doping at U.S. Tracks Affects Europe’s Taste for Horse Meat
Label: HealthPARIS — For decades, American horses, many of them retired or damaged racehorses, have been shipped to Canada and Mexico, where it is legal to slaughter horses, and then processed and sold for consumption in Europe and beyond. Christinne Muschi for The New York TimesA slaughterhouse in Saint-André-Avellin, Quebec, where meat is processed for sale in Europe. ...
More young American adults are leaving the nest
Label: Business WASHINGTON — After riding out the tough economy in their parents' basements, more young American adults are starting to break...
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Egypt protesters demand that Mohamed Morsi step down
Label: World CAIRO — Tens of thousands of Egyptians broke through barbed wire and marched to the presidential palace Friday demanding that...
Viral rapper PSY apologizes for anti-US protests
Label: LifestyleSouth Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY is apologizing to Americans for participating in anti-U.S. protests several years ago.Park Jae-sang, who performs as PSY, issued a statement Friday after reports surfaced that he had participated in concerts protesting the U.S. military presence in South Korea during the early stages of the Iraq war.At a 2004 concert, the "Gangnam Style" rapper performs...
Justices to Take Up Generic Drug Case
Label: HealthWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would decide whether a pharmaceutical company should be allowed to pay a competitor millions of dollars to keep a generic copy of a best-selling drug off the market. Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesRalph Neas, head of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, said the case would alter the marketing of new generics. ...
Election is over, but 'super PACs' remain a threat
Label: Business Just as the devil's finest trick is persuading you that he doesn't exist (according to the poet Baudelaire), the best trick of big-money political donors may be persuading Americans that Citizens United doesn't matter.Citizens United, of course, is the infamous 2010 ruling by the Supreme Court that overturned limits on political spending via ostensibly...
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