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Facebook wooing advertisers ahead of IPO
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 12:59pm MST
Facebook is wooing advertisers, unveiling new pages and ways for businesses to plug their brands on the social network and paving the way for more corporate users before its IPO.
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Wall Street bonuses expected to slip for 2011
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 8:20am MST
Cash bonuses to be paid to New York City securities workers for their 2011 performance are expected to slide 14 percent to $19.7 billion as stiffer regulations took a toll on profits, New York State's comptroller said Wednesday.
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MF Global's lost money probed by grand jury
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:07pm MST
CME Group Inc received two subpoenas, including one for a criminal probe, in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of futures broker MF Global Holdings Ltd.
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Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:19am MST
Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in a major patent battle.
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Dead letter offices: States closing the most mail centers
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:50am MST
The U.S. Postal service plans to close nearly half of the nation’s mail processing centers beginning May 15.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:50am MST
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Kodak wants to slash retirees' health benefits
Posted: February 27th, 2012, 3:00pm MST
A month after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Eastman Kodak Co. asked a federal court Monday to allow it to cut health care benefits for thousands of retirees.
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Oscars show disconnect between art, box office
Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:57am MST
What's old was new again at the 2012 Academy Awards.
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The best franchises for the money
Posted: February 27th, 2012, 5:56am MST
For those who don’t have the patience, capital or guts to generate sales from scratch, franchising can make a lot of sense — though not all brands deliver the same return.
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Warren Buffett: We've always had preferred successor
Posted: February 27th, 2012, 5:43am MST
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on CNBC that the new language he used to describe the succession plan in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders wasn't a sign of change.
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Optimistic farmers see boom coming to an end
Posted: February 26th, 2012, 12:39pm MST
Brian Roach scrawled a simple outlook for corn prices in a spiral notebook, with a line diving from the upper left hand corner to the lower right.
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Posted: February 26th, 2012, 12:39pm MST
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Except for housing, Buffett is a bull among bulls
Posted: February 26th, 2012, 10:52am MST
Berkshire's Warren Buffett says with emphasis that the housing market is still in a depression, he was as upbeat as ever this weekend on the rest of the dozens of businesses he owns.
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Buffett is candid about his investing mistakes
Posted: February 26th, 2012, 9:47am MST
The Oracle of Omaha earned his nickname — and more than a few billion dollars — by spotting investments that others overlooked, but Warren Buffett makes mistakes.
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8 reasons why gas will hit $5 a gallon this year
Posted: February 25th, 2012, 12:42pm MST
By Paul Ausick and Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St. The price of gas is a widely covered news item these days. Oil prices have moved up from $75 a barrel in October of last year to more than $100 a barrel currently.
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Citigroup subpoenaed in mortgage securities probe
Posted: February 24th, 2012, 9:45am MST
Citigroup said on Friday it received a subpoena from federal and state regulators seeking information about the bank's "issuing, sponsoring, or underwriting" of mortgage-backed securities.
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Apple's China iPad battle spreads to US
Posted: February 24th, 2012, 6:56am MST
A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf.
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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 6:56am MST
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Facebook IPO may be rough ride for investors
Posted: February 24th, 2012, 5:32am MST
The social network’s expected public stock offering later this year is expected to be hot. But corporate governance experts are cool on the company's tight executive control structure.
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FDIC coming up empty in pursuit of bankers
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:49pm MST
The case of First National Bank of Nevada illustrates complex legal maneuvering as the FDIC steps up efforts to pick through the detritus of the financial crisis.
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T-Mobile left hanging after AT&T merger fails
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:38pm MST
For all of T-Mobile’s talk about bouncing back from its failed merger with AT&T, it's nearly silent on the one thing consumers (and investors) care about: the iPhone.
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Postal service downsizing plan cuts 35,000 jobs
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:11pm MST
The U.S. Postal Service announced plans on Thursday to close or consolidate 223 mail processing centers and eliminate up to 35,000 jobs.
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HP's Whitman: Turnaround will take some time
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 10:46am MST
Shares of HP fell sharply Thursday after newly-appointed CEO Meg Whitman spooked investors by telling CNBC it will likely take several years to complete a turnaround at the company.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 10:46am MST
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Sears soars as it moves to reassure creditors
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:36am MST
Shares of Sears are soaring Thursday, up 20 percent after the company posted a large quarterly loss and moved to reassure investors that it can pay down its debt.
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Fuller Brush in bankruptcy weeks after 'reboot'
Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:14am MST
Fuller Brush, the company that popularized selling door-to-door in the U.S., has knocked on the door of bankruptcy court.
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Microsoft to Google: Please don't kill Web video
Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:40pm MST
Microsoft has made a complaint to the Europe’s competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and Google, accusing them of breaking competition rules and potentially blocking Web videos.
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Pay cut for AT&T CEO after failed T-Mobile deal
Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:59am MST
AT&T’s failed attempt to take over rival T-Mobile USA cost the company a whopping $4.2 billion in break-up fees and other charges. It cost its CEO $2 million.
