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Kanye West buys domain name for new short film. Kanye West has made some interesting naming decisions in the past. So let’s give him credit for buying CruelSummer.com for $3,000. Cruel Summer is the name of his new short film. Here are some other end user domain buys from the past week. All sales took [...]

When we last spoke to investor Jim Nichols pre-Facebook IPO, he was eagerly waiting to find out how many shares of Facebook he could buy through E*Trade, where he put in an early order for stock. On Friday at opening bell, he bought 50 shares at $38 -- with no commission. That cost him about $1,900. But by Friday lunchtime he checked stock prices from a reststop in Marlington, W.Va., where he w...

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Oil rebounded in Asian trade today as investors bought into the market after prices fell below $90 a barrel the previous day, analysts said.

Strong gains in the Midwest and West propel gradually improving housing market.

If you've ever bought a Groupon, you might be getting an email this week about a class-action lawsuit involving the expiration dates on the company's daily deals.

A pair of Queen Elizabeth II's (unauthenticated) 26-inch knickers from 1968 which are embroidered with an 'E' have been bought on eBay for the huge fee.

The deal is SAP's second of similar size in recent memory. The first one unleashed a series a deals by rival Oracle and Salesforce.com.

Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC (left) shakes hands with Zhang Lin, vice-president of Wanda during a signing ceremony in Beijing today for the sale of the American cinemas. It is the largest-ever takeover of a U.S. business by a Chinese company.

The Hidden Hills home that was the centerpiece of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" for 5 seasons has been sold -- and the TV producer who bought it has exorcised all Kardashian demons by tearing the whole thing down ... except for one precious…

While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner's circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.

Seattle couple who lived in $1.2M home and bought expensive jewelry while collecting welfare pleads guilty

A COUPLE who did not know when they bought a €260,000 house it was designated as a holiday home have settled their High Court action against a solicitor who handled the deal.

Renouncing U.S. citizenship, as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin did, should come with tough restrictions on returning to the land that nurtured the wealth.Is citizenship a commodity, to be bought and sold when the price is right?

  Alton Flanders represented by John Berryhill, just beat back a UDRP on his domain name CondomWorld.com The complaint was bought by Nicholas Perez who claimed he owned an US Trademark on the term CONDOM WORLD and common law rights to the term. The complaint said he uses the term as the name of retail stores that sell condoms and other adult-oriented products in Puerto Rico. Here are the releva...

WAYNE Swan has achieved a direct appeal to Labor's base and some support bought from families and low-income earners.

Home minister P Chidambaram invoked Tamil saint Thiruvalluvar while refuting the Opposition’s allegation in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that his son Karti bought shares in telecom firms Aircel and Malaysia-based Maxis between March and October 2006. HT reports. Chidambaram's son clarifies

Citigroup‘s Joe Yoo this afternoon reiterates a Buy rating on shares of disk-drive maker Western Digital (WDC), and a $53 price target, writing that the company’s 10-Q filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, posted this morning, reveals the company bought back about 1 million shares per day between April 27th and May 8th, which [...]

A fault with WH Smith's IT system cause all of its till receipts to say customers have bought "The Queen's Knickers".

Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Wiltamuth pulled Target (TGT) off of his Best Ideas list today as investors appear to be putting a more appropriate value on the company’s Canadian assets. Target bought leaseholds for 220 Zeller’s department stores in Canada in 2011, with plans to start opening Target stores in 2013. Despite investors’ newfound appreciation [...]

Businessman Denis O'Brien has bought 5 per cent of Independent News & Media today, increasing his stake to 27 per cent, a source close to the company told Reuters.

David McKendrick operates Fused Network, a Toronto based web hosting provider, which prides itself in quality web hosting services for more than a decade. David’s business runs and operates Fused.com along with various other TLDs. In a recent blog post, David talks about how investing in variants of your business name can safeguard your brand [...]

THE armed bank robber was nicked drinking coffee bought with £20 he stole in the raid

How many people bought technology stocks years after the Internet bust? The same thing is going on now with one of the few hot asset classes of the last decade: emerging-market stocks.

The origin of the costly "gift" -- a DC-9 aircraft -- is a mystery, but activists say it was bought for King Mswati III by Swaziland's government.

University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 7:20 P.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, Boulder!  (Applause.)  How's it going, Buffaloes?  (Applause.)  Well, you guys are just happy because school is almost out, isn’t it?  (Laughter.)   Please give Daniel a big round of applause for that great introduction.  (Applause.)  I just saw Daniel over at The Sink.  (Applause.)  I bought some pizza.  And...

Facebook pays $550 million for patents. What should we call them, Brangelina-style? Facesoft? Microbook? Signs of Facebook and Microsoft’s close ties emerged again yesterday, when the two companies jointly announced that Facebook would fork over $550 million to Microsoft to acquire many of the patents that the Redmond company had bought from AOL a few weeks ago for $1.065 billion.

Facebook is paying Microsoft $550m (£341m) for some of the patents it recently bought from AOL - the latest technology patent deal.

