NBC Bay Area Glitch leaves nearly 40000 Californians without food stampsSan Jose Mercury NewsSANTA ANA — A computer glitch that inadvertently cancelled food stamp cards has left tens of thousands of Californians unable to use them to buy food. The Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/Vzw61H ) says Electronic Benefit Cards for …
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Former PayPal, eBay hacks strap a rocket onto MongoDBRegisterIf ObjectRocket told you all of the secrets behind its bespoke cloud for running the MongoDB data store super-fast, then it would have two choices: It would either have to kill you or hire you and make you keep the secret. Alternatively, …
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In October 2012, 184,954 recipients were removed from the food stamps program after August and September's addition of over 874,000. More: continued here
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ChannelAdvisor said on Tuesday that client sales growth on Amazon.com Inc's and eBay Inc's online marketplaces slowed in December. ChannelAdvisor reported that client sales on Amazon.com grew 29.8 percent … More: continued here
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Read More »Missouri Woman Sues Ebay For Deaf Discrimation
NEVADA, MO (WDAF) – Forty-seven-year old Melissa Earll owns dozens of old mint condition comic books, hundreds of rare baseball… More: continued here
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