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"Everyone wants free Internet, but the goal of a business is to make money,"

Not only do these hunts promise the chance to land a big trophy–a rack of elk antlers for the library wall, for instance–they’re also tapping into the same extreme fitness boom that has fueled rising participation in triathlon and marathon.

"VR is taking the world by storm"

In MERCURYcsc’s recent edition of The Pulse report addressing activism, an overwhelming majority of respondents think that trusted Outdoors and Travel brands could have significant influence on environmental issues.

Yahoo will weigh a spinoff of its core business, which includes its advertising, search technology, Yahoo Sports and the Tumblr blogging platform.

Google became a licensed mortgage broker this week after launching Google Compare, which allows people to compare lending options after plugging in their credit score, down payment size and property value.

The new venture by the Internet titan is the latest in "fintech" (a portmanteau for financial technology), which has Silicon Valley testing the waters of the financial services market.

Antony Jenkins, former CEO of Barclays, predicted last week that the "unstoppable force" of technology will lead to a number of "Uber moments" over the next decade that will greatly disrupt banks, according to The Guardian.

The threat is hardly new. Earlier this year, a USA TODAY investigation of cyber and physical attacks on the U.S. grid over several years found that incidents occur about once every four days.

Plum Creek employs more than 1,200 people nationwide and started as a small logging company in Minnesota in 1944. It opened its first sawmill in Columbia Falls two years later and has since been a cornerstone of the community. It is currently based in Seattle.

Weyerhaeuser is buying Plum Creek for $8.4 billion to form the nation’s largest private owner of timberland, the Seattle-area firms announced Sunday.

The study compares states using 35 metrics that measure overall economic performance, and identifies the top ten states in six important policy categories for job growth and economic health: Economic Performance; High-Tech Performance; Transportation and Trade; Talent Pipeline; Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Business Climate.