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Launched in March, Foursquare turns city maps into game boards. Members use text messages or applications for iPhones or Android phones to post when they are at a location like a bar or a restaurant. As incentive to share, your current location shows up on the Foursquare map to help you meet up with friends. Check in enough times from a coffee shop, for example, and you're dubbed its mayor. Give a shout-out from your gym 10 times in a month, and you might get a badge that dubs you a "Gym Rat." That gaming component...
...anymore. Earlier this week, aluminum giant Alcoa posted fourth-quarter results that fell short of Wall Street's expectations, triggering a sell-off in the company's shares. The company reported a loss of 28 cents a share, which was narrower than the $1.49-a-share loss a year earlier. However, it missed analysts' projections. Investors were particularly miffed at Alcoa's revenue number, which totaled $5.43 billion, down 4.6% from $5.69 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting revenue growth. Investors subsequently dumped shares, causing the stock to plunge 11%, its worst one-day drop since last March...
...catch is that each adjustment to the new, cheap world risks losing people who liked the old, expensive one. Broadcast TV once thrived by pitching a big tent. But now the various poles of that tent - Jay fans, Conan fans, etc. - don't particularly want to share the same campsite, and they no longer have to. (See the top 10 late-night jokes...
...Tran said members will also be hosting the "Harvard Open" tournament in April and a “big shindig” with the Brown Taekwondo Club soon after. Since its inception, the Harvard club has had close ties with the Brown club, and the two groups continue to share instructors and partake in an annual retreat together...
...manifested all too starkly on Sunday, plenty of T riders share this buried, but burning, desire to shed clothing in public. The Boston Society of Spontaneity, who organized the Boston part of the event, instructed partici"pants" to arrive at Alewife at noon, and to travel on the Red Line and pull off their pants in the process. The pantless mass traveled in groups, because, as one BSS Website sagely observed, “riding around town in your underwear by yourself (especially if you’re female) isn’t the safest thing...