Federated Sample, a New Orleans-based market research technology firm, announced today that it has raised a $2.8 million series A round of financing. The investment was led by Sopris Capital and early-stage New Orleans VC firm, Voodoo Ventures. As part of the round, Sopris Capital Founder and Partner Jon Kaiden will be joining the startup’s …

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Morgan Freeman has joined Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko in Joseph Kosinski?s sci-fi action flick Oblivion (formerly titled Horizons).? Cruise plays a veteran soldier who?s banished to the surface of a post-apocalyptic Earth and tasked with repairing ships that hunt down the aliens who destroyed our planet. When a mysterious woman (Riseborough) crash-lands …

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In this Nov. 9, 2011, photo manager Kathy Kelly-Long holds a jar of peanut butter which is in short supply at the Broad Street Presbyterian Church food pantry in Columbus, Ohio. Food banks around the country say rising peanut butter prices are making it harder for them to provide one of their most-requested items this …

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By The Associated Press NEW YORK ? The stock market chugged toward its highest level since last spring Wednesday after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates near zero for almost three more years. Bond yields dropped sharply, then bounced back later in the day when investors began looking more closely into the Fed’s …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearing the names of nearly 3,000 dead as America commemorated the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The name of every person killed in al Qaeda’s hijacked plane attacks was read on …

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