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The Lego Group’s venture into films demonstrates the company’s hope to expand its customer base as it faces increasing competition from other construction toy lines, especially in the digital spaces.
The social network, which gets relatively modest traffic, has remained valuable to Google because of the broad view it can give advertisers of people’s activity and interests.
A prolonged bout of unusually tough seasonal weather is taking a toll on small businesses.
The proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable has raised concerns about the rising cost of cable service.
Mayor Bill de Blasio faces challenges in altering the balance of taxis, buses, trucks and cars amid the city’s deeply ingrained pedestrian culture.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 2014, covering February 15, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Lorde
Of Mice & Men
Beyonce
2014Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1924)[†]
Thelma Estrin was an American computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering. Estrin was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research. In 1954, Estrin helped to design the Weizmann Automatic Computer, or WEIZAC, the first computer in Israel and the Middle East, a moment marked as an IEEE Milestone in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was professor emerita in the Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
2014Christopher Malcolm, Scottish-Canadian actor, director, and producer (born 1946)[†]
Christopher Malcolm was a British born Canadian actor and theatrical producer. He first achieved notoriety for his role as Brad Majors in the original stage production of The Rocky Horror Show.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]