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Businesses say they’re tangled up in red tape
Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:58am MST
It’s a perennial complaint from businesses: Onerous government regulations are stifling the ability of companies to take risks and grow, costing jobs and killing the economy.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:58am MST
Symantec recorded over 3 billion malware attacks in 2010. As the risk of attacks and data breaches grow, managing vulnerabilities keeps getting harder. Organizations need an agile solution. Click to learn more about agile vulnerability assessments. www.symantec.com
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Bank overdraft fees targeted in federal probe
Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:16am MST
The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing a crackdown on checking account overdraft fees charged by banks, saying the charges can "inflict serious economic harm" on consumers.
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Netflix strikes movie deal with Weinstein Co.
Posted: February 21st, 2012, 12:30pm MST
Netflix's Internet video service is adding more marquee attractions as it braces for a new competitive threat from cable-TV provider Comcast Corp.
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Comcast backs Diddy, Magic Johnson channels
Posted: February 21st, 2012, 10:39am MST
Comcast says four minority-owned networks will be launched on its cable-TV systems in the next two years, including channels spearheaded by music mogul Sean "P. Diddy'' Combs and NBA Hall of Famer Earvin "Magic'' Johnson.
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Graduating high school to CEO in Silicon Valley
Posted: February 21st, 2012, 9:55am MST
Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers.
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Online coupons not always honored by merchants
Posted: February 21st, 2012, 4:17am MST
When you buy an online coupon, how do you know it will be honored? Edgar Dworsky walked into a restaurant with a $6 coupon he’d bought for $3 to find the owner knew nothing about it.
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Posted: February 21st, 2012, 4:17am MST
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The 10 richest US presidents
Posted: February 20th, 2012, 9:41am MST
The fortunes of America’s presidents are tied to the economy of their time. George Washington was worth over half a billion in today’s dollars, while other presidents went bankrupt.
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How Target-ed advertising strips away our privacy
Posted: February 20th, 2012, 9:15am MST
Your privacy is gone. It's not coming back. A report that Target accidentally disclosed a teen's pregnancy to her father shows the logical extreme to which retailers can take the search for customer information.
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Celebrity Real Estate: NBA's Lin gets off the couch
Posted: February 18th, 2012, 8:49am MST
By Zillow staff Start the moving trucks.
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The most 20 powerful US CEOs 40 and under
Posted: February 18th, 2012, 8:42am MST
So, who are the CEOs under 40 running the biggest publicly traded companies, who have to answer to shareholders and carry all the responsibilities of running a business listed on a major exchange?
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'Sweethearting' deals cost retailers billions
Posted: February 17th, 2012, 6:06am MST
Jim Dailakis, a comedian and actor, got a free day on his rental car last year thanks to a generous company employee who was flirting with him. “Not only was she sweet, she had the best smile and a wonderful personality,” said Dailakis, who lives in New York.
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Posted: February 17th, 2012, 6:06am MST
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Studies: Toxic pavement sealant poses health risk
Posted: February 17th, 2012, 4:57am MST
News research shows that when it comes to a potent class of cancer-causing toxic chemicals, many American parking lots are a lot worse than some industrial centers.
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The states with the largest unionized work forces
Posted: February 16th, 2012, 5:27am MST
Overall union membership in the U.S. increased last year -- the first time it did not decline since 2007. The story gets slightly complicated when comparing union membership in the private sector vs. the public sector.
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Where's my refund? IRS can't tell you now
Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:03pm MST
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that its tool that lets people check on the status of their refunds is not currently working.
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Judge OKs ending Kodak's Oscars sponsorship
Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:16pm MST
Eastman Kodak Co can abandon a sponsorship deal for the Hollywood theater that hosts the Academy Awards, a U.S. judge ruled.
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That $1 bill in your wallet is costing us money
Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:04pm MST
Replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin could saving the federal government $4.4 billion over 30 years. That's the findings from the U.S. General Accountability Office.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:04pm MST
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Online games site Zynga sees user growth slow
Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:46am MST
Shares of Zynga plunged Wednesday after the company said user growth slowed in the final three months of 2011, raising fears about how the gaming company will generate revenue.
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CEO: Apple takes labor issues 'very seriously'
Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:26pm MST
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook again stressed Tuesday that the iPhone and iPad maker takes labor conditions in its globe-spanning supply chain seriously
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Small towns go dark with post office closings
Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:02am MST
Nearly 80 percent of the 3,830 post offices under consideration are in sparsely populated rural areas where poverty rates are higher than the national average.
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Apple iPads may face China export ban
Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:56am MST
A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc's computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.
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US regulators OK Google purchase of Motorola
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:36pm MST
Google Inc received U.S. antitrust approval to buy Motorola Mobility, a deal aimed at building up an arsenal of patents.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:36pm MST
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Former Bear Stearns managers settle SEC case
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:34pm MST
* Two defendants to pay more than $1 million
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Apple asks labor group to probe China suppliers
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:30am MST
In an effort to calm the storm building against Apple’s labor practices in China, the company said Monday that a labor group is going to conduct audits of its suppliers there.
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GE to hire 5,000 veterans, investing in plants
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:39am MST
General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest $580 million to expand its aviation footprint in the United States this year.
