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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

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The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. The VA is running its own long-term study with nearly half a million participants so far.).

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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7 Steps Online Companies Can Take to Manage Sales Tax Exposure

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If the auto dealer paid for traditional advertising in a newspaper it would not be taxable, but using a Web platform to make the same match between an auto dealer and an auto purchaser transforms this into a taxable service in the eyes of the New Jersey Division of Taxation.

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Bio Roundup: Pfizer’s Rare Results, U.K.’s CAR-T No, IPO Go-Go & More

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Before you head out for the final summer getaway, catch up on the week’s headlines. Pfizer upped the ante in the field of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) treatment, where competition to treat the rare disease has grown increasingly complex.

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