The FDA warned more than 50 doctors and medical practices in the U.S. that they may have bought a fake version of the cancer drug Avastin.

Catalyst Health Solutions, a Rockville firm that manages prescription drug benefits for companies and government agencies, was scooped up by Lisle, Ill.-based competitor SXC Health Solutions on Wednesday in a deal worth $4.4 billion. Read full article >>

In a deal that could propel the $650-million (Rs 3,315- crore) Piramal Healthcare (PHL) into the billion dollar revenue league (Rs 5,100 crore), the Ajay Piramal-led company has bought the molecular imaging research and development portfolio of Bayer AG, which includes the rights to an Alzheimer’s treatment drug.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford, Wyoming - population 1....

SINGER is acting like a typical girlfriend — she bought her boyfriend Taylor Kinney a pet and even double-dates

Emil Zatopek won gold in the 1948 London Games, where he bought two gold rings for his fiancée, Dana Zatopkova, who finished seventh in the javelin.

LONDON (Reuters) - A new batch of counterfeit cancer drug Avastin discovered in the United States was bought in Turkey and shipped through Britain by UK-based middlemen, officials said on Wednesday, revealing a shipment pattern very similar to an earlier episode.

Brussels launches two investigations into whether Motorola Mobility, which is being bought by Google, illegally overcharged rivals for its patents

Cabbage—the first word put down with his new pen, a trophy pen, like a trophy wife, not cheap, absurd to use a ballpoint pen for a task like this, a challenge, for which he’d also bought a new, but ancient, rolltop desk recently restored, with matching . . . (Subscription required.)

Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy will not be buying Rangers and has urged the club's administrators to opt for a rival bid instead.

David Beckham is selling off his £500,000 car collection. The 36-year-old LA Galaxy footballer has reportedly decided to clear out the garage at Beckingham Palace - the UK house he and wife Victoria bought in 1999 - now they live in America full time. Two Bentleys, a BMW 645, a Range Rover Sport and his Lamborghini Gallardo worth £170,000 are all expected to go, along with three ...

Anwar Masalaha from Abu Sinan in the Galilee bought pen knife and stabbed 65-year-old Esther Porat 13 times, according to indictment.

PRIVATE emails from Syrian president Bashar Assad show he bypassed US sanctions for music while his wife bought luxury goods on iTunes.

THE singer and her husband Rene Angelil are now the proud owners of Montreal's famous Schwartz's store, which was founded in 1928.

Last week, 16 pieces of German art resurfaced in a Czech convent and now they are being seen for the first time since Hitler bought them in the mid 1940s

So far, 2012 is bringing bad news for people who don't want "free antibiotics" in their food.Antibiotics are routinely given to livestock on factory farms to make them gain weight with less feed and keep them from getting sick in confinement conditions. But the daily dosing, at the same time it lowers feed needs, lowers drug effectiveness and produces antibiotic resistant bacteria or super bugs...

PRIVATE INVESTORS bought Irish Government bonds yesterday for the first time since September 2010. The National Treasury Management Agency sold just over €3.5 billion worth of three-year debt.

A man who bought crates off the back of a lorry in Russia for firewood finds that they contain 79 Kalashnikov assault rifles and parts.

With big bucks come big responsibility. A Tokyo man says he bought a nearly 600-pound bluefin tuna for over $735,000 — the most expensive tuna ever sold anywhere, ever — because he wanted to “lift up Japan’s spirits,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The giant fish was caught in Oma, a town in northeastern Japan, the area hardest hit by last year’s earthquake and tsunami. Dep...

A mother of two bought the rights to Frozen Dead Guy Days, a festival in Nederland, Colo., inspired by a corpse that has been kept on ice for going on 20 years.

GERMAN national who bought under first home buyers' grant, then returned home, is one of more than 900 forced to repay the grants.

"I like to feel a little more together - you never know who you're going to see out there," the We Bought a Zoo star says

All together now, readers: If you hate "Glee" so much, Matt, why do you keep watching it? I don't know, folks. At the risk of sounding like a masochistic romantic who's stuck in a tortuous relationship -- Dear diary, I can't TAKE this anymore, it's horrible and it's KILLING me ... but OH MY GOD IF YOU COULD HAVE SEEN THE GIFT SHE BOUGHT ME! -- I have to go on the record about ...

The Council on Foreign Relations bought all the seats in the house for a performance of J. T. Rogers’s play “Blood and Gifts.”

Take heed, all those who've bought Tim Tebow jerseys — he'll be on the Broncos' bench by Black Friday 2012, and probably a lot sooner than that.Take heed, all those who've bought Tim Tebow jerseys — he'll be on the Broncos' bench by Black Friday 2012, and probably a lot sooner than that.

Obama may have bought himself a reprieve with the environmentalists, but nothing else will change

PARIS (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic pulled out of the Paris Masters Friday because of a sore shoulder and apologized to fans who had bought tickets for his quarter-final showdown with French favorite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.