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Why the Dodd bill wont wake the watchdogs (19 March 02:16) |
| The latest financial regulatory reform proposal leaves many chefs in the kitchen. But will anyone actually mind the stove? |
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When Jerry York shook up GM (18 March 10:37) |
| Jerry York always loved to play the subversive, the man behind the scenes who manipulated the levers of power. |
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Elizabeth Warrens crusade (18 March 08:12) |
| Elizabeth Warren, who came to Washington in 2008 with the task of keeping tabs on the financial bailout, today faces the unthinkable: business as usual for the Wall Street firms whose dealin... |
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What Lady Gaga DNA and patents have in common (18 March 02:17) |
| When radio was invented in the late nineteenth century by the likes of Marconi, Edison, and Tesla, government and industry faced a conundrum. Who would own the limited band of electromagneti... |
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Deal-a-day sites get social (18 March 03:14) |
| They're changing the way we shop - and raising tons of venture capital. Discounter Groupon is leading the way.retailers-get-social/ |
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A videogame business at war with itself (18 March 03:14) |
| Trip Hawkins says it's Farmville vs. Halo, and the winner could shape the next generation of game play. |
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Facebook overtakes Google (17 March 09:31) |
| What the Hitwise numbers do - and don't - tell us about the coming showdown between the Internet's largest web properties. |
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Playing Pebble Beach tips from its owner (17 March 09:30) |
| Peter Ueberroth may be the most popular person in golf this year: As the owner and co-chairman of Pebble Beach Co., this June he'll play host to the U.S. Open, the sport's hottest ticket. |
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Why business should back a national broadband policy (17 March 09:10) |
| The FCC's plan to bring broadband to every U.S. household highlights the importance of having fast Internet connections. |
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Elizabeth Warrens war (17 March 08:43) |
| Elizabeth Warren, who came to Washington in 2008 with the task of keeping tabs on the financial bailout, today faces the unthinkable: business as usual for the Wall Street firms whose dealin... |
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How TOMS Shoes got started (17 March 06:49) |
| My first venture was a door-to-door laundry business for students that I started while on a partial tennis scholarship at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. I wanted to do something th... |
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US states Running with the PIIGS (17 March 06:42) |
| The term PIIGS has been coined to refer collectively to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. Aside from being a cute acronym, the term describes the actions of these countries very a... |
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6 ways to grow your business (17 March 02:16) |
| For almost 30 years I've been organizing, advising, and just hanging with leaders of the world's top growth firms. Dubbed "gazelles," these companies continue to hire even as the economy stu... |
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King of Pebble Beach (17 March 02:12) |
| Peter Ueberroth may be the most popular person in golf this year: As the owner and co-chairman of Pebble Beach Co., this June he'll play host to the U.S. Open, the sport's hottest ticket. |
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Mellody Hobson How to wow your audience (17 March 02:07) |
| Mellody Hobson's defining moment as a public speaker came in the fifth grade when her teacher made her recite the poem "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson. |
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Broadband Essential to business (17 March 02:33) |
| The FCC's plan to bring broadband to every U.S. household highlights the importance of having fast Internet connections. |
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Broadband You cant work without it (17 March 01:42) |
| The FCC's plan to bring broadband to every U.S. household highlights the importance of having fast Internet connections. |
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3 small businesses who beat the giants (16 March 09:55) |
| The Little Clinic vs. CVS MinuteClinic |
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The death of business cards (16 March 09:28) |
| Doing the Bump at SXSW: A new app is trying to send all those little pieces of paper to the recycling bin. |
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IBMs analytics software saving lives (16 March 07:54) |
| To help Mayo Clinic improve detection of potentially deadly aneurysms, IBM prescribed technology used to treat ailing business operations. |
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Small Biz David vs Goliath (16 March 07:49) |
| The Little Clinic vs. CVS MinuteClinic |
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How 3 small businesses stood up to larger competitors (16 March 03:15) |
| The Little Clinic vs. CVS MinuteClinic |
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How TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie got started (16 March 02:30) |
| My first venture was a door-to-door laundry business for students that I started while on a partial tennis scholarship at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. I wanted to do something th... |
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Secret tips for car buyers (16 March 03:44) |
| Want to know the best day to buy a car next month? It's April 12th, the Monday before taxes are due, according to a new study. Since shoppers will be preoccupied and feeling poor, dealers wi... |
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How to craft a toothless bipartisan bill (15 March 11:49) |
| Washington insiders are all pumped up by Sen. Chris Dodd's pending financial reform bill. They say that it seems to have a real chance to garner bipartisan support. Yippee! That sounds great... |
