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US stock index futures signal mixed open

PARIS | Thu Feb 7, 2013 9:55am GMT PARIS Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Thursday. Futures for the SP 500 were down 0.05 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.07 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.05 percent at 0933 GMT. * European shares…
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Google Joins JPMorgan in Seeking Software Patent Limits

Google Inc. owes its creation in part to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. The world’s largest search-engine company contends that too many other software patents hurt innovation more often than they lead to viable businesses. Google, along with JPMorgan…
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How Yelp Could Create More Accurate Reviews

Image via CrunchBase How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to aggregate reviews in a way that makes ratings more meaningful to consumers—and fairer to the businesses they review. Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School,…