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A throwaway line in a CEO Scott Thompson's bio may cost him his job running Yahoo!, and it has already apparently ended the gig for Patti Hart -- the Yahoo! board member who hired him.

Given the sluggish recovery and a strapped consumer, you'd expect to see corporate America trudging along, not racing for glory. In fact, the Fortune 500 are thriving as a group.

Penny auction site YouNeverLose.com takes the risk out of paying to bid: Crazy as it sounds, you "gamble" without the possibility of losing your money.

There are plenty of Peyton Manning stocks -- mature companies that investors avoid -- even though they're still strong.

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In the Mediterranean waters near Giglio, treasure hunters are preparing to dive after the lost loot of the Costa Concordia. But the riches that went down with that cruise ship pale next to what one wreck hunter thinks he's found off the coast of Massachusetts: $3 billion in platinum.

It'll be an interesting week in the news of the new: Yahoo has a fresh CEO, auto shows and the CES will show off the latest in cars and tech, and a major homebuilder will tell us how new construction is doing. (Oh, and JP Morgan will give us a clue about how the banks are faring.)

That's what retailers anxious to lure holiday shoppers are hoping to find out with their latest innovation: Walmart, Kmart, Sears and eBay are all testing versions of the "real" online store.

Anyone who ever enjoyed a horror film knows the fascination a gruesome death can provoke. But no fictional horror can produce the frisson generated by the items for sale on websites like SerialKillersInk.net and MurderAuction.com: Real artifacts and artwork from the crime scenes and prison cells of the world's most famous serial killers.

Attention Storage Wars fans: Though the hit cable-TV show does give viewers an idea of what goes on at the auctions, it doesn't give the entire picture. The odds of you striking it rich at a storage auction are slim, and there are plenty of ways for the novice buyer to lose his shirt.