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Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple’s music streaming service tomorrow

“What does Apple bring to this?” Morris said. “Well, they’ve got $178 billion dollars in the bank. And they have 800 million credit cards in iTunes. Spotify has never really advertised because it’s never been profitable. My guess is that Apple will promote this like crazy and I think that will have a halo effect on the streaming business.

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DOOM, Pong, Tetris Inducted Into World Video Game Hall of Fame

The Strong® welcomed six games into the inaugural class of its World Video Game Hall of Fame™.

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The Big Business of Selling Your Old Clothes

“These guys look a little too beat up for us,” he says, scrutinizing a pair of metallic Calvin Klein pumps that are practically melting at the heel, “but I hope you had an awesome night out in them!”

Once Goellner gets to the bottom of the bag, he informs his customer she’s done really well and explains how Buffalo Exchange, like most buy-sell-trade stores, work: you get 50 percent of the sale in store credit or 30 percent in cash.

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10 Etiquette Rules You’re Probably Breaking

You leave your elbows off the dinner table and understand the importance of a nice, firm handshake. Congrats! You’re a generally well-mannered person. But do you know which hand you should wave with? Or which seat to offer your boss in the back of a town car? There are tons of little-known etiquette rules that most people break every single day.

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An interview with a Google Street View driver

How did you get into working as a Street View Driver?

It was through a temp job agency. I was looking for a job after I moved to NYC and went through Craigslist. Found the offer for a driving position, nothing related to the actual job or Google or anything. Once I was approved by the agency, I was contacted by the Streetview team explaining what the job actually entailed. This way they didn’t have a ton of people applying knowing what the job was.

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