One shopper sent in a note of thanks after he found the kind of bicycle he had as a child.

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During Teacher Appreciation Week, the people who value teachers often take time to send them a note of thanks or a token of appreciation.

WHITEHOUSE: Celebrating and Listening to Our Nation��s Teachers

Company officials note that thanks to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, the world has been taught how to use the new social media utility, but unlike the others, Cancer.im is more than a social network.

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Writing on a Facebook page set up to help track down Mr Templeton, his family issued a note of thanks for all the support it had received over the past five and a half years.

BBC: Alan Templeton

Thanks to the breadth of the GALAXY Note II's amazing viewing experience, a feature called Popup Note extends the concept of Popup Play, which lets users open an S Note instantly as a pop-up window anywhere on the screen.

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While the 10-year note yield is well off its lows thanks to an early 2013 climb, it still stands at just 1.82%, while the 30-year long bond is just a shade over 3%.

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Samsung didn't do too bad either, increasing sales by 18.6 percent year-on-year thanks to its Galaxy range (although it's important to note this figure is for total phone sales, not just smartphones).

ENGADGET: Gartner: smartphone sales up 47 percent in Q3, Android's OS market share increases (updated)

Note to Prudential (nyse: PUK - news - people): thanks, but no thanks.

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In the latest in a series of cautionary comments from the Street, Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu asserted in a research note this morning that Q3 results are likely to be toward the high end of guidance, thanks in part to a solid debut for the BlackBerry Torch.

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