Author: timbatchelder

  • Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study

    Joe Van Brussel, huffingtonpost.com Turns out nobody wants a side of politics with their pizza. Public opinion of Papa John’s dropped precipitously after CEO John Schnatter’s public comments about Obamacare, according to a new study from YouGov BrandIndex, which researches brand… http://flpbd.it/Ch49y Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study Related articles Suck it,…

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  • IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

    The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…

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  • Religion v science R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC, economist.com Earth, to Rubio WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, so it’s time for the poten­tial can­di­dates to start jock­ey­ing for posi­tion. Hence Marco Rubio’s fab­u­lous­ly elu­sive (now viral) answer to the rather… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: A Republican senator from Florida, has…

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  • Religion v science R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC, economist.com Earth, to Rubio WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, so it’s time for the poten­tial can­di­dates to start jock­ey­ing for posi­tion. Hence Marco Rubio’s fab­u­lous­ly elu­sive (now viral) answer to the rather… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: A Republican senator from Florida, has…

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  • Religion v science R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC, economist.com Earth, to Rubio WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, so it’s time for the poten­tial can­di­dates to start jock­ey­ing for posi­tion. Hence Marco Rubio’s fab­u­lous­ly elu­sive (now viral) answer to the rather… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: A Republican senator from Florida, has…

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  • Economist ranks best countries to be born in

    The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 War­ren Buf­fett, prob­a­bly the world’s most suc­cess­ful investor, has said that any­thing good that hap­pened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right coun­try, the Unit­ed… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…

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  • Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

    S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHN­SON reads Red­dit from time to time. Red­dit, as the web’s most promi­nent meme hatch­ery, is an incu­ba­tor of new trends in writ­ten lan­guage. The Inter­net has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme…

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  • Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

    The Obama start-ups economist.com Innovation and electioneering Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al… RT @TheEconomist: Techniques from the Barack Obama’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of…

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  • Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

    Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…

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  • Best B-Schools 2012businessweek.com How each school fared on each ele­ment of Bloomberg Busi­ness­week’s rank­ing method­ol­o­gy A new gen­er­a­tion of busi­ness stu­dents is opt­ing for spe­cial­ized mas­ter’s degrees straight out of col­lege, rather than the tra­di­tion­a… http://flpbd.it/X0RLD

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  • Best B-Schools 2012businessweek.com How each school fared on each ele­ment of Bloomberg Busi­ness­week’s rank­ing method­ol­o­gy A new gen­er­a­tion of busi­ness stu­dents is opt­ing for spe­cial­ized mas­ter’s degrees straight out of col­lege, rather than the tra­di­tion­a… http://flpbd.it/X0RLD

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  • Best B-Schools 2012businessweek.com How each school fared on each ele­ment of Bloomberg Busi­ness­week’s rank­ing method­ol­o­gy A new gen­er­a­tion of busi­ness stu­dents is opt­ing for spe­cial­ized mas­ter’s degrees straight out of col­lege, rather than the tra­di­tion­a… http://flpbd.it/X0RLD

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