Yahoo Wants Hulu, Too

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Marissa Mayer is coming for online video — and the ads that accompany it. Days after announcing its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, Yaho has submitted a bid for Hulu. Now starts the bidding war, all $2 billion of it.

By David Wagner

Jan 30, 2013

How the GDP's Big Shrink Might Impact a Budget Deal

U.S. gross domestic product fell by 0.1 percent in 2012's fourth quarter, and analysts are chalking up the losses to reduced government spending — especially on defense. Will evidence about downsized federal budgets shrinking GDP change how lawmakers approach the budget fight?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 29, 2013

$100 Million in Oil Money Richer, Al Gore's Unsure Why Critics Are Being So Critical

Al Gore is a complicated, accomplished man. Sometimes, he's misunderstood, while other times he's misunderestimated. But Al Gore is not disingenious. At least, according to Al Gore he's not.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 29, 2013

PBR Bailout Brings Twinkie Fever to New Extremes

Beleaguered but beloved snack-cake brand Twinkies may have found a solution to its bankruptcy problems that involves joining forces with owner of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — and, yes, the Twinkie hysteria has returned, this time for good.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 28, 2013

Bank of America Wants to Be Your Friend Again

You know that term "fair weather friend?" No? Let us introduce you to Bank of America, the nation's largest lender, instigator of the Financial Crisis and newfound believers in customer service.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 28, 2013

Scott Brown's Twitter Rant Will Not Stop Haunting Him

The now former Senator got a little carried away responding to critics on Twitter over the weekend, which shouldn't be a big deal, but apparently it is when you're expected to run for a vacant Senate seat and now everyone is taking his "whatevers" so seriously.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 28, 2013

The Six Degrees of Separation Between Joseph Goebbels and Daimler and BMW

You won't believe how easy it is for someone to connect Nazi propaganda mastermind Joseph Goebbels to the luxury car manufacturers Dailmer and BMW.

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By David Wagner

Jan 28, 2013

Welcome to the End of Barnes & Noble as You Knew It

Readers who loyally buy print books from hundreds of Barnes & Noble stores may soon have to settle for the Nook. According to a top executive, as much as a third of their stores will be closed over the next 10 years.

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By Jen Doll

Jan 28, 2013

'Girls': How Can Good TV Feel So Bad?

If art's great power is making the person who interacts with that art feel something, you could argue that HBO's Girls is highly successful television. But if a TV show consistently makes a watcher feel bad, can it be good?

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By Richard Lawson

Jan 25, 2013

A Survival Guide to the Worst Weekend of the Year

It's cold out there, and the new movies don't look great, and there's no football. But don't despair! There's plenty else you can do to entertain yourself between now and the next time you work.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 25, 2013

Spatwatch

How Two Hedge-Fund Giants Turned a Schoolyard Fight into a TV Battle Royale

Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn just took their Herbalife scuffle to CNBC for perhaps the most entertaining half-hour in the history of financial news television. Here's the story behind the story, and who came out on top.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 24, 2013

Apple's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Historically Bad Day

Did you buy Apple stock recently? If yes, we're sorry. Because on Thursday, Apple stock plummeted a gut-wrenching 12 percent. That amounts to $52 billion of money that's just gone.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 23, 2013

How the Most Notoriously Corrupt NCAA Program Corrupted Its Own NCAA Probe

The NCAA's investigation into improper recruiting by a University of Miami athletic program that's seemingly always under investigation now won't see an end anytime soon... because the NCAA's own investigation has been compromised.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 22, 2013

Donald Trump Wants What He Can't Have

When you think of "rich guys who might buy The New York Times," how long does it take you to get to Donald Trump? 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 20, 2013

Newspapers Are So Poor, They're Leasing Out Laid Off Reporters' Desks

Things aren't as bad as they used to be in the newspapers business, but they're not good either. Perpetually faced with declining ad revenue, several papers have become landlords recently.

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 18, 2013

How Bad Is the New Honda Recall?

