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If you're a small company that investors usually overlook, a recent trend has been to pivot the company to focus on the blockchain. Companies that have done so tend to see their stocks skyrocket as soon as investors find out about the pivot, drawing comparisons to the dot-com bubble.

Each day this week a company's stock has skyrocketed because of some sort of blockchain pivot. On Thursday, there were two such companies. The World Poker Fund said it was acquiring a cryptocurrency wallet company... Читать дальше...

Paul Chryst of Wisconsin, who won the first semifinal last week, will compete against himself (and one other coach) in the final.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California faces potentially "dire" public health and financial consequences from new rules by the Trump administration allowing more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, became the second federal judge in the country to block the changes to President Barack Obama's health care law, saying the Trump administration failed to provide the required notice and public comment period before implementing them. Читать дальше...

CT Forecast for Saturday, December 23, 2017 _____ City/Town;Weather Condition;High Temp (F);Low Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%);Chance of Precip. (%);UV Index Bridgeport;Mostly cloudy;42;37;NNE;7;60%;83%;1 Chester;Snow and rain;38;35;SE;5;63%;90%;1 Danbury;Mostly cloudy;40;33;NE;5;69%;79%;1 Groton;Snow and rain;41;37;SSE;7;67%;92%;1 Hartford;Snow, ice late;33;30;NNE;5;70%;89%;1 Meriden;A little icy mix;34;32;NNE;4;70%;88%;1 New Haven;Mostly cloudy;41;38;NNE;6;67%;87%;1 Oxford;Snow... Читать дальше...

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Flag officer commanding the Western Naval command, Sylvanus Abbah, confirmed this in Lagos saying the four victims were abducted on board a fishing trawler.

A superhero in Biblical rags. A comedienne rubbing shoulders with Lenny Bruce in 1950s New York. Ben Feldman’s hair on Superstore. You didn’t have to search very hard to find Jews making a splash in television this year. Even Stranger Things got in on the action, introducing a pinch of Yiddishkeit into white bread Hawkins, Indiana. (Okay, they didn’t explicitly spell out that the ambiguous but the ultimately good-intentioned Dr. Owens was a card-carrying Member of the Tribe— why else would you... Читать дальше...

Now that Khloé Kardashian has finally announced to the world that she’s pregnant, she’s not shy to admit that she’s got babies on the brain.

Over the last decade or so, FICO’s market dominance has been challenged by a newcomer called VantageScore. What are the differences?

JOHANNESBURG – Cricket South Africa announced the South Africa Schools and Colts squads for 2017 in Johannesburg on Thursday evening.

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