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Why the software giant is now taking its collaboration with an Intel rival very seriously.

Microsoft signed a deal to license the ARM processor architecture last week. On the surface, it may look like business as usual--at least until you consider that Microsoft has had a relationship with ARM for more than a dozen years.

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Not enough.  Britain's monarch wouldn't qualify for our billionaires list even if we tracked royal fortunes.

Queen Elizabeth II may live in Buckingham Palace and enjoy one of the world's most stunning jewelry and art collections, but she falls far short of making the Forbes Billionaires list. Forbes pegs the world's best-known reigning monarch at a relative pauper's sum of $420 million.

How Much Is Queen Elizabeth Worth?

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Wal-Mart's Sam's Club chain of warehouses recently announced a new banking service for its customers. Well aware of the presently tight lending environment, its largely small-business clientele will be able to access $25,000 loans from a retail chain far removed from what most would term traditional banking.

Sam's Club Exposes The Bank Bailout Lie

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Watching a Major League Baseball game is a different experience from one stadium to the next. Sitting at the water's edge, you can see sailboats and kayaks darting about the bay like a slow-motion school of fish. A cool breeze flares up every few minutes, lest the warm air become stagnant. Seagulls crow in the distance. It's a dreamy beach vacation except for one detail: There's a Major League Baseball game taking place.

America's Best Baseball Stadiums

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They're not as positive as projected. Here's how to turn them around.

As Congress acts again to extend unemployment benefits  to the long-term jobless, it is time to take a careful look at employment and unemployment in America. Democrats are fully in the spin zone on jobs. Despite the spin, there are a number of secrets buried in the jobs numbers that Obama and Congressional Democrats don't want us to focus on as we enter the mid-term election season.

The Truth About June Employment Numbers

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Mobile devices maker is expected to report strong smartphone sales, particularly from partner Verizon Wireless.

Droid Phones Boosting Motorola

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Will the stars and bars win this time?

Nearly a century and half since the United States last divided, a new "irrepressible conflict" is brewing between the states. It revolves around the expansion of federal power at the expense of state and local prerogatives. It also reflects a growing economic divide, arguably more important than the much discussed ideological one, between very different regional economies.

A New War Between The States

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Thursday's report has the potential to lift shares above long-time resistance at $150.

First Solar  ( FSLR -  news  -  people ) is slated to report second quarter earnings on Thursday, July 29. Solar investors who have been burned before are hoping that the thin film semiconductor company reports performance that keeps the recent price momentum going. First Solar is up better than 30% since early June.

First Solar Shines Going Into Earnings

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It's not about finding the ''perfect'' job.

Here's a pop quiz for anyone who's miserable at work. Which action has the biggest chance of improving your happiness?
(A) Getting a promotion,
(B) seeing your professional nemesis move to the Mongolia office,
(C) focusing on the positive aspects of your job and trying to ignore the negative or
(D) quitting in a fit of anger and landing your dream job elsewhere?

10 Steps To Happiness At Work

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Their net worth is $45.7 billion.

Singapore's economic turnaround is gathering speed. The island-state, whose GDP shrank by 1.3% in 2009, is looking to surpass China to become Asia's fastest-growing economy. Its GDP, up 16% in the first quarter, is forecast to rise an impressive 13% to 15% this year.

Singapore's 40 Wealthiest