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  American Idol

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  American Idol http://www.usatoday.com/money/graphics/Idol/flash.htm was created based on the British show Pop Idol, which was in turn inspired by Popstars, a show TV producer Nigel Lythgoe saw in Australia and brought over to Britain.[4] Using the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition, and adding other elements such as telephone voting by the viewing public, which at the time was already in use in shows such as the Eurovision Song Contest, Simon Fuller then created the show Pop Idol. The show debuted [...]

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  Facebook CEO unveils foundation, $100M donation

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  Zuckerberg makes friends with more than 40,000 students in Newark, N.J. Following a day of frenzied reports about an upcoming $100 million donation to a struggling school system, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the creation of a new foundation called Startup: Education. Zuckerberg is seeding the foundation with the “initial gift” of $100 million to the Newark, N.J. school system. Zuckerberg is scheduled to announce his donation later today on the Oprah Winfrey Show. And the Facebook founder isn’t alone in [...]

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  Pepsi One People Commercial 2010

  financial news, Ideas

  America can cast their votes at www.refresheverything.com for the refreshing consumer-generated ideas that they believe will make a positive impact on their communities. This is the first of eleven opportunities for the public to win grants from $5,000 up to $250,000 throughout the year. The first voting session ends on February 28 and the ideas that receive the top votes will be announced on Monday, March 1, 2010. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/pepsirefreshproject/41854/ The Pepsi [...]

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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs

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  October 21, 2010 – Palo Alto, Calif. – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) today announced the sFund, a new $250 million initiative to invest in entrepreneurs inventing social applications and services. Amazon.com, Facebook, and Zynga, the leading companies defining today’s social and online environment; entertainment and media leaders Comcast and Liberty Media and Allen & Company, LLC, have committed to invest in the sFund and serve as strategic partners. The sFund will provide financing, counsel, and relationship capital for [...]

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