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After Tepid 2012, PC Sales May Rise Only 3.2% This Year: IDC :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After a mediocre year for PCs in 2012, prospects for 2013 are only slightly better, said influential market forecaster IDC. Shipments could rise about 3.2 percent to 384 million units, a far cry from earlier years with growth exceeding 10 percent or more.</p>
<p>The Framingham, Mass., research company suggested revenue for the microprocessors that run PCs from suppliers like Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), the No. 1 chipmaker, will rise only 1.6 percent this year, for a market value of only $40.7 billion.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/after-tepid-2012-pc-sales-may-rise-only-32-year-idc-1019484

Germany brings gold reserves home :: Germany's central bank will bring back some of the gold it currently holds overseas, so that half of its reserves will be in its vaults by 2020.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21040214#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Construction faces 'years of woe' :: The construction sector in the UK will not recover its pre-recession peak level of output until 2022, an industry study claims.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21039522#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Alibaba boss Jack Ma to step down :: One of China's best-known businessmen, Jack Ma, will quit as chief executive of Alibaba, the hugely successful e-commerce firm he founded.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21038126#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Goldman now will pay bonuses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/aits7H0N6qg/index.html

Why big data will be even bigger in 2013 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/HOt4MQx47js/story01.htm

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Survey: Which technologies will matter in 2013? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/kOkAcaYOzpA/story01.htm

Goldman will not delay bonuses :: Investment bank Goldman Sachs will not delay staff bonus payments to take advantage of a forthcoming fall in the top rate of income tax, the BBC understands.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21029444#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Hundreds more affected at Honda :: More than 300 temporary staff at Honda in Swindon will not have their contracts renewed on top of the 800 staff jobs being cut.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-21024847#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Paying by text to launch spring 2014 :: A database pairing phone numbers to bank accounts will launch in the UK in spring 2014, allowing people to text money to each other.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21032503#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

HMV boss says confident firm will survive :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/0tP2hLrNC3I/

Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow :: The office buildings of the future will be intelligent - and tasty too
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20965207#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Hobbits and hypotheses | Henry Gee :: All good tales should have a self-consistent back story. If they do, they are amenable to scientific investigation"Why?" If you have a toddler, this is a question that will assail your ears many, many times each day. Why is the sky blue? Why do people get old and die? Why am I here? To a person newly exposed to the world, everything is unfamiliar, and therefore deserving of explanation, even if the encrusted taboos of adulthood are broken in the asking. To a parent, who is old enough to have the luxury of taking everything for granted, it's infuriating. "Scientist" is a name we give to a person who has never really got beyond the toddler stage of inquiry. To a scientist, the world is still full of marvelous phenomena that demand explanation, and in which nothing should ever be taken for gr...
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Paper of the Month: U.S. Public Supports Policies to Improve Nutritional Impact of Federal Nutrition Assistance Program :: This month's paper is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled 'Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)'. The full paper is published on Cambridge Journals Online will be freely available for a limited time.
The U.S. Congress is currently debating substantial cuts to agriculture and food assistance programs included in the 2012 Farm Bill in order to reduce the country's budget deficit.  Due to the ongoing effects of the global recession, a record 46 million people, or one in seven Americans, receive benefits to purchase food every month from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps.  The $75 billion of annual federal spending on SNAP provides a both a cr...
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New Corvette to drive GM revival :: General Motors hopes the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will help improve the image of all its models.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21009682#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Longer Lives, Lower Incomes for Japanese Women :: When Hiroko Taguchi retired this past April, at the age of 64, from her job as an insurance sales agent, she joined the rapidly growing ranks of Japan's aging women who now outnumber their male counterparts.
Taguchi, a divorcee who lives alone, is heavily dependent on her pension to support what will likely be a lengthy retirement, given that women in Japan live, on average, about seven years longer than men. A survey conducted earlier this year by the Health and Welfare Ministry revealed that women account for 87.3 percent of Japan's record number of 50,000 centenarians.
"I am lucky I did not quit my job when I married, as was the norm for women of my age," Taguchi told IPS. Indeed, she is one of a very small number of women in Japan for whom old age is not synonymous with povert...
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A week Boeing will want to forget :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Uh33JUxT3Pg/index.html