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100LAP |
Another $100 Laptop |
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46.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will we see a fully capable, consumer-aimed laptop for $100 MSRP in 2009? |
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BLURAY |
Blu-Ray Meets Expectations |
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50.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will U.S. household adoption of Blu-ray players meet analysts’ 2008 estimates? |
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CELLBAN |
Cellphone Use in Cars |
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43.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will all 50 states ban unlimited cellphone use by motorists by the end of 2009? |
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IPHNPLRD |
iPhone Bluetooth Printer Hack |
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44.75 |
-0.50 |
-1.10 |
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The iPhone’s Bluetooth radio will be hacked by the end of July to allow connection to printers. |
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NETFLIXHD |
Netflix Goes High Def |
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41.25 |
-0.75 |
-1.79 |
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Will Netflix add HD content to its online video streaming service by August 1, 2008? |
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TOUCHDOWN |
Drop in iPod Touch Price |
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41.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Apple drop the price of the iPod Touch by Aug 1? |
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NETFLIX |
Netflix tops 10 million subscribers |
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68.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Netflix’s subscriber count reach 10 million by the end of 2008? |
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GROID |
Android Phone By Fall |
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46.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the first cellphone equipped with Google's new open-source operating system, Android, go on sale by summer's end? |
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DIAMON |
iPhone Killer Arrives |
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55.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the HTC Touch Diamond arrive in North America by September 31st? |
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TOPFLICKS |
iTunes Takes the Lead, Part Deux |
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43.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will iTunes become the number one movie retailer by Mar 1, 2009? |
| | List all 30 in Gear & Gadgets stocks |
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SYMBOL |
NAME |
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PRICE |
CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 10 of 20 |
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AIRGTL |
GTL Test Flight |
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57.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will another commercial airline perform test flights with gas-to-liquid (GTL) or other alternative fuels prior to August 31st, 2008? |
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XCOR |
Suborbital Success |
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46.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will space-tourism company XCOR fly its suborbital vehicle by March 1, 2010? |
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LONGLIFE |
Phoenix Lander Outlives 90 Days |
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91.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Phoenix lander last more than 90 days? |
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VRGNTST |
Test Flight by Summer |
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51.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Virgin Galactic’s carrier ship, White Knight Two, successfully complete a flight test by August 31, 2008? |
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HBLFIX |
Hubble Upgrade by Fall |
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34.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will NASA complete the Hubble upgrade this fall? |
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MARSLIFE |
Life on Mars |
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27.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Phoenix lander find verifiable signs of life on the surface of Mars by January 1, 2009? |
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RAILGUN |
Railgun in Field by 2009 |
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25.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the U.S. military deploy a railgun in the field by 2009? |
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NANTXT |
Germ-Proof Military Clothing by 2010? |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will military uniforms utilizing nanotextiles for protection against chemical and biological weapons be available by 2010? |
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EADSPLN |
EADS Constructs Spaceplane |
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37.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will EADS start construction on a tourist rocket by December 31, 2008?
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ERTHLK |
Water on Earth-like Planet by 2010 |
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60.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will scientists confirm the presence of water on an Earth-like extrasolar planet by January 1, 2010? |
| | List all 20 in Military, Aviation & Space stocks |
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NAME |
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PRICE |
CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 10 of 13 |
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REPLAY |
Baseball Instant Replays |
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39.25 |
-0.25 |
-0.63 |
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Will Major League Baseball introduce an instant-replay system by August 1? |
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FATCHANCE |
Japan Loses Weight |
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54.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Can Japan shrink its overweight population by 10 percent by 2012? |
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NOSEEUM |
Invisible Cloak |
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34.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will scientists develop a metamaterial that absorbs all incidental light in the visible regime? |
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GENEDOPE |
Olympic Gene Doping |
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52.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will an athlete competing in the Beijing Olympics be accused of gene doping? |
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HADRON |
Large Hadron Collider Functions |
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73.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the LHC be fully functional and producing data by October 31, 2008? |
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PLMISL |
Plum Island on Mainland |
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50.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the replacement for Plum Island be built on the U.S. mainland? |
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ARTLUNG |
Artificial-Lung Trials |
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57.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the first artificial lung enter clinical trials in 2008? |
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GENETHRPY |
Gene-Therapy Treatment for Diabetes |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will a gene-therapy treatment for diabetes be readily available within three years? |
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DBSDEP |
Deep-Brain Stim for Depression |
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52.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the FDA clear deep-brain stimulation as a treatment for clinical depression by September 30, 2008? |
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BOTS |
Androids Beat Humans in Soccer |
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47.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champs at a game of soccer by 2050? |
| | List all 13 in Extreme Science stocks |
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NAME |
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PRICE |
CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 10 of 24 |
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PRICEVSFEE |
NY Traffic Lessened |
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44.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will vehicle traffic in Manhattan be reduced by 10 percent or more? |
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EUBIOFUEL |
EU Lowers Biofuel Targets |
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53.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Caving to demand from environmentalists and member countries, will the EU lower their biofuel target by October 1, 2008? |
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5BUCKGAS |
Gasoline Breaks $5 a gallon in California |
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33.00 |
-1.25 |
-3.65 |
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Will the average gasoline price in California break $5 per gallon this summer? |
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CALWVR |
California Greenhouse Gas Waiver |
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58.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the EPA grant California a waiver to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks? |
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DRINKPEE |
Drinking Sewage |
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50.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Los Angeles start turning sewage into drinking water this year? |
