The weaker-than-expected housing data helped push some investors towards the relative safety of Treasury bond.

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The service first offered broadband data capabilities, familiar push-to-talk features, rugged and reliable handsets, and a broadening push-to-talk coverage map.

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In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 was mostly flat, as slightly weaker-than-expected retail sales data prompted a pause from its recent push to five-year highs.

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The service can be employed across Android and iOS, implementing cloud data storage, leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer functionality, push notifications, and in-app purchases -- essentially exactly what OpenFeint once aimed to provide.

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The first, the increased push for drug safety, calls for an ever-increasing mountain of data before a new medicine is approved.

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Still, the greenback got a push higher against the yen in early Asian trading as data showed Japanese investors reversed a two-month selling trend by becoming net buyers of foreign bonds in the past two weeks through to May 4, according to the Ministry of Finance.

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As big data continues to push and stretch the limits of conventional technologies, Hadoop emerges as an innovative, transformative, cost-effective solution.

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