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Wall Street headed for a higher open Monday, as investors held on to their optimistic view of the economy after the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut last week.
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Motorola sets up system downtown for trade show-goers
Driving on Chicago's Wacker Drive, you can get a wireless Internet connection that fills a laptop's screen with full-size, full-motion, television-quality video, but only if you have a WiMax chipset plugged into your computer.
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Clinton adds options, which come at price
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's proposal to extend health coverage to all Americans by giving them choices gets high marks from businesses because their employees wouldn't have to give up what they have, and studies show workers are satisfied when they have more than one option.
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Some news people are as excited as a diabetic in a candy store when it comes to reporting the latest misstep of, say, O.J. Simpson. Then there's Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith.
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International hotel chains face a severe staffing shortage in China as they clamour to expand to meet the growing demand for hotels in the run-up to the Olympics in Beijing next near, InterContinental warns today.
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Consumer confidence remains high despite the credit crunch and the Northern Rock crisis, a survey shows.
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The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, yesterday defended the Governor of the Bank of England and the Government's banking regulations after a week when both came under fire from MPs.
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Northern Rock's embattled management is working against the clock on a funding strategy to tide over the troubled mortgage lender until a bidder emerges. With refinancing due on billions of pounds of debt issued to support mortgage loans, Adam Applegarth, the bank's chief executive, and his team will use the next two weeks to decide on funding options.
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SmartStream has cut the price range of its impending flotation to around £200m as a result of the current market volatility, but remains confident that investors will snap up shares at the discounted price.
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Wall Street capped a huge week with a sharp advance Friday after the government's employment report for September and its revision of August's data cooled the market's fears of a recession.
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After a strong end to last week – at least in terms of market reaction to what was considered a positive employment report on last Friday – the upcoming week again postpones most of its potent data until Friday.
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Door-busting deals for Black Friday have already popped up online, more than a month before the launch of the holiday shopping season.
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Chrysler is recalling around 125,000 2007-2008 Dodge Avenger and Chrysler Sebring cars.
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First-person shooter racks up that much at registers in first week out.
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Surprisingly strong Canadian job growth figures for September sent the loonie to its biggest one-day gain in 37 years Friday.
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Canada's economy churned out a much-better-than-expected 51,100 new jobs in September, enough to lower the country's unemployment rate to 5.9 per cent.
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U.S. job growth for September topped expectations in a report released Friday, but the country's unemployment rate nudged higher to 4.7 per cent.
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Barclays PLC on Friday dropped out of the race to acquire ABN Amro Holding NV after failing to secure 80 per cent of the holdings of its takeover target.
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New York’s arts community is bracing itself as one of its top donors, the tobacco giant Altria, prepares to move.
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The case of Stand ’n Seal is a powerful illustration of a consumer agency’s failure to fully live up to its mission.
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Google, which seeks to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, is expected to unveil the fruit of its secret mobile phone project later this year.
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The United Automobile Workers union has set an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline in its bid to reach a new four-year contract with Chrysler, a Chrysler spokeswoman said.
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The Internet phone company took a step back from the brink today, saying it had settled the patent suit for $80 million.
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Recent moves to impose control risk alienating loyalists.
SAN FRANCISCO — Why can't Apple Inc. stop ticking off the people who love it?
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State law holds sway, but there's no uniform procedure in place.
What has happened to the millions of toys, lunchboxes and other products recalled recently because they contain hazardous levels of lead or lead paint?
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In developing nations around the world, people who don't have bank accounts use their cellphones to transfer money and even make purchases.
It's Thursday, so 18-year-old Dennis Tiangco is off to the bank to collect his weekly allowance, zapped by his mother -- who's working in Hong Kong -- to his electronic wallet: his cellphone.
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A sad, but common, tale starts with alleged predatory lending, intensifies with impossibly high payments and usually ends in foreclosure.
Soledad Aviles dreamed for years of owning a home, with a plot of land where he could grow corn and chiles as he did in his native Mexico. So he felt blessed last year when he learned he could buy a three-bedroom, single-story stucco house on West La Verne Avenue in Santa Ana.
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Big firms buy means to extend their networks and follow users.
The recent rush by major Internet portals to buy advertising companies and extend their sales networks is a sign that the business of being a one-stop shop for information and entertainment isn't what it used to be.
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Online encyclopedia to move cross-country in January to hub of tech world.
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Home Depot is testing a warm-and-fuzzy approach to selling hammers, lighting and garage doors that targets female shoppers.
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Retailers' sales rose 0.6 percent last month and gasoline stations turned in their biggest jump in sales since May.
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Disney plans to sell a line of products called Disney Garden.
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The business software maker confirmed today it offered BEA Systems $17 per share, a 25 percent premium over Thursday's closing price of $13.62.
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The Canadian dollar soared to another modern-day record on Friday following the release of a better-than-expected jobs report in Canada.
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