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| Google Tweaks Rankings, Hurting Firms Wed, 16 May 2012 23:04:36 EDT Google changed its search algorithm last month, seeking to downplay sites it suspects of artificially boosting their rankings. Now some small businesses say they are scrambling to avoid being relegated to the Internet's junk bin. |
| Wal-Mart Struggles to Think Small Wed, 16 May 2012 21:57:23 EDT Wal-Mart is slowly rolling out small-format stores in the U.S., giving Target and dollar-store rivals plenty of opportunity to develop their own offerings. |
| Dish Runs Ads to End All Ads Wed, 16 May 2012 23:52:02 EDT Dish Network is promoting its new "Auto Hop" ad-skipping DVR with a marketing campaign that, ironically, uses a TV commercial. Some networks are refusing to run the spot. |
| 'Dallas' Remake to Air on TNT Wed, 16 May 2012 19:24:06 EDT Turner Broadcasting told advertisers at the annual "upfront" presentation that it plans to add 14 new original shows to its TNT and TBS cable networks. They include a remake of "Dallas," with Larry Hagman reprising his role as J.R. Ewing. |
| Brooks Charged in Hacking Case Wed, 16 May 2012 05:58:30 EDT Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit, and five others were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice, the first criminal charges in a tabloid probe. |
| Disney Gets Boost From Cable Tue, 08 May 2012 21:26:03 EDT Walt Disney's fiscal second-quarter profit climbed 21%, thanks to strong performances at its theme parks and cable-TV channels. |
| ABC, Univision to Start News Channel Tue, 08 May 2012 06:09:32 EDT Disney's ABC News and Univision agreed to create a 24-hour cable news channel that will primarily target the growing population of Hispanics in the U.S. but broadcast in English. |
| Oprah Struggles to Build Her Network Mon, 07 May 2012 07:55:21 EDT After a slow start, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is showing positive signs, but some critics question whether it will ever turn the corner. |
| Glenn Beck Dashes Out Book Series Mon, 07 May 2012 18:28:41 EDT Two years ago, while on vacation, talk-show host Glenn Beck read all six books in Chris Stewart's series "The Great and Terrible." In its good-versus-evil story line he saw a metaphor for the current state of the world. |
| Disney Basks in 'Avengers' Mon, 07 May 2012 16:27:15 EDT The record-setting opening of "The Avengers" this weekend—with $207.4 million of tickets sold at the North American box office—validates Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment in 2009. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.