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Here's what Marie Osmond has to say about Oprah Winfrey's weight loss on Weight Watchers
Marie Osmond seems to be winning the battle of the bulge. The 57-year-old singer and entertainer says she’s lost 50 pounds using Nutrisystem and has been able to keep the weight off during her 10 years as a spokesperson for the weight-loss product company. “Nutrisystem taught me how to eat, so my body
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One thing most people forget about their iPhone batteries
Apple (AAPL) releases a new iPhone every year, and with it comes the implicit message that the one you already have is old. To make matters worse, the phone batteries—enclosed and inaccessible—cannot hold the charge they once could. Facing the full brunt of the purchase price—around $649 for a headphone
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How Warren Buffett made $12 billion in 2016
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), of which Buffett is the largest shareholder, are up about 23% in 2016. Berkshire’s gains have been powered, in part, by the huge rally seen in bank stocks following Donald Trump’s election win. Not bad for someone who very publicly opposed Donald Trump and endorsed
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Trump's 'Thanks Donald!' tweet is accurate
On Tuesday night, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to thank himself for one of the most positive economic readings we’ve seen in 15 years. “The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113.7, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS!” Trump tweeted. Trump’
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Investment wisdom from 5 pros on this year's crazy market
2016 has been a wild ride for stock market investors. The year was heavily peppered with frightening bouts of volatility.
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Fitbit could win in 2017, if it makes some changes
The year is nearly over and for San Francisco-based Fitbit it couldn’t come sooner. Fitbit has yet to recover, even though the fitness tracker market as a whole saw a 31% increase in units shipped in 2016, according to IDC Research. The most damaging news for Fitbit in 2016 came when the company revealed
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OK, Google: Please do these things in 2017
Google didn’t have much to complain about in 2016. Improving privacy might seem like an odd request for Google, a company that makes much of its money selling targeted ads. Google has a good and deserved reputation for standing up to government requests for user data that don’t come backed by a warrant
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A 2017 tech-policy forecast: Washington slams the 'undo' button
President-elect Donald Trump may not have said much during the campaign on the subject, but the Republican majority in the House and Senate doesn’t think much of most of President Barack Obama’s current policies. Most of the GOP eyes the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulations
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Americans can get a snowman shipped to their house for $79
After pausing on his other seasonal business of shipping fall leaves from New England to the less autumnally endowed states, entrepreneur Kyle Waring has been busy shipping boxes of snow across the country, just in time for the holidays. Inundated by orders, Waring pivoted from water bottles and was
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How Chipotle can turn things around in 2017
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) has been suffering ever since late 2015, when an E. Coli outbreak at dozens of its restaurants sickened 55 people in 11 states. The outlook for the fast-casual restaurant became bleaker after a second outbreak infected five more people, and after 80 Boston College students
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Here are some companies Trump might go after next
If you’re the CEO of a big US company, one of your goals for 2017 has got to be staying out of Donald Trump’s crosshairs. “He’s very much driven by gaining respect and appreciation,” Chris Malone, founder of consulting firm Fidelum Partners, says of the incoming president, in the video above. Trump
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Michael Lewis: Trump's election echoes the 2008 financial crisis
This is the question Michael Lewis, author of Money Ball and The Big Short, sought to answer in his new book, The Undoing Project. The flaws of the mind show up time and time again—from the way we judge politics to the miscalculations analysts made when observing financial markets in 2008. Lewis’ narratives
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Those brutally small airplane seats may soon be a thing of the past
Congress may be enjoying near record levels of disapproval, but two representatives have reached across the aisle to fight these airborne walls from closing in, announcing this week they will reintroduce the SEAT act, a backronym standing for Seat Egress in Air Travel. The representatives, Steve Cohen
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Why we still use so many chat and text apps
Take Apple’s iMessage (AAPL) for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers, for instance, whose blue messages has become almost standard thanks to its market penetration as the most popular smartphone in the US. On the face, iMessage pretty much checks all the boxes.
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FCC study shows DSL is terrible, but it doesn’t have to be
The Federal Communications Commission’s sixth annual “Measuring Broadband America” report wastes little time in reminding phone-based digital-subscriber-line (DSL) technology subscribers that they’re stuck in the slow lane. “Average DSL speeds have increased only slightly over these years,” the Dec.
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How Gap can turn things around in 2017
With mall attendance rapidly declining amid e-commerce disruption, an expansive physical empire like Gap’s has become less of a competitive advantage and more of a burden. “While the assortment at Gap has improved under the helm of new management, regaining traffic in retail is a tough task,” JPMorgan
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The perfect last-minute gift for ‘foodies in the boonies’
Co-founder and CEO Joe Ariel was previously at the helm of delivery.com and eats.com. “Over time, as we scale, and [bring on] more regional foodmakers, we’ll be able to compress shipping prices, and things will be more open to a greater amount of people,” he says.
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Last minute holiday gift ideas foodies momofuku
What do you get your friend who has everything? How about the original Boston Cream Pie from Parker House? Or a cheesy deep dish pizza from Gino’s East in Chicago?
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The most improved state of 2016
“Oregon tends to outperform the nation as a whole during expansions,” Tim Duy, the co-director of undergraduate economics at the University of Oregon, tells Yahoo Finance in an email. It doesn’t hurt that personal incomes in Oregon are up nearly 5% since October of last year, according to FindTheHome
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Confirmation that the rally on Wall St. is real and may have legs
Investment bank Jefferies, a bellwether for Wall Street banks, reported its fourth quarter results on Tuesday, and it’s the first sign that the run-up in financials since Donald Trump was elected was justified and probably has more legs. “The year started out for most of us in the financial industry
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