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...Since his 2005 hit The 40 Year-Old Virgin, when Apatow became a brand name, almost a genre, in roughhouse comedy, the films he's produced have opened well and, more important, had staying power - what the industry calls "long legs." The final theatrical earnings for Virgin and Knocked Up (which he wrote and directed as well as produced) were about five times their opening-weekend gross; Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express made about four times their openers. People saw these movies, told their friends they were funny and made them hits. The new movie will be hard...
...touchscreen or a swish keyboard, but with access to Ovi Mail, Nokia's free e-mail service, it's designed to give thousands of consumers in emerging markets their "first Internet experience," says Credit Suisse's Garcha. Ovi Mail was conceived specifically for consumers with limited PC access, and almost all the 350,000 accounts registered since the service's launch last December have been created on Nokia phones, not on computers. To the company, that bodes well for the future. "We believe giving [consumers] this first digital identity will be a way of getting [them] later on into...
...alone. While regular beer sales are slumping in Western Europe - down almost 2% between 2003 and 2008 - nonalcoholic beer is quickly gaining popularity. According to research firm Euromonitor International, Europeans drank more than 138 million gallons (525 million liters) of the stuff in 2008. That's just a drop in Europe's 15 billion-gallon (56 billion liter) beer market, but it's growing fast. In the five years to 2008, sales in Europe climbed 50%, and are now worth $2.5 billion a year. And it's not just Europeans who are guzzling nonalcoholic beer - defined as containing less than...
Although the program started almost a month ago, the SBA says it has yet to make any actual loans. "We're still somewhat in a ramp-up period," SBA press secretary Hayley Matz said last week, adding that the agency is still working with lenders to get the program rolling...
Despite Thursday's ostensibly being a day of mourning, the mood on the streets was almost jubilant. A 2-year-old flashed the peace sign from a car on the jammed Haqqani Expressway. Groups of women waved green banners above their heads near Vanak Square. Protesters near Motahari Street, once they realized that nearby riot forces had been recalled to the massive Imam Khomeini Mosalla (mosque) prayer complex, burned tires and chanted all sorts of seditious phrases, including "Die Mojtaba" (a reference to the second son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, thought by many to be groomed as his successor...