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Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world (as of 2012), due to its array of desktop, laptop, and mobile products. Its 2007 introduction of the iPhone sparked a global boom in smartphones; its 2010 introduction of the iPad led to a revolution in the once-stagnant tablet space. Its iPhone design defined smartphone…

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The Las Vegas Sun is a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas. The paper has been owned and operated by the Greenspun family since its founding in 1950. Since 2005 the Sun has been published under a Joint Operating Agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, with the Sun running…

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Bloomberg is a financial news and data company founded in 1981 and primarily owned by billionaire and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. The vast majority of Bloomberg’s $8.3 billion in 2013 revenue — 82 percent, as of 2012 — are tied to its $20,000-per-year financial data terminals used by 318,000 subscribers as of 2014, but the company’s…

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FactCheck.org is a non-partisan, nonprofit website devoted to fact-checking claims made in the U.S. media. Most of FactCheck.org’s content consists of rebuttals to what it considers inaccurate, misleading, or false claims made by and politicians. The site has also made a point of checking and correcting misleading claims made by various partisan groups. It describes…

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Forbes is an American business magazine largely owned by the Hong Kong investment firm Integrated Whale Media Investments. Prior to its sale in 2014, it had been run by the Forbes family since its founding in 1917. Forbes has been known as a financially conservative, pro-business publication geared toward higher-end business professionals. The magazine is…

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