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Nintendo Wii Sells Through 800 Thousand Wii Game Systems During Thanksgiving Week.

Chief executive officer of Nintendo Corp. said in an interview that amid the global economic slump and rather slowly growing U.S. market of consumer electronics, Nintendo Wii and DS video game consoles managed to demonstrate exceptionally strong market performance. Apparently, Nintendo’s partners sold about 800 thousand Wiis to end-users during Thanksgiving week.

Death by a thousand price cuts

It's the worst-case scenario for home sellers: To endure price cut after price cut until their houses become stigmatized and hungry buyers smell blood. But how can you avoid this unpleasant scenario in today's troubled housing markets? The answer, experts suggest, is to put your home on the market at the right price, and if it doesn't sell quickly, cut the price deep and fast, so you won't be caught in a downward spiral of price reductions.

Fair Trade Retailer Ten Thousand Villages Ramps Up for Holidays Using Shiftboard's Online Scheduling Software

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Sanyo to cut a thousand workers

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Yahoo Laying Off More Than a Thousand Employees this Year

This is about the reduction of employees of Yahoo as the company struggles with the continuing economic downturn in the USA and elsewhere in the world.

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SANTA FE has an international art scene, year-round celebrities and hotel rooms that go for up to $450 a night, so "affordable" may not be the first word that comes to mind in describing it. But with some creative choices and a willingness to stray from the plaza of postcard fame, it can be surprisingly easy on a budget. A couple on a three-day weekend can stay at immaculate adobe-style hotels, browse at world-class art galleries, tour historic churches, eat flavorful Southwestern cuisine, hike, ski and even soak in a private Japanese hot tub — all for under $500.

Amgen to Present at the 27th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) will present at the 27th Annual JP Morgan Global Healthcare Conference at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, Calif. Amgen Chairman and CEO Kevin Sharer will present at the conference. Live audio of the presentation will be available over the Internet and can be accessed from Amgen's Web site, www.amgen.com, under Investors.

Entertainment/Arts:Franz, Kooks at R&V

Twenty thousand people are expected in Gisborne for one of the hottest New Year festivals in the country. This year's Rhythm and Vines at the Waiohika Estate features major international bands including Franz Ferdinand and The Kooks from the UK, and American artist Santogold, as well as New Zealand acts.

Walker Evans Exhibited At Metropolitan Museum

Nine thousand picture postcards amassed by American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975) are among the fascinating works in The Walker Evans Archive, acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994.

Art Of Second Millennium B.C. Explored At Metropolitan Museum

Four thousand years ago, trade by sea and land linked distant civilizations to one another to an astonishing degree. From Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in the south to Thrace, Anatolia, and the Caucasus in the north and from regions as far west as mainland Greece all the way east to Iran, the great royal houses forged intense international relationships through the exchange of traded raw materials and goods as well as letters and diplomatic gifts.

Strike adds to unrest in Greece

Several thousand people have marched through the Greek capital Athens to protest at the government's economic policies, as part of a general strike.

Mammoth gets new vibe at museum

Eleven thousand years later, his skeleton was found in a peat bog in Illinois in 1931. In the late 1970s, Royal B.C. Museum staff travelled to the University of Nebraska to check out the woolly mammoth skeleton. They were looking for ideas for an impressive entrance exhibit for the new natural history gallery of museum.

$100,000 income: No big deal anymore

One hundred thousand dollars. Since the 1980s, the magical "six-figure" salary has been a benchmark for financial success. Not too long ago, that income often meant two nice cars in the garage of a large house, fun family vacations and plenty of money left over to save for retirement and college tuition.

Research team finds undersea earthquake 'mountains'

Undersea mountains several thousand meters high have been discovered subducted under a tectonic plate that constitutes the sea bottom off the Boso Peninsula in the southeastern part of the Kanto region, according to a survey by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.

Host-based intrusion prevention evolves to address server, desktop security

Patty Long has a thousand reasons to deploy host-based intrusion prevention: 1,000 DMZ servers, database servers and application servers.

How to create a Flickr photostream

A picture may tell a thousand words, but all too often it's not that flattering a story. As many of us have learned to our cost, having the whole world see what we've been up to, courtesy of tags added by well-meaning friends, is not always cause for celebration.

How to create a Flickr photostream

A picture may tell a thousand words, but all too often it's not that flattering a story. As many of us have learned to our cost, having the whole world see what we've been up to, courtesy of tags added by well-meaning friends, is not always cause for celebration.

Amazon.com lets iPhone users search its site by taking a picture

The old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” In the case of Amazon.com Inc.’s new mobile site search technology, a picture is worth a myriad of keywords.

iPhone Fart App Pulls in Nearly $10k a Day

Let me get this straight, these guys are making ten thousand dollars a day on fart applications for the iPhone? Holy crap!

Street brawl ends in damage at art gallery

A BRAWL in Lydiard St at the weekend caused up to several thousand dollars damage to the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

U.S. scientists modify gene to specifically target cancer cells

Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells.

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Marks & Spencer, HBOS, Apple,

Marks & Spencer will announce massive job losses tomorrow after dire Christmas trading - nearly a thousand posts will go in stores and several hundred more from head office and support functions. Debenhams and Next are also expected today to unveil their worst Christmas performances in recent history, writes the Times.

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