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GamePro, the gaming magazine, is closing its doors after 22 years.

Nokia plans to sell off its WiMax division and shed 17,000 jobs as part of a restructuring plan.

French firm Atos is taking extreme measures to stop spam by cutting out internal company e-mail all together.

American Airlines and its parent company are filing for bankruptcy protection as they try to cut costs and unload massive debt built up by years of high fuel prices and labor struggles. There will no impact on travelers for now.

The FAA demands that you turn off electronic devices during takeoff and landing, though there’s no evidence to indicate an interference problem with avionics.

Fantastical is the Mac calendar you’ll actually enjoy. Create events with simple sentences like “Go to lunch with John on Tuesday” or “Summer vacation 6/9-6/16.” Easily locate and search for your events with Fantastical’s beautiful and easy to navigate calendar. … Continued

Bitcoin, the preferred currency of the drug server Silk Road, is on the decline. Benjamin Wallace examines what led to its creation and its downfall.

Frugal Dad has posted an interesting infographic that shows just how consolidated news, information and entertainment is in the United States. The results are truly astonishing: six megacorporations control 90 percent of what we read, watch, or listen to. It’s … Continued

Brent Simmons on trying to read a news story: I was there because I just wanted to read something. Words. Black text on a white background, more-or-less. And what I saw — at a professional publication, a site with the … Continued

Let’s see how the cache does.

Nielsen:

Recent weekly Nielsen surveys of shoppers show that, much like in 2010, the majority of consumers (80%) are avoiding in-store Black Friday shopping. While increased Black Friday promotions appeal to consumer’s desire for “hot deals,” as a shopping event, Black Friday is becoming less relevant in the retail world as online shopping grows and holiday promotions begin earlier and earlier in the year. In fact, 35 percent of those recently survey cited they’ve already started their holiday shopping.

Let’s try this.

A new study shows that watching Fox News makes you stupider than if you hadn’t.

John Murrell: Parr then confirmed his departure to AllThingsD, indicating that he’d have more to say on Monday. Mashable limited its official response to a single sentence, “confirming the terms of departure were termination.” This should be interesting.

This one should have no infinity symbol, but larger text in the headline.

Here’s a link to The Loop. Infinity symbol should show up after the headline, but not before.

Where does the infinity symbol show up?

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