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Sneak Peek: Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa, Mallorca

Jumeirah Group’s first European resort, Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa, opened on the island of Mallorca, off the coast of Spain, just in time for the summer season. The hotel features 120 rooms and suites, two restaurants, four bars, two swimming pools, and three terraces overlooking the coastline, in ...

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Lessons From The Founding Fathers On Leading A Breakthrough Meeting

Here's how George Washington created consensus among a group of strong-willed men representing states at the most important meeting of all time: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 What can you learn about leading a meeting from our founding fathers?

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Airbnb Responds To Tenant-Landlord Restraining Order, Battle Over $20,000 Apartment Listing

Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them. Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb --that is, before his landlord hit him with a restraining order.

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French Oil Co. Starts Injecting Mud to Kill North Sea Gas Leak

LONDON (Reuters) - France's Total started pumping heavy mud down its leaking well in the North Sea on Tuesday to try to stop an escape of gas that has lasted nearly eight weeks and could deprive Britain of nearly 6 percent of its supply this summer. "The well intervention operation got underway at 4.20 a.m. [More]

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Meet the Facebook Mafia

The upcoming Facebook IPO will make this group worth billions. How many Silicon Valley start-ups will they create?

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Predicting Summer Box Office Hits With Social Media And People, Algorithms Be Damned

Could Twitter have foreseen the tsunami that was the Avengers opening weekend? Fizziology uses social media to make predictions about box office success--and is doing as well or better as traditional industry predictions. With summer movie blockbuster season upon us, it’s time for a favorite seasonal pastime: box office revenue predictions.

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Jerky Week, Part 1: How SlantShack Scales Artisanal Jerky

For the first installment of an important Fast Company investigation into the business of jerky, we talk with David Koretz of New York-based SlantShack. Watch him try to sell us a $12,000 beef jerky eye patch.

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When DIY is Just Wrong

When cash is tight, our tendency is to try to do everything ourselves. Even when we have no idea what we're doing

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50 Cent Remixes Beats By Dre With SMS Headphones

Emerging headphones purveyor 50 Cent studied a predecessor closely before pressing play on his own venture. When Beats by Dre headphones debuted in 2008, the size of the $100-plus headphone market was a faint $92 million. Four years later, the good doctor's b-emblazoned earpieces have achieved near ubiquity, and the $100-plus segment has been cranked up to $512 million.

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Japan’s Tepco Shuts Its Last Reactor, Power Risks Loom

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima power plant, shut its last operating nuclear reactor on Monday for regular maintenance, leaving just one running reactor supplying Japan's creaking power sector. Japan has 54 reactors, but since the tsunami last March triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years at the Fukushima plant, it has been unable to restart any reactors that have undergone maintenance due to public safety concerns. Tepco said it shutdown the No.6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant, the world's biggest nuclear power plant, raising concerns about a power crunch this summer when electricity demand peaks due to hot weather.

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