In 2012, Honda recalled one of their models for a safety risk about once every month, but this may be the end of a cycle, if Toyota's experiences are any indication.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 17, 2013

The Shrinking Subway Foot-Long and Other Chain-Store Myths for Consumers

Everyone is upset with Subway today because, well, occasionally their footlong subs don't always measure out to a complete foot long. But Subway isn't the only place you can find retailers coming up short.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 16, 2013

The FAA Says Every Single Dreamliner in the World Will Soon Be Grounded

It just got real for Boeing. On Wednesday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said that it was grounding all of the 787 Dreamliners operated by U.S. carriers due to safety concerns.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Jan 16, 2013

How the Twin Towers Disappeared from 'The Carrie Diares' and 'Sex and the City'

Turns out it was a conscious decision, the prequel's showrunner tells The Atlantic Wire, and one that echoes how the franchise has approached the iconic buildings since September 11, 2001.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 16, 2013

Jamie Dimon's Punishment for London Whale Was Still a $10 Million Bonus

Someone had to pay the price for that debacle. And that someone was J.P. Morgan's CEO, who saw his annual bonus slashed to a measly $10 million, a 53.5-percent pay cut from the year before.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 15, 2013

Japan's Largest Airline Just Grounded Its Entire Fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Wednesday marked another day in Japan and another emergency landing for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. This time it's serious, though. Smoke in the cockpit, serious.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 14, 2013

HP Starts Layoffs for the Company That Brought It Down

Well you had to see this coming, sadly: HP has decided to do a little housecleaning at Autonomy, the company it acquired that it claims led to that huge $8.8 billion loss still shaking the tech giant.

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Bedbugs Infest 'Wall Street Journal' HQ

Wall Street Journal employees began their day this morning with a bit of a headscratcher. (More of a head-to-toe scratcher, really.) And this is not the first time.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 13, 2013

iPhone Fever Is Fading

Apple's once unwavering grasp on the smartphone industry is showing more signs of weakening, as it cuts iPhone orders by about 50 percent "due to weaker-than-expected demand."

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 13, 2013

The First New Corvette in Nearly a Decade Looks Just Like the Old Corvette

A few hours before the first press events at North America International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit, General Motors stole the thunder with an invitation-only event to unveil the all new Corvette.

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By Jen Doll

Jan 11, 2013

Mastering the Art of the Passive Aggressive Office Memo

We've all seen them, and maybe some of us have posted them. The passive aggressive break room note like, "If this yogurt isn't yours, don't eat it." "Whoever keeps leaving his or her dirty dish in the sink, your mom isn't here to wash it for you." And, of course, the age-old "If you sprinkle when you tinkle" missive, hung up in many a ladies' room.

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By Richard Lawson

Jan 11, 2013

Some Very Important Golden Globe Predictions

The Golden Globe Awards arrive Sunday with a laid-back night full of drunken millionaires handing glorious trophies to each other. Here are some predictions about who will really come out on top on Hollywood's second-biggest night.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 11, 2013

FAA Orders Review of All Boeing 787 Dreamliners

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a safety review of Boeing's flagship plane after two more incidents raised troubling concerns about their integrity.

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By Richard Lawson

Jan 10, 2013

The Call Sheet

Christopher Nolan Plans His Next Picture

Today in show business news: Christopher Nolan has found his followup to The Dark Knight Rises, Ali Larter gets a plum TV role, and Godzilla gets a guy.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 10, 2013

Gawker Has a New Editor in Chief

A.J. Daulerio's tenure at Gawker lasted just over a year. Daulerio, who took over after editing Deadspin editor has quit, and senior writer John Cook is taking over as editor-in-chief.

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By Richard Lawson

Jan 10, 2013

Movie Review

The Senseless Violence of 'Gangster Squad'

Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date. It really wasn't worth all the fuss.

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 9, 2013

Actually, AIG Will Not Be Suing America for Bailing It Out

Less than two days after it began to draw the ire of, well, pretty much every American taxpayer, the insurer's board met today and decided they wouldn't join a lawsuit against the U.S. government.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 8, 2013

What They're Saying About (the) New Republic's New Logo

Everyone knew former Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was going to shake things up at The New Republic, but nobody expected a redesign of the classic DC title to be quite so... sans-serif.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 8, 2013

So What's Tim Cook Doing in China This Time Around?

