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Post Article: Social Share (Simple) Social Follow Bar Follow Us! 🙂 Stay Connected with Us! Follow TechnoBuffalo Follow: Facebook Follow: Twitter Follow: Google Plus Post Article: Body Post Article: Content Two massive statistics from the Warcraft movie following a weekend of both highs and lows. First of all, the film is now the most successful video game…
START “MORE FROM” Custom END “MORE FROM” Custom Breakfast is often lauded as “the most important meal of the day.” What is less commonly mentioned is the origin of this ode to breakfast: a 1944 marketing campaign launched by General Foods, the manufacturer of Grape Nuts, to sell more cereal. During the campaign, which marketers…
Jun 13th 2016, 13:44 by C.S-W. FINDING a competitive edge is an obsession for those looking to take an MBA. Prospective students spend hours researching the minute details that will take their application from the middle of the pile to the top, and land them a place at a business school that promises plentiful rewards….
After four years of crammed open houses, heated competition and dizzying price gains that sent the median cost of a home to $1.2 million, San Francisco’s real estate market is starting to lose steam. The inventory of luxury homes is at a record high. A smaller share of deals have bidding wars. Rent growth for…
(Patrick Semansky/AP) The federal government provides more than $150 billion in grants, loans and work-study funding for college students, yet the number of high school students filing out financial aid applications to access that money is waning. A trove of data released this week by the Department of Education shows fewer high school seniors are turning in the Free…
The wiry, Russian-American Anton Yelchin, whose knack for playing relatably frazzled and anxious characters made him one of the most promising, subtle, and consistently interesting young film actors, has died in a freak accident at his home in the San Fernando Valley. According to TMZ, Yelchin was struck and pinned against a security gate by…
On a humid afternoon this past November, I pulled off Interstate 75 into a stretch of Florida pine forest tangled with runaway vines. My GPS was homing in on the house of a man I thought might hold the master key to one of the strangest scholarly mysteries in recent decades: a 1,300-year-old scrap of…
Something incredible is underway: Long-term interest rates are collapsing in a big way. German 10-year yields moved into negative territory this week for the first time ever. U.S. 10-year yields have dropped back to 2012 lows. According to Fitch, the volume of global government bonds trading with negative yield has crossed the $10 trillion mark…
Led Zeppelin’s attorneys on Friday brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the only similarity between Taurus and Stairway to Heaven was a “descending chromatic minor line progression”. Ferrara said that musical element was used 300 years ago, as well as in many pop songs since then. Related: Jimmy Page testifies Stairway to…
Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Florida Democrat running for Senate in the Sunshine State, is calling out Republican Sen. Marco RubioMarco RubioGrayson not scared of ‘attack puppy’ Rubio Florida Dem: Rubio ‘most homophobic senator’ in country Crist seeks donations after Jolly re-enters House race MORE for using the mass shooting in Orlando to reconsider his political…