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Selling the L.A. Clippers: Shelly Sterling's Longshot Legal Strategy

Donald Sterling wants to run out the clock on the team's sale to Steve Ballmer. His wife wants the court's permission to go ahead.

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Categories: Business/Finance

Rupee flat, stuck in narrow range

The rupee is trading at 60.12/13, little changed versus its previous close of 60.10/11.

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Categories: Business/Finance

No proposal for merger of United Bank with IDBI Bank

State-owned IDBI Bank today said it is not considering any proposal to merge Kolkata-based United Bank of India with itself.

Fetched 1 minute ago from Business Standard: Finance (India)
Categories: Business/Finance/Banking

Over Rs 3,350-cr worth NPAs with Union Bank of India

Union Bank of India has Non- Performing Assets (NPAs) worth about Rs 3,350 crore from 20 defaulters.

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Categories: Business/Finance/Banking

Team planes for Stewart-Haas, JGR collide at North Carolina airport

No one was injured Sunday night when a Joe Gibbs Racing plane clipped a parked Stewart-Haas Racing plane while returning home from the Brickyard 400.

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Categories: Sport/Technical/Motor Racing

OkCupid reveals it's been lying to some of its users. Just to see what'll happen.

(theodevil / Flickr) It turns out that OkCupid has been performing some of the same psychological experiments on its users that landed Facebook in hot water recently. In a lengthy blog post, OkCupid cofounder Christian Rudder explains that OkCupid has on occasion played around with removing text from people's profiles, removing photos, and even telling some users they were an excellent match when in fact they were only a 30 percent match according to the company's systems. Just to see what would happen. OkCupid defends this behavior as something that any self-respecting Web site would do. "OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing. Neither does any other Web site," Rudder wrote. "But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work." Rudder's defense of A/B testing — not to mention his disclosure of the experiments themselves — are already creating a stir. OKCupid intentionally sent people on bad ...

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Stars and Bars on Cars

Texas is searching for a way to keep the Confederate flag off its license plates. Former Ole Miss chancellor Robert Khayat explains how his school solved the problem.

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