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New Yorks Retail Rents the Second Most Expensive in the World, Study Says
2013-08-22 17:05:00| National Real Estate Investor
Hong Kong is holding on to its title as the worlds most expensive city for retail rents, according to the second quarter report from real estate services firm CBRE. CBRE estimates rents in the city average $4,328 per sq. ft. per year29.5 percent above runner-up, New York. read more
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2013-08-22 09:14:58| Railroads - Topix.net
At least two major U.S. freight railroads are seeking to install cameras in their locomotives to make sure crews are following rules and avoiding cell phone use.
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Leaked World Science Report Will Sound New Climate Alarm
2013-08-21 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of finalizing its next report, due to be released in four volumes between Fall 2013 and Spring 2014. These reports, which have come out even seven years over the past several decades, represent the combined consensus views of thousands of climate scientists. Following the Copenhagen Climate Change talks in Dec. 2009, the United Nations Office in the Russian Federation, together with the Young Peacekeepers...
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Facebook creates Internet.org alliance to reduce cost of mobile data, connect the developing world to the internet
2013-08-21 15:48:38| Extremetech
In one of the most admirable but least altruistic moves ever, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is heading up Internet.org, a new global partnership that aims to bring down the cost of mobile internet access, and to connect the roughly four billion inhabitants of Earth who still don't have access to the internet. The primary goal, of course, is to ensure a steady stream of new customers -- and thus an increases in stock market valuation -- for the members of the Internet.org alliance, which includes Qualcomm, Samsung, and Nokia, among others.
Once upon a time, the world was sweet on Philly's sugar industry
2013-08-21 08:58:43| Sugar Industry News
To pedestrians and motorists crossing the Ben Franklin Bridge, the sign is unmistakable: "WILBUR'S" painted in ghostly letters on a huge brick wall on the north side of the bridgejust a fading whisper of its former tenant.
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