NEW YORK (AP) — The new TV season is under way, and in the first round, CBS has left its rivals in the dust.

For the week, CBS averaged 12 million viewers, more than 2 million viewers ahead of runner-up ABC, the Nielsen Co. said Tuesday.

Of course, the season premiere of “Two and a Half Men” didn’t hurt CBS’ cause. Nearly 29 million viewers tuned in to see Ashton Kutcher arrive as Charlie Sheen’s replacement on the veteran sitcom, which was easily the most-watched show of the week.

But CBS logged another 10 shows in the Top 20. These include the premiere of “2 Broke Girls,” the fortunate sitcom that followed the “Two and a Half Men” blockbuster. “

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The Block

Reality came to Reality TV in Australia last week, when 3 of the 4 properties in the much-hyped “Flip that House” program The Block failed to sell at their nationally televised auction. A 400 person live audience, watched by over 3 million TV viewers, couldn’t entice more than one person to part with money rather than eyeballs. As the SMH observed:

Whatever the lure of a celebrity house, the would-be buyers in Fitzroy Town Hall were just as jittery as the would-be buyers at any other auction in recent weeks. (“Auc

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Since last 10 years, Gold has been hitting new levels. The pace accelerated after S&P downgraded US credit rating a few days ago. The credit rating of US has been downgraded from AAA to AA+. This is still good but then we are talking about United States and the almighty dollar. The consequences of this unprecedented move is not yet clear in the long term but the short term impact seems to bring enough indication about the bad consequences in the long run.

The rise and rise of Gold

The downgrades by S&P which makes investment in US treasury more risky, inflation in India, general slowdown in economy, and the weakening dollar have made Gold prices soar.

Slow recovery in US is also adding to the rise of Gold prices because the dollar is not finding favour with investors.

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Social networking for business, especially on the internet offers some outrageous benefits when done correctly. For starters online social networking is convenient, fun and allows you to cover a lot of ground from right there in front of your computer! The advantages you stand to gain however go much deeper towards helping you build your business and at an accelerated rate! In fact there may be no easier or more enjoyable way to increase your online presence than by ‘socializing’ with others on the internet!

Here is a look at 5 very significant ways you can build your business by socializing at these networking sites.

Builds Brand Awareness

Online social networking is the perfect platform for developing and/or reinforcing a brand or image and can be done so quite easily! Creating a profile at the site that is consistent with what it is you are trying to establish image-wise is an important first step.

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Many people in the SEO/SEM community are talking about the recent article in the New York Times titled: “The Dirty Little Secrets of Search”.

A quick synopsis of the article is that J.C. Penney hired an SEO company to help it rank as high as possible. The SEO company (unknown to J.C. Penney according to the company) implemented a wide range of black hat techniques including placing possibly tens of thousands of backlinks all across the internet in an attempt to game Google’s algorithm. However, after Google finding out that J.C. Penney was ranking so high for so many top keywords, Google has been forced to reprimand J.C. Penney releasing a statement against the company and ensuring that none of the black hat SEO tricks influence the results. Since the discovery, J.C. Penney has dropped precipitously in the rankings for many of its keywords and effectively disappeared for many others.

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The printer is an office staple which allows you to be able to print out everything from regular documents to the kinds of documents which will help to create graphics and more. Printing from these pieces of equipment has always meant that you had to have a wire connected to a computer. The problem is that so often there are wires going from ten or more devices which have to be connected via a wire to the printer. Not too long ago the innovation was made available which allowed for computers to connect wirelessly to the printers. That technology has been taken even a step further by Hewlett-Packard with the introduction of printers that allow you to print directly from your phone, iPad, tablet or other portable devices.

The great thing about the technology being made available by HP is it embraces the kind of technology being found more often in the workplace.

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