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List of largest corporate profits and losses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of largest corporate profits and losses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : nces Largest corporate annual earnings of all time[edit] This list has all global annual earnings of all time, limited to earnings of more than $20 Billion in "real" (i.e. CPI adjusted) value (December 2013). # Company Industry Country Year Report Date Earnings (Billion) USD Inflation to December 2012[1] USD "Real" Earnings (Billion) 0 Fannie Mae Government-sponsored enterprise Public company �United States 2013 31 December 2013 $84[2] 1 ExxonMobil Oil and gas �United States 2008 31 December 2008 $45.22[3] 9.54% $50.24 2 ExxonMobil Oil and gas �United States 2006 31 December 2006 $39.5[3] 14.16% $45.68 3 ExxonMobil Oil and gas �United States 2007 31 December 2007 $40.61[3] 9.64% $45.13 4 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Banking �China 2013 31 December 2013 RMB 262.7 - $43.01 5 ExxonMobil Oil and gas �United States 2005 31 December 2005 $36.13[4] 17.10% $42.85 6 Ex
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What a $7.54 Swiss Big Mac tells us about global currencies | Business | The Guardian

What a $7.54 Swiss Big Mac tells us about global currencies | Business | The Guardian : The latest Big Mac Index shows the euro under pressure, the Swiss franc soaring and travelling Americans generally getting more burger for their buck. With wild swings on currency markets as central banks keep life interesting, the index invented by the Economist provides a timely guide to market moves.
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Mayer: Google's '20% Time' Does Not Exist - Business Insider

Mayer: Google's '20% Time' Does Not Exist - Business Insider : Mayer was announcing something called the CEO Challenge — an initiative where teams that came up with cool new product ideas would get spot bonuses of $250,000.�Mayer warned Yahoo employees not to work on CEO Challenge products instead of doing their regular work. "It’s funny," she said. "People have been asking me since I got here, 'When is Yahoo going to have 20% time?'" "I’ve got to tell you the dirty little secret of Google’s 20% time. It’s really 120% time." She said that 20% time projects aren't projects you can do instead of doing your regular job for a whole day every week.�It's "stuff that you’ve got to do beyond your regular job."
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Mayer: Google's '20% Time' Does Not Exist - Business Insider

Mayer: Google's '20% Time' Does Not Exist - Business Insider : "It’s funny," she said. "People have been asking me since I got here, 'When is Yahoo going to have 20% time?'" "I’ve got to tell you the dirty little secret of Google’s 20% time. It’s really 120% time." She said that 20% time projects aren't projects you can do instead of doing your regular job for a whole day every week.�It's "stuff that you’ve got to do beyond your regular job."
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Is this the first leaked Instagram from the Obama family? | The Verge

Is this the first leaked Instagram from the Obama family? | The Verge : An alleged photo of Malia Obama was published on Instagram,�according to multiple news sources. Who published the image, and when and where they did it remains unclear. The young woman in the photograph wears a t-shirt repping Pro Era, a Brooklyn-based rap collective featuring Joey Bada$$, Kirk Knight, CJ Fly and many others, and looks strikingly like the First Daughter. Besides being fantastic promotion for Pro Era, the photo may be the first leaked Instagram image from the Obama family, whose social media presence is otherwise meticulously maintained and sterilized by social strategy professionals.
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HuffPost plans to drop AP stories, relaunch site in 2015 | Capital New York

HuffPost plans to drop AP stories, relaunch site in 2015 | Capital New York : In 2014 we continued to expand internationally, welcoming Brazil, Korea, Algeria, Morocco, Greece and India to the global HuffPost family, bringing us to 13 editions worldwide. (And yes, everyone has received pajamas.) Fifty percent of our audience now comes from outside the US -- a figure that was unimaginable when we began our international expansion three years ago -- and we’ve taken global editorial collaborations to a new level. During the World Cup, the dashboard built by our US data team brought news, photos and viral content curated by our Brazil editors to readers around the world. Translated stories shared among all HuffPost editions ranged from an explainer of the Tunisian elections to a profile of a community group in Greece that provides food and fellowship to the unemployed.
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Blog Content Aggregation, RSS Feeds and Copyright Law

Blog Content Aggregation, RSS Feeds and Copyright Law : This led to an interesting suggestion from Jeffrey Rohrs. It would be a pain for very active bloggers to constantly register their copyrights in their blog, so it would be advantageous to them to make it easier to register. Fortunately, there’s a technological solution–bloggers already put out an RSS feed with all of the blog’s content. Maybe the Copyright Office could allow submissions of blog content for registration by reading an RSS feed.
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What’s the law around aggregating news online? A Harvard Law report on the risks and the best practices � Nieman Journalism Lab

What’s the law around aggregating news online? A Harvard Law report on the risks and the best practices � Nieman Journalism Lab : Applied to Feed Aggregators, the first fair use factor cuts slightly in favor of a finding of fair use because of the transformative nature of the categorization and indexing functions performed by the Feed Aggregators. The Ninth Circuit has repeatedly found that certain reproductions of copyrighted works by a search engine are a “transformative” use. In Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., the Ninth Circuit found that the reproduction of thumbnails of plaintiff’s photographs in defendant’s search engine results was transformative, noting that “[the search engine’s] use of the images serves a different function than [plaintiff’s] use — improving access to information on the internet versus artistic expression.” Likewise, in Perfect 10, Inc v. Amazon.com, Inc., the court noted the significant public benefit provided by Google’s image search “by incorporating an origin
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