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Diamond Foods Stacks Up With $1.5 Billion Deal to Buy Pringles

NEW YORK -- Diamond Foods Inc. took its biggest bite yet of the snack business with a $1.5 billion deal to buy the Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble Co. The deal is the biggest in a stack of acquisitions for Diamond and will more than triple the size of the maker of Emerald nuts and Pop Secret popcorn. Adding Pringles...

Did NY Jewelers Hire Phony Hasidic Jews in 'Snatch'-Like Heist? [VIDEO]

It's the video they didn't want you to see. In a caper that recalls the Guy Ritchie crime film "Snatch," prosecutors say the owners of a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District staged a fake robbery committed by perps wearing phony beards and black coats while disguised as Hasidic Jews, according to the New York...

Rare Pink Diamond Could Fetch $38 Million at Auction

GENEVA (Oct. 5) -- A rare pink diamond that goes on sale next month could fetch up to $38 million, according to auctioneers Sotheby's. The "fancy intense pink" 24.78 carat gem is being sold by an unidentified private collector, the auction house said. "We're able to say it's been in the possession of the same owner for...

Where Did Naomi Campbell's Missing Blood Diamonds Go?

(Aug. 5) -- "The case of the missing diamonds" might read like the introduction to a great mystery novel or heist film, but today it perfectly described the real-life situation that unfolded at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, where British supermodel Naomi Campbell testified that she did indeed accept several "very...

British PM Refuses India's Diamond Demand

LONDON (July 29) -- For Britain, it's a glittering memento of the might and majesty of the Victorian Empire; to India, a reminder of centuries of colonial oppression and cruelty. Now the 106-carat Koh-i-noor diamond is at the heart of a diplomatic spat that could mar British Prime Minister David Cameron's attempts to build...

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PICS: Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration

The exhibition - designed, unsurprisingly, to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - features pieces created over the last three hundred years showcasing the diversity of diamond cutting and mounting as well as the historical importance of the pieces.

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Diamond Lays Off Digital Employees, Partnership With iVerse Unaffected

Changes are afoot at Diamond Comic Distributors , and they don't seem to reflect confidence in the company's digital efforts.

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Here Is Priscilla Chan's Wedding Ring

Raise your hand if you thought that Priscilla Chan â now Priscilla Chan-Zuckerberg â would be rocking an offensively large diamond now that she's married one of the richest men in the world.

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Swallowed Diamond's Value Up For Debate

A $20,000 diamond swallowed and expelled by a man who allegedly tried to steal it could soon be for sale.

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Debie Kim: Why We're Freaking Out Over Colored Diamond Rings

When it comes to relationships and marriage, celebrities may not be our finest choice in role models.

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06/02/12 Live From JCK Las Vegas: Industry Upbeat as JCK Opens Source: Israel Diamonds As the Big Kahuna of all jewelry trade shows, JCK Las Vegas, swung open its doors June 1, many hoped this would be the year the jewelry biz finally moved past the Great Recession.
06/02/12 Edina trying to avoid 'conflict minerals' Source: Star Tribune - Minneapolis MN Edina has become the first Minnesota city with a policy that dictates the city try to avoid buying technology that contains "conflict minerals."
05/31/12 PICS: Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration Source: The Huffington Post The exhibition - designed, unsurprisingly, to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - features pieces created over the last three hundred years showcasing the diversity of diamond cutting and mounting as well as the historical importance of the pieces.
05/23/12 Here Is Priscilla Chan's Wedding Ring Source: The Huffington Post Raise your hand if you thought that Priscilla Chan â now Priscilla Chan-Zuckerberg â would be rocking an offensively large diamond now that she's married one of the richest men in the world.
05/22/12 Swallowed Diamond's Value Up For Debate Source: The Huffington Post A $20,000 diamond swallowed and expelled by a man who allegedly tried to steal it could soon be for sale.

Background on diamond

In mineralogy, diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas "unbreakable") is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.

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