It took eight years but it looks like Time Warner is finally undoing the epic mistake that was AOL-Time Warner, and spinning off AOL into an independent company that can fail on its own. Let us hearken back to a darker time, a time when there was no easy way to access the wild, untamed [...]

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Toy emporium FAO Schwarz is known to most of America as “that place Tom Hanks played that floor piano in that movie one time” as opposed to, say, a place they actually frequent and encourage with their shopping dollars. Naturally, this can prove problematic for any store not trying to work off of the “Sharper [...]

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The Pequot Indians are a tribe that inhabited the Connecticut area. They were mostly rendered nonexistent by war and fire. Pequot Capital was a hedge fund that inhabited the Connecticut area. It is now mostly rendered nonexistent after various scandals involving insider trading in Microsoft (an investigation that was closed, then reopened), deal tipoffs from [...]

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