Anybeat, a social network that launched last year as a kind of “anti-Facebook” to meet people you don’t already know, is getting bought by another company and is shutting down. The company posted a message to its users a few hours ago noting that it would be closing up operations in two weeks. The service, [...]
2012Fri11May
?Anonymous? Social Network Anybeat Is Getting Bought And Shut Down. Dmitry Shapiro Going To Google+?
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Jessica Sanchez gets major points for showing confidence and taking risks this season on American Idol. First, the singer covered Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” as challenging a track as there could be for a contestant to attempt. Then, last night, she went with “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” the [...]
Mitt Romney is way ahead of Ron Paul in the delegate count. But Paul’s enthusiastic forces have been effective in controlling state party apparatus, and this could impact the GOP convention. Ron Paul has the proverbial snowball?s chance in Hades of becoming the Republican presidential nominee this year. Compared to presumptive front-runner Mitt Romney (switching [...]
LAS VEGAS ? Casino operator Las Vegas Sands says it earned $320.1 million during the fourth quarter as the company set an internal record for revenue, thanks mainly to more people gambling at its resorts in Macau and Singapore. Sands’ net income of $320 million, or 39 cents per share, was 17.2 percent higher than [...]
2012Mon30Jan
Gingrich???s Space Colony Proposition Unrealistic (ContributorNetwork)
Filed in heightenedCOMMENTARY | Apparently the moon is the next prime real estate for U.S. citizens, or so former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich seems to think. In the Thursday Florida primary debate, Gingrich expanded on his previous claim that if elected president, he would make every effort to establish a space [...]
LUTZ, Fla. ? Newt Gingrich is calling GOP president rival Mitt Romney a “pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase liberal.” Gingrich made the comments outside a church in Lutz., Fla., two days before the pivotal presidential primary. Gingrich is trailing Romney in Florida and has been labeling the former governor a Massachusetts moderate. Now Gingrich is [...]
2012Wed25Jan
Rep. Clyburn: Gingrich ???appealing??? to racist ???element??? of GOP [VIDEO] (Daily Caller)
Filed in heightenedThe assistant Democratic leader, South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, accused former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of ?appealing? to the racist tea party ?element? of the Republican Party in his campaign. Gingrich won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on Saturday. ?It?s appealing to the tea party element when you say that Barack [...]
>>> the holiday cheer isn’t exactly spreading on capitol hill . republicans are pushing hard against a senate approved bill involving your taxes. chuck todd is nbc’s political director and chief white house correspondent. >> deja vu all over again, when it looked like [...]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) ? Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich’s status as the front runner for the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nomination is fading after weeks of attacks by rivals and intense media scrutiny of his political record and personality. Gingrich acknowledged that negative advertisements by political opponents had dented his popularity but suggested [...]
2011Fri16Dec
GOP race in a microcosm: Romney fund-raising in NY, Gingrich lectures on brain research
Filed in heightenedMitt Romney is fund-raising in New York. Newt Gingrich is talking about brain science research in Iowa. What are the other Republican candidates doing today? That?s how Decoder feels looking at the schedules for each of the GOP candidates today. It?s not poetically perfect by any stretch, but examining what each of the candidates is [...]
