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Why Watching Football May Make You Smarter
by Juliet Barbara
[5 Feb 2012 at 12:32pm]
Super Bowl Sunday is great for so many reasons?the excitement of an unexpected comeback, chicken wings and beer, air high fives with complete strangers. But there's one more advantage to this day: it may make you smarter. Research since the 1990s has suggested that sports fans enjoy a similar mental experience while watching a game ...
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When What's "Good" For General Motors Is Not Good For America ??? or Built To...
by Richard Grant
[5 Feb 2012 at 12:29pm]
An economy that is "built to last" will never be built by government. This might come as a surprise to President , but what is frightening is that it might come as surprise to a plurality of the American electorate. There is nothing like a sweet-sounding, and all but meaningless, phrase to persuade voters to ...
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Shazam, Yahoo, Viggle: Super Bowl Ads' Sizzle Is On Second Screen
by Michael Humphrey
[5 Feb 2012 at 11:33am]
During last year?s Super Bowl, the notion of social television was still new or unknown to most people. Today, social television is going to be in the starting line-up. In fact, the battle on your second screen could be as spirited as the one in Lucas Oil Stadium. And back to winners and losers ? ...
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How The Superbowl Is Going High-Tech In 2012
by E.D. Kain
[5 Feb 2012 at 11:18am]
Football isn?t a high-tech sport, though many great football video games have been made for those of us not built for the real thing. This year, however, the Superbowl is going high-tech. Advertisers are tapping into social media to help promote their ads and products. And the NFL is streaming the game live for the ...
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The Waste of Solar Feed In Tarrifs
by Tim Worstall
[5 Feb 2012 at 11:18am]
I have no idea whether these numbers are correct but if they are they?re a damning indictment of the waste that is the feed in tariff for solar power in the UK: As Lord Marland put it this week: "It is already going to cost the consumer ??7 billion for ??400 million of net present ...
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Billionaires Welcome on Think Tank Boards
by Laurie Bennett
[5 Feb 2012 at 11:15am]
?Is it expecting too much,? a reader asks, ?for you to point out that the guy that owns your publication is on the board of the Heritage Foundation?? The note came in response to our post Saturday about billionaires? foundations supporting U.S. think tanks. Forbes, editor-in-chief of the magazine and and chairman and CEO of ...
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Latest Stadium Technology To Enhance The Fan's Experience
by Mike Ozanian
[5 Feb 2012 at 11:06am]
It costs an arm and a leg to see a professional sports game live. According to Marketing Report, the average cost for a family of four (4 adult average-price tickets, 2 small draft beers, 4 small soft drinks, 4 regular-size hot dogs, parking for 1 car, 2 game programs and 2 least-expensive, adult-size adjustable caps)??to ...
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Making Anti-Malaria Drugs From the Wastes of Producing Anti-Malaria Drugs
by Tim Worstall
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:52am]
This story interested me because it?s actually quite close to my own work in my day job. No, I?m not a world-leading scientist nor do I work in drugs production but there is a similarity all the same. But Peter H Seeberger, the director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, ...
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Technology for All Won't Boost Stock Markets
by Tim Ferguson
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:48am]
This past week, in a discussion group with a top Indian tech executive, I raised the question: Isn?t innovation for the mass market, by which we mean driving technology down to a price where billions can afford it, a ticket for valuation destruction? And if so, can we expect leading corporates to spearhead that innovation? ...
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Ten Superbowl XLVI Ads To Watch For During The Big Game
by E.D. Kain
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:45am]
Watch the best Superbowl ads of 2012 before the game. Advertisers go high-tech for the big game this year. This year the Superbowl is going high-tech. For the first time ever you can watch the game live online or on your mobile phone. You can also watch many of the big game?s big ad spots ...
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Will The Best Super Bowl Spot Be About Hockey, Canadian And Not Even On The B...
by Rob Schwartz
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:35am]
Can a Super Bowl spot that doesn?t have dogs, babies and big celebrities possibly be the best spot of the game? Well, this Budweiser spot certainly makes the case for it. It?s a beautiful story about how Budweiser surprised a group of amateur hockey players by giving their routine game all the festivities of a ...
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Martin: The Inherent Dangers Of The Single Member LLC And Alter Ego Veil Pier...
by Jay Adkisson
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:16am]
Martin v. Freeman, ___ P.3d ____, 2012 WL 311660, 2012 COA 21 (Colo.App., Feb. 2, 2012). Full Opinion at http://goo.gl/OeMWp This case involves a Single Member LLC (?Tradewinds?) that constructed to build an airplane hanger. Tradewinds only had one asset, an airplane, and when litigation arose over the hanger, the airplane was sold and the ...
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Lil Kim Has Big Tax Troubles
by Kelly Phillips Erb
[5 Feb 2012 at 10:11am]
? I don?t make a habit of posting about celebrity tax woes. Quite frankly, I don?t get why most taxpayers care if an occasional pop star or movie mogul owes a few thousand dollars to the IRS (other than a little schadenfreude) since most of the time, I tend to believe that it?s the result ...
