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New Orleans leads a cadre of smaller, cheaper metro areas that are pulling jobs away from the likes of New York and Los Angeles.

Less than three weeks from now, Barack Obama will have the opportunity to become a transformational president in foreign policy, as he surely is in domestic policy. I have no doubt that he plans to seize this opportunity.

It is a testament to how spoiled we have become by mainstream animated features that a film as visually arresting as Epic would be considered remotely run-of-the-mill. Chris Wedge’s well-paced adventure saga is filled with lush imagery and rich colors throughout, with the kind of animation that one has, fairly or not, come to expect from a big-budget animated vehicle.  It is well acted and often exciting, marred only by a painfully generic narrative and somewhat conventional character types.

David Williams at the Fishbowl Day of Service, 2012 Today, I would like to share the principles that have transformed me and our company and a growing number of people across the globe.  They are simple and powerful and I promise you that if you make the time to learn and

Mainly, it tells us that there’s not much of a market.

IBM’s question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now Watson has a new job–as a customer-service agent with the mostest. The help desk is a bit of a step down from fighting cancer, but IBM is nothing if not pragmatic. U.S. organizations spend $112 billion on call center labor and software, yet half of the 270 billion customer-service calls go unresolved each year, presenting a fairly sizable opening for an enhanced cognitive computer. Let’s face it: Rare is the occasion when you a) reach a live person and b) they know what they’re talking about. Why not give silicon a chance?

Tumblr Founder David Karp at Digital Life Design conference, Munich, Germany (Photo by Nadine Rupp/Getty Images) Few are arguing that the combination of Yahoo and Tumblr is not a good thing for users. Forbes contributors Steve Rosenbaum and Drew Hansen  have made good cases this week here and here to show

Location, location, location. According to global real estate consultancy, Knight Frank in London, these are the hottest locations to own a home on the planet. Just be extra careful of housing bubbles. Here’s a look at the cities and countries where housing prices have risen the most in 2012.

China’s property market cooled a bit in April, but home prices are still on the rise, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday.