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Farrah Abraham slams Celebrity Big Brother; threatens to kill her co-celebrity housemates

Farrah Abraham gained a lot of attention regarding her raved inside the Celebrity Big Brother house that caused her to threaten the lives of her housemates. In lieu, Farrah Abraham put more fuel to the fire as she digress her angst about opinions being thrown at her.


iOS, Android users cheer for Adblock Plus launch; Online advertisers may not be too happy

Adblock Plus for iOS and Android has been released. While this may make users happy, online advertisers may see it as a threat to their business.

OnePlus One Gets Stable Cyanogen OS 12.1, Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Update

Cyanogen OS 12.1 update now available in OnePlus One devices. It repairs almost all issues from previous build and comes with additional security fixes and performance improvements.

New Nokia C1 leaked photos show first Android-equipped phablets; Is it time to re-enter phone market, build own OS?

The Android-powered Nokia C1 phablet is Nokia's first attempt in re-entering the phone market as leaked images of the device surface. Nokia is rumored to work with Foxconn for the C1 and even plans to build a new OS soon.


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After the announcement of the fifth sequel, Lucasfilm has gone silent for a few months about it. Thus, the emergence of a lot of rumors and false speculations.
The Wild Stock Market has scared many investors, but more millennials are investing in stocks despite volatility. According to CNN Money, stock trading app Robinhood, which is popular among millennials, reported that the number of new accounts in their site doubled on August 24 when the stock market fell over 1,000 points at the open. On that Monday, 65% of US customers bought stocks, rather than sell. As the market sell off continued the following day, Robinhood users bought more stocks.
IRS declined to bless Yahoo's planned tax-free Alibaba spin-off, sending its shares down about 4%. According to Business Insider, Yahoo owns 384 million shares of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, which is worth $23 billion. Yahoo plans to turn that into a separate company with its small-business unit in a tax-free transaction that allows it to give much of the value back to Yahoo shareholders. However, IRS declined to grant Yahoo's request. It doesn't mean the IRS rejected Yahoo's plan directly. IRS is simply telling Yahoo it can't be too confident about the approval of the deal.
Three PC makers, Lenovo, HP and Dell will consolidate in the PC market, says Michael Dell on a press briefing in Bengaluru, India Michael Dell, Dell Inc. CEO, told Reuters he predicts there would be consolidation among three PC makers in the market. These are Dell, HP and Lenovo. These three PC manufacturing companies will take over 80% of the market in a few years.
Borderlands movie adaptation had just been announced but several issues have already surfaced. Questions on originality, storyline and execution plague the beginning of this production.
Doctors, hospitals and healthcare groups criticized the proposed merger of four major insurances, saying that it could lead to harm for the healthcare industry.
More and more U.S. workers don't want to work for the "Man" anymore and be tied up to just one boss as they consider themselves "free agents." In a report by CNN Money, 31% of workers in the US consider themselves "free agents," according to a survey from Kelly Services, a recruiting and employment firm. These "free agents" consider themselves contractors, small business owners, temps, freelancers, and moonlighters, but never "traditional employees." This means, they don't get their income from just one boss. Most of these free agents said they entered their type of work willingly, and only 10% said they were forced into it due to economic conditions.
Revised data released Tuesday shows that Japan's economy contracted at a minus 1.2 percent annual rate during the second quarter. In a report from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, economists are rather impressed with the figure reported since it is better than what was expected. A preliminary report last month showed that Japan's economy contracted at a minus 1.6 percent annual rate.
Recently, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was rumored to reshot a scene in Skellig Michael. But, Lucasfilm immediately clarified the issues.
The growth rate of China's economy for 2014 has revised marginally lower to 7.3 percent from previous forecast of 7.4 percent. The drop in services sector weighed more on gross domestic product (GDP). According to the latest data from National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the GDP stood at 63.6 trillion Yuan ($10 trillion) in 2013 and this was 32.4 percent lower than earlier projection. The latest data casts shadow over the Chinese government's target of seven percent for 2015.