The directors were uncomfortable with giving up a part of the MGM Grand property, even if the company was still managing it, and sent Murren back to do more homework on real estate economics.

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Consider that many lead social users are knowledge experts or well connected, but not necessarily involved in the more mundane tasks of managing customer leads, even if they do talk to customers often.

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If managers are already being paid an advisory fee, why should they be permitted to dip into client funds to pay for research they use in connection with managing client portfolios even if the research may benefit clients?

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Q3 earnings of top companies, except for maybe Facebook, were a dismal lot and suggest that, even if if unemployment is improving, the next several months will be challenging, says Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners.

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"On the Web, you can create an ad even if you don't have a page post, so with mobile, marketers had to think about actively managing their pages, " said Gokul Rajaram, who manages Facebook's ads products.

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