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First BioShock Infinite DLC Out Today, Second DLC Will Return To Rapture

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By Paul Tassi, Contributor

Big news out of still-possible-GOTY-contender BioShock Infinite today, as Ken Levine announced two separate pieces of downloadable content for the game.  The first is out today, and called Clash in the Clouds. It’s a difficult, battle arena-style event modeled after the games tough 1999 mode. Players will complete challenges by killing enemies under certain conditions, and use the cash they win to unlock bonuses like audio files or concept art. Levine explains (via Polygon): …read more

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Is the Bank of Japan Really Easing — or Does It Just Want to Depreciate the Yen?

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By Eamonn Fingleton, Contributor

Big news! The Bank of Japan is set to double Japan’s money supply – or at least that is what Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda is currently saying. I have to enter this caveat because as a veteran of 27 years of Japan watching from a base in Tokyo, I have long since become rather skeptical of statements from the Bank of Japan and other key Japanese government agencies. Allegedly momentous developments come with increasing regularity and then seem to be reversed within months, if not weeks. …read more

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Infrastructure Gap? Look at the Facts. We Spend More Than Europe

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By Paul Roderick Gregory, Contributor Big government advocates seek to substitute “infrastructure” for the “s” (stimulus) word. President Obama’s State of the Union address called for $40 billion to fix the nation’s roads and bridges and also called for a federal infrastructure bank.  On April 29, he called for an additional $4 billion of infrastructure spending. $40 billion here and $4 billion there, and soon you have some real money. …read more
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Spooked by LinkedIn? This Guy Hails Goal-Scoring Machine

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By George Anders, Contributor

Big companies are both charmed and spooked by LinkedIn’s power. They gleefully comb through the site  looking for competitors’ top talent,  while hoping that poachers won’t find and woo their own stars. So employees don’t get much coaching from their bosses — and may face actual discouragement — in terms of building up their own LinkedIn profiles. …read more
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Top 10 Most Funded Big Data Startups

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By Gil Press, Contributor

Big data is attracting a lot of venture capital. Of the many startups claiming big data as their business, who has received the most funding so far? CrunchAnalytics (which I wrote about here) provides an answer based on data from CrunchBase, showing us where VCs are placing their biggest bets: …read more
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The Utilization Gap: Big Data's Biggest Challenge

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By Christine Moorman, Contributor Big data’s the buzz.  It’s in the press, all over the web… heck, it even has its own hashtag—#bigdata. CMOs recently reported that the percent of their companies’ marketing budgets devoted to big data will increase from 6% to 10% over the next three years.  Multiply this 66% increase across all of the other areas Big Data is showing up in companies (e.g., supply chain management) and you have a sizable strategic expenditure.  The bigger the company, the larger this increase.  In data collected from The CMO Survey, companies with sales revenue of $10B or more will spend 13.7% of marketing budgets on marketing analytics in three years while companies with sales revenue of $25M or less will spend 9.2%. …read more
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PCAOB Criticizes Quality At PwC; Nothing Happens

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By Francine McKenna, Contributor Big news last week in the breathless world of audits and auditors. The audit regulator, the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board – even the word “oversight” should get you excited – published its private criticisms of PricewaterhouseCoopers poor quality audit work for not one but two audit years, 2007 and 2008.  If those years sound familiar, they should be. …read more
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Why Walmart is Betting Big on Small Stores

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By Lydia Dishman, Contributor

Big box is so last decade. That’s why Walmart is upping the ante on its expansion efforts with smaller stores. According to Bill Simon, head of Walmart’s U.S. division who spoke on an industry conference call yesterday, “They compete really well against multiple channels,” including competitors such as Dollar General, Walgreens and supermarkets. …read more
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Big Data Star Wars: The CMO/CIO Wars Continue

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By Gil Press, Contributor Big data is a big wave flooding all corners of the enterprise and it may sweep with it the IT organization. In many companies, marketing departments are leading the rush to adopt big data technologies, eager to uncover new insights about customers and prospects in the mountains of web-related and other data they have accumulated. Last year, Gartner made waves when it predicted that by 2017, the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO. “Some forecasts say the CMO will soon be calling the shots for IT,” Bob Evans responded, arguing that “while I don’t buy into that, I do agree that CIOs who choose to sit back and wait for ‘the business’ to tell them what to do will end up reporting to the CMO within a year or two.”
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The Key to Becoming a Ninja Innovator

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By Gary Shapiro, Contributor Big technology names like Dish, Qualcomm, Samsung and Verizon may have dominated the buzz at the 2013 International CES® last week, but it was the thousands of smaller exhibitors, from brand-new startups to struggling enterprises, that prove America is the land of opportunity. Spread across a record 1.92 million square […]
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Off-Label Pharma Prosecutions Won't Be Silenced By First Amendment Decision

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By Erika Kelton, Contributor Big pharma — which has paid billions of dollars to settle civil and criminal charges for “off-label” marketing of prescription drugs — welcomed a U.S. Court of Appeals decision last month that some have interpreted as a shield from liability for off-label promotional activities. But it’s not. And it shouldn’t slow […]
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