Also floating around was the old news that the investment firm Tiger Direct had taken a 9.9% stake in Groupon.
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An unwieldy, arthritic and entirely unlikely hummingbird, I have been hovering on the cusp - on the luscious cusp, that is, of leaving the old news system and joining the new.
With all the aggravation and worldwide attention that the hacking scandal has attracted, News Corp. eventually shuttered the 168-year old News of the World, whose illicit activities led to the arrest of several News Corp. executives and resulted in parliamentary hearings in London and investigations of the scope of the scandal.
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Computerized trading on the news is old news, but trading on Twitter comments or analyzing sentiment on blogs is a new challenge.
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The reopening of the probe set off a chain of events that ultimately led News Corp. to close the 168-year-old News of the World.
Sellars tells the story through texts ranging from those by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to the 20th-century radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day, from poetry by Louise Erdrich and Rosario Castellanos to excerpts from the Old and News Testaments.
The 168-year-old News of the World shut down on Sunday after numerous accusations of phone hacking.
Some of it goes back to the old adage about news being the unexpected.
The falling price of silicon is old news, apparently the better-than-expected sales were new.
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The phone-hacking saga has brought the closure of the company's 168-year-old News of the World tabloid, three criminal investigations in Britain, the resignation of top executives and the July collapse of News Corp.
The Microsoft deal is old news (and we crafted a different deal anyway).
The decline trend is old news, and those declines have probably reached their peak.
Smart phone notifications tell us immediately if something happens, the morning paper is old news.
One parent of a child who had been blinded by neuroblastoma at 18 months old welcomed the news.
The digital revolution is old news now, yet only lately have most people begun to get a feel of its full implications.
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If the old saw "no news is good news" has any truth to it, then things must be going very well indeed in the Iraq war.
The flow of jobs to these states from heavily unionized ones is old news, but the NLRB is desperate to discredit this colossal example as a discrimination case.
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In an apartment on the edge of Moscow, 18-year-old Maxim sits watching the news on TV.
It is not the first time in recent years that the 86-year-old leader has been in the news because of his poor health.
The 10-year-old, Cresston, watched the news.
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All through the recent election campaign, the new media outsmarted the old media when it came to setting the news agenda.
Claire Enders of Enders Analysis notes that the people who most need information about local goings-on are the immobile old and the poor, for whom the news that a local clinic is about to close can be vital.
McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.
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The Romney campaign argues that the continuous news environment in the nation now means old rules may not apply.
High velocity market data is old news in capital markets the new news is the demand in for unstructured data.
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The other child involved in the altercation, 9-year-old Seth Acevedo, told the Daily News that Wilson had a history of attacking him.
The 64-year-old joined News Corp. six months ago to help Mr. Murdoch carve out a role in the education business.
The other big news out of Boston is the month old Legal Harborside.
If Team Romney were to do that, the media will declare it old news by Labor Day.
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