TORONTO – Facebook has won 712 million dollars in damages after a California court ruled against a spammer for trying to get personal information from the users of the social networking website.
The court ordered Sanford Wallace to pay Facebook the money after the company complained [...]

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Intuit cuts CEO’s compensation by about half
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Intuit Inc. gave CEO Brad Smith compensation valued at $3.6 million, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing made Friday. The compensation was about half of what he earned last year, as the financial software maker’s profit took a [...]

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Gates among Obama’s Oval Office guests
WASHINGTON — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was among those landing Oval Office visits with President Barack Obama during his first months in office.
The White House late Friday afternoon released a partial list of visitors to the White House since Obama took office in January. The list identified two [...]

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Correction of a defective gene is a promising approach for both basic research and clinical gene therapy. However, the absence of site-specific targeting and the low efficiency of homologous recombination in human cells present barriers to successful gene targeting. In an effort to overcome these barriers, we utilized triplex-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs) conjugated to a DNA [...]

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Authors: J L Dembinski, E L Spaeth, J Fueyo, C Gomez-Manzano, M Studeny, M Andreeff
& F C Marini (Source: Cancer Gene Therapy)

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Authors: R Zhang, L Ma, M Zheng, J Ren, T Wang, Y Meng, J Zhao, L Jia, L Yao, H Han, K Li
& A Yang (Source: Cancer Gene Therapy)

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CONCLUSIONS. Ex vivo cell therapy and gene therapy have helped to expand our knowledge about plasticity and the mechanisms and factors that promote cell integration within the central nervous system. Although behavioural improvements have been reported in animal and human models, further work is still required on these studies to clear up a number of [...]

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Las Vegas Sands, MetLife, Manitowoc are big movers
NEW YORK — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange:
NYSE:
Alcatel-Lucent, down 48 cents at $3.69
The telecommunications equipment maker saw its net loss widen in the third quarter as European phone companies cut back on spending.
Harman International [...]

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Novatel shares tumble after 4Q outlook disappoints
NEW YORK — Shares of Novatel Wireless Inc. tumbled Friday after the wireless high-speed Internet service provider posted a disappointing outlook for the fourth quarter.
Novatel’s third-quarter results reported Thursday were strong, topping analyst estimates. But investors spooked by the fourth-quarter outlook sent shares down $3.32, or 27.3 percent, to [...]

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Mass. Dem. Senate hopefuls differ on casino gaming
BOSTON — The four Democratic candidates vying for the late Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat have finally found something they can disagree on: casino gambling.
After concurring on everything from expanded health care to opposing an Afghanistan troop build-up, Attorney General Martha Coakley, U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, Alan Khazei and [...]

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CDC Software sees 3Q profit above expectations
ATLANTA — Business software developer CDC Software Corp. said Friday it expects its earnings to surpass Wall Street’s expectations in the third quarter.
The company forecast earnings of $5.8 million to $6.4 million for the third quarter. Excluding items, CDC expects earnings of 33 cents per share for the three [...]

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Are you all set for the scariest Halloween party? If you are done with your Halloween costumes, here’s some cool idea to dash off your Halloween. Most of you on Facebook spend hours grilling what’s on your mind stuff. Well, there are more than enough spooky, scary Facebook apps for Halloween that you can afford [...]

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Sony stays in the red, trims annual loss forecast
TOKYO — Sony reported a smaller-than-expected 26.3 billion yen ($289 million) quarterly loss as cost cuts combined with healthy sales of PlayStation 3 game consoles and Michael Jackson hits helped it inch toward recovery.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant has been battered by the global [...]

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Is you PC scaring you this Halloween? Most of you must have been googling for Halloween costumes for quite sometime now. If you weren’t lucky enough, you must have landed up in malicious zone. Reports from security software solution provider Trend Micro suggests that trustworthy, legitimate sites have been infected and you might land up [...]

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Toshiba ekes out small profit in 2nd quarter
TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. said Friday it eked out a small profit in the July-September quarter on cost-cutting and higher sales of memory chips.
The Japanese electronics company reported a net profit of 100 million yen ($1.1 million) for the fiscal second quarter, up from a net [...]

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Web marketer ordered to pay Facebook $711M damages
LOS ANGELES — Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users’ accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. The company [...]

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The recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement, but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics. (2009-10-30)

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Stories are told from time to time and then retold and retold about whales attacking sailboats. Some of them sound fanciful and are third and fourth hand.Here is a current account of what appears to be a genuine attack by whales or whales on a sailboat yesterday off the Baja California coast. The boat sank [...]

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Reporting in The Lancet, doctors found success in treating Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a rare type of blindness, with gene therapy. Study author Katherine High explains how injecting a gene-carrying virus into the eye has improved vision in a handful of patients.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

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