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Income Taxes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Income Taxes [Abstract] |
Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Deferred income taxes at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consist of the following:
|  | December 31,
|  | 2011 |  | 2010
Deferred Tax Assets: |  |  |  |  |  |
Accumulated net operating losses (tax effected) |  | $ | 17,816.7 |  |  | $ | 17,236.0 |
Deferred revenue |  | 212.9 |  |  | 149.0 |
Contingent accounts payable |  | 13.8 |  |  | 26.0 |
Share-based compensation |  | 3,917.4 |  |  | 2,393.0 |
Charitable contributions |  | 408.2 |  |  | 176.0 |
Bad debt provision |  | 107.3 |  |  | 17.0 |
Goodwill |  | — |  |  | 164.0 |
Other |  | 48.5 |  |  | — |
Deferred tax assets prior to tax credit carryovers |  | 22,524.8 |  |  | 20,161.0 |
Deferred Tax Liabilities: |  |  |  |
Accumulated depreciation |  | (155.1 | ) |  | (80.0 | )
Intangible and indefinite lived assets |  | (3,303.0 | ) |  | — |
Foreign earnings not permanently reinvested |  | (2,138.5 | ) |  | — |
Deferred tax liabilities |  | (5,596.6 | ) |  | (80.0 | )
|  | 16,928.2 |  |  | 20,081.0 |
Valuation reserve |  | (20,702.9 | ) |  | (20,081.0 | )
Net deferred tax liability |  | $ | (3,774.7 | ) |  | $ | — |
Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit) [Table Text Block] |
|  | Years Ended December 31,
|  | 2011 |  | 2010
U.S. Federal benefit at statutory rate |  | (12,005.5 | ) |  | $ | (8,800.3 | )
State and local benefit net of U.S. federal tax |  | (2,177.0 | ) |  | (2,509.4 | )
Permanent non deductible expenses for U.S. taxes |  | 5,907.3 |  |  | 1,838.1 |
Reduction in deferred tax assets primarily related to deductibility of certain share-based compensation |  | (72.4 | ) |  | 2,938.6 |
True-up of prior year net operating loss |  | 1,367.3 |  |  | (413.6 | )
Foreign earnings not permanently reinvested |  | 1,810.3 |  |  | — |
Effect of change in deferred tax rate |  | 2,852.1 |  |  | — |
Writedown of net operating losses due to Section 382 limitations |  | — |  |  | 1,932.6 |
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets |  | 2,317.9 |  |  | 5,014.0 |
Tax provision |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 9 -Section 50 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32639-109319 + Details
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