America's Most Popular Holiday Destination Is ... ?

America's Most Popular Holiday Destination Is ... ?

By Darren Booth | CNBC
Fliers this year can expect to pay about 8 percent more for holiday airfares and 6 percent more for New Year's airfares to top destinations than in 2011, according to a study released by Orbitz Monday. But some locations saw prices for flights and hotels drop.

The Orbitz  Holiday Travel Insider Index analyzed hotel and flight booking data from its website to rank the most popular holidays destinations for 2012. The study provides the top 10 holiday destinations for Christmas and New Year's, evaluating the average airfare and daily hotel rates in each of the most popular
markets.

'sexy' Kim

China's People's Daily falls for 'sexy' Kim Jong-un spoof

RICK WALLACE, TOKYO CORRESPONDENT From: The Australian November 29, 2012

A SPOOF report declaring North Korea's portly young leader the "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2012 seems to have caught out China's main state-run newspaper.

The People's Daily Online reported, apparently in all seriousness, that The Onion had crowned Kim Jong-un, the rogue hermit state's playboy leader, this year's top international heart-throb.

'I'll keep that'

'I'll keep that': Prince William fuels Kate Middleton pregnancy rumours after accepting baby gift

28 Nov 2012
By Andy Rudd

Pilot Wills given baby romper suit with a picture of a helicopter and the words “Daddy’s little co-pilot” during Cambridge walkabout

Prince William has fuelled rumours that he and Kate Middleton are planning to have children soon after he accepted a baby present during a walkabout in Cambridge.

Facebook Makes It Official: An External Advertising Network Is Coming Soon

Facebook Makes It Official: An External Advertising Network Is Coming Soon

By Mathew Ingram on November 26, 2012

There’s been a lot of discussion over the past few days about the recent changes to Facebook’s (FB) privacy and governance policies—including the revelation that (gasp!) Facebook is not actually a democracy—but one element of the new rules has gotten less attention than it probably should: Namely, the giant social network is going to use the data it has about your likes and dislikes to show you ads outside of Facebook. This is the first real confirmation that the company is going to roll out an advertising network that extends beyond just its own walled garden, and it could turn out to be one of the biggest factors in the success or failure of Facebook’s revenue-growth strategy.

Home prices: Biggest rise in more than 2 years

Home prices: Biggest rise in more than 2 years

By Chris Isidore | CNNMoney.com
2012/11/27
In another sign of a housing market rebound, home prices posted the biggest percentage gain in more than two years in the third quarter, according to the closely followed S&P/Case-Shiller index.
The 3.6% increase from a year earlier is more than three times the rise in the previous quarter and was the biggest jump in prices since the second quarter of 2010. But that 2010 rise was much more of a temporary

Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller spoke truth to power, changed sports forever

By Thomas Boswell, Tuesday, November 27,2012

The most important man in sports in the past 40 years died at age 95 on Tuesday. Marvin Miller, whose union won free agency for baseball players in 1975 and thus eventually gained the same fundamental bargaining rights for all pro athletes, lived to see his vilified ideas utterly vindicated. What started as a cause became commonplace. What was once controversial became incontrovertible.

When I started on the baseball beat, there was no free agency, in baseball or any sport. It was a different world. One story from that time defines for me why everything Miller stood for was right — both then and in

$500 million

Record Powerball result of changes to boost sales

2012/11/27
By By DAVID PITT, Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The historic Powerball jackpot boosted to $500 million on Tuesday was all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this year to build jackpots faster, drive sales and generate more money for states that run the game.
Their plan appears to be working.
Powerball tickets doubled in price in January to $2, and while the number of tickets sold initially dropped, sales revenue has increased by about 35 percent over 2011.