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What Hyundai Didn't Include In Its Super Bowl Ad
by Jim Gorzelany
[5 Feb 2012 at 9:51am]
? Like many other automakers Hyundai is running ads on this year?s Super Bowl, including one for its popular Elantra line of cars. By all accounts it?s a straightforward affair, focusing more on the vehicle than on, say, raging zombies, barking/singing dogs or Soup Nazis. If you look closely reports suggest you can even catch ...
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France to Google: Free is Evil
by Tim Worstall
[5 Feb 2012 at 9:19am]
This is very amusing indeed, well, amusing for econ geeks at least. That it should happen in France of all places: A French commercial court has found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company. In a ruling Tuesday, ...
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Keystone Pipeline Ensnared in Politics, Hypocrisy
by Ken Silverstein
[5 Feb 2012 at 9:18am]
The Keystone XL pipeline may have kicked off the presidential race but it's also setting the stage for a Battle Royale in Congress. Not only are senior House Republican preparing to link its construction to key spending bills but they are also playing up the Obama administration's apparent hypocrisy. When news spread on Friday that ...
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Top Tax Tips From Zuckerberg's Facebook Bonanza
by Robert W. Wood
[5 Feb 2012 at 9:14am]
The revelation that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise $5 billion worth of stock options before his IPO suggests his 2012 tax bill could be close to $2 billion! See Zuckerberg?s 2012 personal income??tax bill: $1.5 billion. If size matters, that will make Zuckerberg The Incredible Hulk of Taxpayers. After all, the 400 wealthiest filers ...
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Are the Anti-Putin Protests Too Centered on Moscow?
by Mark Adomanis
[5 Feb 2012 at 9:06am]
The massive anti-Putin??protest in Moscow early??yesterday seems to have gone off rather smoothly. In stark contrast to the way the have behaved over the past decade, but in keeping with their suddenly??acquired??manners, the OMON and the various parts of the militsia behaved themselves: I haven?t seen any reports of violence or clashes nor any reports ...
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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Set for Super Sunday
by Frederick E. Allen
[5 Feb 2012 at 7:40am]
With the biggest sports event of the year upon us this week, drew leadership inspiration from both and Eli Manning with ?Know Your Teammates: Lessons from the Super Bowl Quarterbacks.? ??looked beyond both those stars with her ?Super Bowl MVP Prediction: No, Not Brady or Manning. It?s .? let us know who???also neither Brady nor ...
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Interview: Humanitarian Bob Geldof
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
Twenty-one years ago, musician and humanitarian Bob Geldof organized Live Aid, a series of concerts aimed at fighting famine in Africa. Last year, Geldof helped organized Live 8, a concert series focused on debt relief for developing nations. David Gardner reflects on our previous conversation with the Live Aid and Live 8 organizer.
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Interview: Actor Vern Troyer
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
He's the man behind the Austin Powers character Mini-Me. Vern Troyer talks with Fool Radio about the big business of Hollywood.
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Interview: Heavyweight George Foreman
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
He's a key player in the boxing and business worlds. Heavyweight champ and cooking icon George Foreman talks boxing, business, and bad investments.
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Disclaimer
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
Our Foolish reminder to look before you leap into investing.
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Interview: Don Ho
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
He's the man who made a big business out of Tiny Bubbles. Fool Radio brings a little vacation to you, Hawaiian style, when we talk business with the one and only Don Ho.
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Game: Name That Voice
[31 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
How well do know your CEOs and celebrities? Fool Radio puts you to the test in our game, Name That Voice.
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Wrap Up
[24 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
We reflect on some of the show's more memorable moments.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
[24 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
Netflix is the world's largest online movie rental service, with more than 4.2 million subscribers and access to over 55,000 DVD titles. So what does the future hold for the DVD rental giant? What is the future of video-on-demand? And does Netflix really believe in "throttling"? On this week's Motley Fool Radio Show, David Gardner talks DVDs with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
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'Wal-Mart Effect' Author Charles Fishman
[24 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
Wal-mart is a business with 1.6 million employees in the United States alone. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. And more than half of all Americans live within 5 miles of a Wal-mart store. David Gardner talks about the big, big business of Wal-mart with Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy.
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Interview: Blue Nile CEO Mark Vadon
[17 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
Blue Nile recently announced that growth would be slowing, and its shares are slumping. Does the online diamond retailer have serious flaws? David Gardner talks hard rock and hard knocks with Blue Nile CEO Mark Vadon.
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Interview: Pampered Chef CEO Doris Christopher
[17 Mar 2006 at 5:00pm]
The phenomenally successful Pampered Chef company calls itself "the kitchen store that comes to your door." Started in a Chicago basement in 1980, the company -- now owned by Warren Buffett -- has 70,000 independent consultants who conduct one million shows for 12 million customers each year. David talks about the recipe for business success with Pampered Chef founder and CEO Doris Christopher.
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