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Stokes, 57, to chairman of its international division may be a sign that a more battle-hardened executive is being positioned to take over when Busch III leaves.
FORBES: Are Dynasties Dying?
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Facebook's work on a hashtag is a sign of the heightening battle between Facebook and Twitter, as both compete for mobile users and fight for advertising dollars.
WSJ: Facebook Working on Incorporating the Hashtag
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The working stiffs and the old Dutch families had joined with the lawyers and doctors to battle a common nemesis whose garish sign would savage property values.
NEWYORKER: Deniers
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As July wore on, the daily procession of ambulances dwindled to one or two every few hours, then ceased altogether a sign that the Okinawa battle was now history.
NEWYORKER: Rat Beach
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If Netflix simply started offering by-mail rentals of games, that probably would have been something for Gamefly to really fear, but the split of the company between streaming and by-mail makes it a lot less formidable, as now customers have to use a new, separate service for mail rentals, and hell, they might as well sign up for the battle-tested Gamefly at that point, right?
FORBES: Gamefly Not Afraid of Netflix's New Video Game Venture, Qwikster
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Financial markets shared Wall Street's relief that Brazil was not digging in for a protracted battle over its currency, and there was no sign of a speculative attack against the Hong Kong dollar.
ECONOMIST: Tempest-tossed but floating
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Persona faces an uphill battle in getting web developer adoption when the establishment sign-in services are open to hundreds of millions of internet citizens, but it does have The Times' online crossword section, OpenPhoto and Voost as early poster children -- and anything that lets the privacy-minded join the party has our vote.
ENGADGET: Mozilla Persona sign-in launches in beta, skips the social networking ball and chain (video)
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More generally, the battle over cloned apps, especially cloned game apps, shows no sign of letting up.
FORBES: Recent Ruling in Triple Town/Yeti Town Game App Dispute Provides Cautionary Lessons for Both EA and Zynga
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The net neutrality battle has overwhelmed the agency since Chairman Genachowski first took office, and there was no sign of a resolution that would make any of the increasingly noisy rabble-rousers on either side happy.
FORBES: Deep in the Net Neutrality Trenches