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PENNYGONE |
Pennies Phased Out |
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25.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the U.S. Government phase out the penny by 2009 in order to conserve metal resources? |
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FAKEMEAT |
Successful Fake Meat |
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46.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will PETA award $1 million to a team that creates in-vitro meat by December 31, 2012? |
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FUTUREGEN |
FutureGen Rescued |
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49.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will FutureGen receive funding, either from government or private sources, to continue the project? |
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CALIFUEL |
California Emissions Goal |
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49.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will California stick to its revised requirement (reduced by 70 percent from its 2003 requirement) that auto manufacturers in the state put 7,500 electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles on the road by 2014? |
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REDRAIN |
China Tries to Suppress Olympic Rain |
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62.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will it rain during the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony? |
| | List all 24 in Energy and the Environment stocks |
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NAME |
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PRICE |
CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 10 of 14 |
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LIVELY |
One Million Users for Google's Lively |
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57.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Google’s social network Lively get a million users by January 1, 2009? |
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CRAIGSUES |
Craigslist Countersuit |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Craigslist win its countersuit against eBay by January 1, 2009 |
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SIMULEASE |
Simultaneous Theater and Online Release of Movie |
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42.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will a major movie studio agree to sell digital downloads of a movie on the same day it hits theaters by November 1, 2008? |
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TENMBPS |
Super-Fast Broadband |
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47.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will at least 33 million households in the U.S. have 10 Mbps or faster broadband connections by 2012? |
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WIKILEAKS |
WikiLeaks Shut-Down |
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39.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the website WikiLeaks.org be shut down by the end of the year? |
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OUTAGE |
Major Internet Outage 2008 |
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48.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the Internet suffer another big outage this year? |
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BREACH |
Data Breaches |
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64.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will 2008 set a record for data breaches? |
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KNOL |
Knol vs. Wikipedia |
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14.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Google's Knol site surpass Wikipedia in page views by the end of 2009? |
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GOOGROW |
Google Becomes America's Biggest Company |
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46.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Google become the biggest company in the U.S. by 2010? |
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FREETUBE |
YouTube Freed from Viacom Lawsuit |
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51.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Viacom drop its copyright-infringement suit against Google/YouTube by December 1, 2008? |
| | List all 14 in Web Trends stocks |
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NAME |
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CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 |
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TOYOTAPHEV |
Toyota Plug-In Hybrid |
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58.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Toyota release a lithium-ion powered plug-in hybrid by 2010?
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TESLA |
Tesla Production Ramps Up |
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49.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Tesla build 500 Roadsters by the end of the year? |
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THINK |
Th!nk City Electric Car Units Sold |
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51.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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The Th!nk City electric car will sell more than 100 units outside of Norway this year. |
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PASSCRX |
Higher Mileage Than CRX |
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30.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will any 2008 production car achieve a higher gas mileage than the 1987 Honda Civic CRX? |
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CLARITY |
Honda FCX Clarity Spreads beyond SoCal? |
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49.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the Honda FCX Clarity be available outside of Southern California by 2009? |
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VOLHYBRID |
Volvo Introduces First Plug-In Hybrid to the U.S. |
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44.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Volvo be the first to introduce a plug-in hybrid vehicle to American consumers? |
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FLYINGCAR |
Flying Car by 2025 |
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62.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will a flying car become commercially available by 2025? |
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HYBRID |
Hybrid Cars More Than 40 Percent of Vehicles Sold |
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80.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will hybrids make up more than 40 percent of the cars sold in the U.S. by 2015? |
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CHVOLT |
Chevy Plug-In Hybrid Produced |
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74.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
 |
Will Chevrolet begin selling a vehicle based on the Volt sequential plug-in hybrid concept by the end of 2010? |
| | List all 9 in Automotive Tech stocks |
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NAME |
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CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
| Displaying 1 - 10 of 10 |
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PS3UNITS |
PS3 Outsells PS2 |
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50.25 |
-3.25 |
-6.07 |
| |
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Will PS3 outsell PS2 by the end of 2009? |
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CREATURES |
20 Million Spore creatures |
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50.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will online players create 20 million creatures for the videogame Spore before September 7? |
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WIFLY |
Inflight Wi-Fi |
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47.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will American and Virgin Airlines outfit all of their planes with Wi-Fi by the holiday travel season? |
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WIIFIT |
Wii Fit Whips America into Shape |
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39.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Wii Fit become the top-selling console game in the U.S.? |
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ITAX |
iTunes Tax |
|
43.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Californians have to pay a tax on iTunes purchases? |
| |
RATEDM |
Mature-Videogame Sales |
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46.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will videogames rated“Mature” account for less than 10 percent of total game sales in 2008? |
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EVOTE |
Electronic-Voting Failure |
|
64.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will there be a verified case of electronic-voting-machine failure in the presidential race that causes more than 1,000 votes to be lost or miscounted in a single precinct on Election Day? |
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GTAIV |
Grand Theft Auto Most Popular Game of Next Year |
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84.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Grand Theft Auto IV be the best-selling game of 2008? |
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HELMET |
Better Helmets for the NFL |
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53.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the NFL give its players concussion-sensing helmets by the start of the 2008 season? |
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PS3WINS |
PlayStation 3 Wins Console Wars |
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40.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the PlayStation 3 outsell both the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii by the end of 2009? |
| | List all 10 in Entertainment & Gaming stocks |
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