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New Study Reveals Businesses Unknowingly Pass Up On Big IT Cost Savings

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Despite an overwhelming effort by businesses to reduce unnecessary IT costs, many organizations miss out on big IT cost savings each year by pre… Continue reading

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Managed Medicare Advantage Plans Demonstrate Better Outcomes for Patients / By Analyzing Insurance Claims From 3 Million U.S. Medicare Patients, The Boston Consulting Group Finds That Managed Private Plans Outperform Traditional Fee-for-Service…

BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 05/14/13 — As health systems around the world experiment with alternative models for care delivery and reimbursement to improve health care quality and lower cost, t… Continue reading

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New data show price differences for health procedures

New health care data show the wide cost differences for the same medical procedures Continue reading

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Unauthorised Apps ‘Costing Parents £30m’

Children buying unauthorised apps have cost parents around £30m, a study suggests. Continue reading

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Lil Kim Sued — Her Diva Antics Cost My Biz $15 MILLION!

Lil Kim’s been slapped with a not-so-lil lawsuit by her former biz manager … who claims her money-grubbing, diva-like behavior cost him MILLIONS in botched endorsement deals. Andrew Ro says his company, International Rock Star Corp, inked a… Continue reading

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Republicans pursue probe of Benghazi attacks, name witnesses for hearing

The chairman of a House investigative committee has named three witnesses who will appear at a May 8 hearing on the US response to the terrorist threat that cost four Americans their lives in Benghazi, Libya. Continue reading

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Westpac Pays Special Dividend, Profit Climbs

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Boehner-led cost-cutting saving millions in the House

A cost-cutting effort launched by Speaker John Boehner is on pace to save taxpayers more than $400M by the end of this year. Continue reading

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Listing of the week: Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.’s Dorland House

1370 Morada Pl., Altadena, Calif. For sale: $945,000While some sons avoid falling into their father’s careers, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. followed in his architect father’s footsteps, continuing and expanding on Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of organic and livable architecture.The “Dorland House” was designed by Wright, who went by Lloyd Wright, to be a “low-cost home of quality” for the Dorland family…. Continue reading

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Icahn refuses to drop proxy fight option: WSJ

(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is refusing to drop the option of a proxy fight to force Dell Inc to pay a big dividend, in spite of the board committee's request that he drop his threats and launch a formal bid for the company, the Wall Street Journal reported. Icahn had asked the board's special committee to be reimbursed for the cost of his due diligence on Dell, a benefit the committee has already granted to rival bidders Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP. Continue reading

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