For the second time in a year Apple CEO Tim Cook has travelled to China, and for the second time the purposes of his visit are shrouded in mystery, speculation, and, of course, tech-world chatter about world domination.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 7, 2013

AIG Is Thinking About Suing the Government for Bailing It Out

It's been almost five years since AIG's stock dropped 60 percent in a day leaving the company doomed to failure, when Uncle Sam swooped in with $182 billion to rescue it.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 7, 2013

Samsung Says It's Making More Money Than Apple Now

Riding the wave of gadget goodness from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung released a pretty impressive set of fourth quarter earnings estimates, including a record high profit.

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By Richard Lawson

Jan 7, 2013

What We Watched

'Downton Abbey' Returns to All Too Familiar Territory

Downton Abbey has, despite its elegance and period delicacy, perhaps entered into its own version of a perilously self-aware phase, too keenly cognizant of the Downton craze at the expense of fostering what created the craze in the first place.

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New Editor at 'New York Observer' Has Family Ties and Maybe Ambitious Hand

Ken Kurson is a political consultant, longtime professional associate of Rudy Giuliani and close friend of Jared Kushner, who owns the paper, and his father Charles.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 4, 2013

The State of the Job Numbers Is Still Good

In the first jobs report of 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8 percent while the U.S. economy added 155,000 new jobs — and that's good news.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 3, 2013

Time Warner Cable Isn't the Only Company Looking to Drop Al Jazeera

We knew that Time Warner Cable dropped Current from its programming line-up, for reasons that remain unclear, right after it was sold to Al Jazeera. But now it's looking like other cable companies are looking for the first possible way out. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 3, 2013

Everyone Wants to Fund Andrew Sullivan (Except for Arizona)

Sullivan announced that the independent version of his blog raised about $300,000 in 24 hours, with reader payments from pretty much everywhere but the great state of Arizona. What gives?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 3, 2013

Time Warner Cable Dropped CurrentTV as Soon as It Was Sold to Al Jazeera

Within hours of CurrentTV officially being sold to Al Jazeera—netting Al Gore a cool $100 million—Time Warner Cable pulled the network from its channel lineups.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 2, 2013

Glenn Beck Tried to Buy Current TV But Was Rejected

Every once in a while a tweet appears that's so silly, it must be a joke. Like this one from Glenn Beck: Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, TheBlaze looked into buying it but we were rejected by progressive owners.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 2, 2013

Al Jazeera Hopes You Will Finally Watch When It Buys Al Gore's Network

We're still not sure how much the surging news organization will pay for Current TV, but we're pretty sure there is a difference between people tuning in to a channel... and just having it available somewhere on your dial.

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 2, 2013

Cliff Diving

Any Fiscal Cliff Deal Would Have Sent the Markets Soaring This High

The contentious fiscal cliff deal struck Tuesday night sent stock markets, here and abroad, "climbing", "surging", "rallying," and "soaring" on Wednesday. Which confirms the importance of striking a deal — any deal! — in the first place.

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By Connor Simpson

Jan 2, 2013

Hillary Really Has Left the Hospital

After reports surfaced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had left the hospital after being successfully treated for a blood clot, the initial word was confirmed as untrue. Well, she has left the hospital, but she hasn't technically been released yet. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 2, 2013

Will You Pay to Read Andrew Sullivan?

Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch up an independent, reader-funded publishing company based around a new kind of pay "meter," and he needs your help to start it — a lot of your help.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 2, 2013

Will Avis Ruin Zipcar?

The aging car-rental giant announced Wednesday morning that it plans to acquire Zipcar for $500 million, but as we've seen recently with Facebook and Instagram, there's always the risk that the big old owner can ruin its disruptive little brother.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 31, 2012

Did Obama Just Make an Assassination Reference?

During a statement at the White House Monday, the president said the following: "I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope." Did Obama let all those comparisons to Lincoln get to him?

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By Esther Zuckerman

Dec 28, 2012

Who Are These Guys You Keep Seeing in All of This Year's Oscar Favorites?

It's rare but not uncommon to see movie stars in multiple Oscar-bait movies in the same year. But it's been a good end of 2012 for those guys who you recognize from somewhere but can't always place. Here are your character-actor MVPs.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 28, 2012

The Port Strike Is Off: Container Cliff Avoided as Fiscal Cliff Summit Looms

Well here's one less thing to worry about: Mediators brokering talks between shipping companies and the International Longshoremens' Association say they've reached a deal that will avert a port strike that was set to begin on Sunday. 

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