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No room for error on US debt (15 March 10:18) |
| The United States isn't in jeopardy of losing its gold-plated credit rating, though by one measure America is closer to the ratings-downgrade danger zone than Spain. |
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Could mobile search be Bings big breakthrough (15 March 09:01) |
| Google dominates search on the Web, but on mobile phones it's anyone's game. |
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Apple iPad orders drop sharply (15 March 08:57) |
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Become an exec-for-rent (15 March 08:54) |
| If you're like most senior company loyalists, the word "temp" probably brings to mind certain corporate characters. The receptionist who's always updating his Facebook page. The coder who sp... |
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How IBMs analytics software saves lives (15 March 07:29) |
| To help Mayo Clinic improve detection of potentially deadly aneurysms, IBM prescribed technology used to treat ailing business operations. |
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Happy 25th dotcom Time to grow up (15 March 06:53) |
| The infrastructure of the Internet isn't capable of handling the amount of traffic sure to come in the next 25 years. To get there, government and business are going to have to work together... |
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Health care reforms strange math (15 March 06:26) |
| A few nights ago in the historic Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., President Obama reassured a crowd of Senator Claire McCaskill supporters that health-care reform wouldn't just be ... |
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How to become an exec-for-rent (15 March 01:56) |
| If you're like most senior company loyalists, the word "temp" probably brings to mind certain corporate characters. The receptionist who's always updating his Facebook page. The coder who sp... |
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$642M to clean up Lehman (13 March 04:33) |
| Unraveling the biggest-ever U.S. bankruptcy case isn't cheap. |
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Health care From broken to broke (13 March 01:53) |
| A few nights ago in the historic Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., President Obama reassured a crowd of Senator Claire McCaskill supporters that health-care reform wouldn't just be ... |
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$642 million to clean up Lehman -- and counting (12 March 11:39) |
| Unraveling the biggest-ever U.S. bankruptcy case isn't cheap. |
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Medical mafia don pleads guilty (12 March 11:10) |
| A medical consultant accused of orchestrating a conspiracy among top Las Vegas doctors and lawyers to inflate personal injury settlements by many millions of dollars, has pleaded guilty to c... |
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5 reasons why your cell service stinks (12 March 11:09) |
| Smartphone users blame congested airwaves for slow service. The truth is that many culprits cause problems for all wireless operators. |
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Warriors in the workplace (12 March 09:56) |
| John Suh wanted to make a good impression on his new mentor. Before their first meeting last November, the 26-year-old former Army officer came up with a clear outline for what he hoped to g... |
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SXSW rivalry fuels geekfest (12 March 09:34) |
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Give money to a jobless friend (12 March 08:15) |
| Dear Annie: I have a very close friend who's been out of work for almost a year now. He was my college roommate: I've known him for almost 20 years and, for about half that time, we worked a... |
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5 problems with cellphone networks (12 March 04:41) |
| Smartphone users blame congested airwaves for slow service. The truth is that many culprits cause problems for all wireless operators. |
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Building the worlds longest ethanol pipeline (12 March 04:18) |
| John D. Rockefeller figured out a long time ago that the most efficient way to transport liquid fuels long distances wasn't on wheels but in pipelines. Today POET, the privately held Sioux F... |
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The scariest zombie (12 March 01:00) |
| Now that Citigroup and AIG are rolling in the bucks, GMAC is looking like the most egregious zombie bank of them all. |
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March Madness gets new life on the Web (12 March 12:59) |
| The NCAA is testing whether college hoops fans will want to watch old highlights online. |
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Ed Whitacre gets a Motor City-style bashing (12 March 12:59) |
| GM's chairman and CEO is finding out what it is like to work in a fishbowl |
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Health-care reforms back-door tax (11 March 10:40) |
| The big talk on Capital Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama's... |
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Firing the $70 billion man (11 March 09:03) |
| On November 19, 2009 Jeffrey Gundlach was named a finalist for Morningstar's award for bond fund manager of the decade. For Gundlach, the nomination recognized 10 years of stellar results, e... |
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The new me (11 March 08:29) |
| I like myself pretty well. I've done okay as me. But it came to my attention recently that I was up for a redesign. These things are scary at first, but as they go along, they start to get e... |
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Can you learn to be an entrepreneur (11 March 04:57) |
| Gregg Fairbrothers wasn't born to business. He grew up in an academic household. "I didn't know a debit from a credit," he admits. Fairbrothers studied earth sciences at Dartmouth in the '70... |
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