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The business, www.MyDirndl.com is an online German Import store that provides traditional German clothing, bier steins, cuckoo clocks, Oktoberfest decorations and many more Bavarian gift items
Jun 25 '07 -Business- -award,business,german
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They serve retail and wholesale customers in North America, Australia, and Europe.
Jun 25 '07 -Business- -award,business,german
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The unusual deal, which is expected to be announced today, would give GLG, based in London, a footprint in the United States and access to public markets at a time when investors still seem eager for the enormous returns that hedge funds have generated in recent years
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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This article was reported by Jo Becker, Richard Siklos, Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, and written by Ms.Becker. Skip to next paragraph The Murdochracy Mixing Government and Media Times Topics: Rupert Murdoch Multimedia Graphic Murdoch’s Universe In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in jeopardy
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,political,business
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Also yesterday, Istithmar, an investment company run by the Dubai government, and Sal
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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As part of the deal, Mr.Berggruen and Mr.Franklin of Freedom will join GLG’s board
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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The Fortress Investment Group undertook a conventional initial public offering in February, but Oaktree Capital Management sold $700 million in shares through a private market run by Goldman Sachs
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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Mydirndl.com, LLC was presented with the Pinellas County Economic Development Group award, The Emerging Entrepreneur Award for business, on May 8th, 2007 in Clearwater Florida
Jun 25 '07 -Business- -award,business,german
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Furthermore, it will describe its earnings as fee income, rather than as capital gains, as many hedge funds and private equity firms do
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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GLG, which was founded in 1995 as a division of Lehman Brothers and became independent in 2000, is widely known in Europe but relatively unknown in the United States
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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More than 30 years after the Australian-born Mr.Murdoch arrived on the American newspaper scene and turned The New York Post into a racy, right-leaning tabloid, his holding company, the News Corporation, has offered $5 billion to buy a pillar of the business news establishment — Dow Jones, parent company of The Wall Street Journal
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,political,business
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Also joining the board will be Paul Myners, chairman of the Guardian Media Group of London, and Peter Weinberg, co-founder of Perella Weinberg Partners, the investment bank that advised GLG on the deal.
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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But Mr.Hundt declined to strip Mr.Murdoch of his licenses, reasoning that the fault lay with the Reagan-era F.C.C.for approving the acquisitions in the first place.Mr.Padden, who has left the News Corporation, refused requests for an interview
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,time,
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It was the first of many victories for Mr.Murdoch in the new political climate that swept into Washington in 1994 when the Republicans won control of Congress
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,time,
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A growing number of entrepreneurs are placing their bets, however, on a hybrid system that puts humans back into the search equation
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Google contends that its search engine relies on humans and machines
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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In the end, the F.C.C.found that the deal had violated the rules
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,time,
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Mr.Murdoch has said he prefers the model of committee used at The Times of London
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -times,mrmurdoch,journal
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Ms.Salamon initially dismissed Mr.Murdoch
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -times,mrmurdoch,journal
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All of the links listed in Mahalo send the user to Web pages that contain genuine content, not sales pitches in disguise
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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GLG will go public as a corporation, rather than as a partnership like Fortress and Blackstone, and will pay taxes at the corporate rate, people with knowledge of the transaction said
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -glg,company,public
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How best to utilize that information requires continuing work by human engineers
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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The combination of low start-up costs and potentially huge profit makes it seem a reasonable bet
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Many companies publish books by public officials
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -book,harpercollins,media
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The Times is the only British newspaper with a Baghdad bureau
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -times,mrmurdoch,journal
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Ultimately, a federal appeals court threw out the new rules
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -book,harpercollins,media
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Developing a search algorithm can be accomplished by very small teams
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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It was while he was an entrepreneur in residence that Jason Calacanis had the inspiration for Mahalo.Mr.Calacanis, 36, published The Silicon Alley Reporter in the mid-1990s and went on to be a co-founder of Weblogs, a federation of blogging sites that was sold to AOL in 2005 for about $25 million
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Bessed also relies on users to suggest the best Web pages for a topic, but then has editors refine them
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Profit margins in the search business are mind-boggling, and cannot be obtained in other segments of the technology world
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Powell had proposed, said his spokesman, Nick Simpson.Mr.Simpson added that Mr.
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -book,harpercollins,media
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Results of a trial run showed sharp drops in ratings for shows carried on stations owned by the News Corporation, particularly those aimed at minority viewers
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news
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Therefore, no daunting learning curve will frighten customers who are considering moving to another search engine
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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ONCE upon a time, the most valuable secret formula in American business was Coca-Cola’s
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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ChaCha gives customers the opportunity to have an online chat with a human being who can provide search assistance
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Change mode will show you which stocks have gotten more volatile (green) or more stable (red).
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.stockcharts.com -ppo,values,band
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All sit on either the Commerce or Judiciary Committees that most closely oversee the media business
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -book,harpercollins,media
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The use of subject categories also eliminates the need to provide, as Google does, two-line text excerpts from the listed sites to provide clues about the site’s contents
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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Charging that the system was faulty and that it undercounted minorities, the firm started an extensive advertising campaign intended to delay the rollout of the new technology and staged protests around the country that drew such unlikely allies as the Rev.Al Sharpton
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news
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In October 2006, when Bessed began its search service with the manually edited results pages, it had only two editors and covered just a few hundred search terms suggested randomly by users
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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With millions of dollars at stake, Mr.Murdoch sprang into action
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news
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They beat out Alta Vista, whose search engine was developed by seven people at the Digital Equipment Corporation
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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True, but one could argue that at Google the machine has the final say
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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It started with several advantages: venture capital backing, 30 editors, systematic focus on the most commonly requested search terms, and the added idea of supplying Google’s search results for any search not covered by its own best-of-the-best lists
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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What worries his critics is that Mr.Murdoch will use The Journal, which has won many Pulitzer Prizes and has a sterling reputation for accuracy and fairness, as yet another tool to further his myriad financial and political agendas
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -mrmurdoch,political,business
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This includes the major market averages like the Dow, the Nasdaq, and the NYSE composite; the major indices like the S&P 500, the Russell 2000 and the Wilshire index; the Amex Sector SPDRs; the International WEBS; and almost 30 different industry indices including ones for gold stocks, oil stocks and the various high-tech industries
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.stockcharts.com -carpet,funds,fund
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Nielsen Media Research was preparing to switch to a more sophisticated technology to calculate ratings that television stations use to set advertising rates for local programming
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news
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The company is financed by Sequoia Capital, which knows something about the search business: It was an early backer of both Yahoo and Google
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.tuscaloosanews.com -search,google,results
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On June 5 and 6 of this year, Mr.Ginsberg and Peter A.Chernin, president and chief operating officer of the News Corporation, were hosts of back-to-back fund-raisers for Mrs.Clinton’s presidential campaign, one in New York and one in Los Angeles
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news
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Murdoch publicly denied making the threat
Jun 25 '07 -Business- www.nytimes.com -nielsen,york,news

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