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'Linsanity' a marketing dream in Asia
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:43am MST
As the first ripples of "Linsanity" hit Asia, ethnic Chinese-American Jeremy Lin's fairytale rise has marketing men rubbing their hands with glee.
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Empire State Building files for $1 billion IPO
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:02am MST
Pssst. Hey, buddy! Wanna buy the Empire State Building? It's an old joke, at least among New Yorkers, but it will soon have a bit of the ring of truth to it.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:02am MST
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Exec who helped BofA's rise to US leader dies
Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:57pm MST
Tom Storrs, who set a small North Carolina bank on the path to becoming one of the largest U.S. financial institutions, died Friday at age 93.
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Boeing frustrated with new Dreamliner glitch
Posted: February 12th, 2012, 10:54am MST
Boeing Co., the world's second-largest plane maker, is frustrated with the latest 787 Dreamliner production glitch, but it shouldn't delay output goals, a top executive said Sunday.
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GM, Ford, Home Depot among Amierca's shrinking corporate giants
Posted: February 12th, 2012, 10:17am MST
By Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St. It is rare for one of America’s largest companies to lose a third or more of its sales in a brief time. When it happens, it is usually either because of market or economic forces, or because of a designed refocusing. 24/7 Wall St.
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Citibank overcharged some iPad users
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:02pm MST
Citibank double-charged some of its customers for months because of a technical glitch involving its iPad application, the bank acknowledged Friday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:02pm MST
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Obama to pitch lower corporate tax rate
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:02pm MST
President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax rate as early as this month, according to two sources close to the administration.
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LinkedIn surges, setting the tone for social media
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:10pm MST
Shares of LinkedIn surged Friday after the company reported quarterly sales that more than doubled and passed a major milestone, chalking up 150 million registered users worldwide.
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MF Global missing money now $1.6 billion, trustee says
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:53pm MST
Investigators don't know where it is, but they know it's a lot more money than they originally estimated. James Giddens, the trustee overseeing the broker's bankruptcy proceedings, said Friday in a statement e-mailed to news agencies that he estimates there's $1.
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Clawback provisions go mainstream, add reach
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:22pm MST
It's still early in the year, but "clawback" could be the word that haunts bankers' dreams in 2012.
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US lags way behind in science, math grads
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:54am MST
When it comes to churning out young workers with college degrees in math and science, the United States ranks low among advanced democracies.
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Airlines secretly cash in on unused tickets
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:29am MST
With so much talk about airline fees lately, you might overlook perhaps the largest source of ancillary revenue for the industry — and a big headache for you — that lets airlines make money for nothing. A lot of it.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:29am MST
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Engineer who gave Obama resume still jobless
Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:07am MST
A semiconductor engineer who sent his resume to the president is still seeking work because the job offers were outside North Texas.
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Kodak moments are coming to an end
Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:39am MST
Eastman Kodak, the bankrupt inventor of the hand-held camera, plans to stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a bid to cut costs.
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Postal Service posts $3.3 billion loss
Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:26am MST
The U.S. Postal Service reported quarterly losses of $3.3 billion, and says that at the rate it's going, it will run out of money by October.
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Groupon surprises by failing to net a profit
Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:09am MST
Groupon has surprised Wall Street by failing to make a profit since becoming a publicly-traded company in late 2011.
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Online dating: the science of love at first byte
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:30am MST
Online dating sites advertise groundbreaking technology and sophisticated formulas and state-of-the-art programming to help you find your true soul mate. But does it work?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:30am MST
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Sprint loss widens on iPhone costs
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:13am MST
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That'll be $2,000 extra for your aisle seat, Mr. Nader
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:35am MST
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4 Yahoo board members including chair leaving
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:09pm MST
Yahoo says four board members, including its chairman, will not seek re-election amid struggles at the company.
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Investor: Facebook’s Zuckerberg has too much control
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:52pm MST
One of America’s largest pension funds with an investment portfolio valued at around $145 billion wants to talk to the social-networking site about its corporate governance rules.
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Pro athletes can score winning bonuses
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:21am MST
While the players who comprise the last-place teams in all four major sports each make an excellent living, those players' counterparts get well rewarded for winning.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:21am MST
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Concerns over Zuckerberg’s control of Facebook
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:51am MST
One of America’s largest pension funds with an investment portfolio valued at around $145 billion wants to talk to the social-networking site about its corporate governance rules.
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Univision, Disney look at English news channel
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:23pm MST
Univision and Disney are in negotiations to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.
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Eastwood Super Bowl ad for Chrysler turning into a political football
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:40pm MST
“Times when we didn’t understand each other … discord and blame …” Clint Eastwood was reading from a script during this ad for Chrysler on Super Bowl Sunday, but the words also can describe the fallout over the ad.
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Eastwood's 'Halftime' is top with msnbc.com users
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:00pm MST
Chrysler ignored some of the unwritten rules of Super Bowl advertising — be brief, be funny — for the second year in a row, but it didn’t matter to msnbc.com readers.
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Goldman CEO's side-gig: gay marriage spokesman
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am MST
Sunday's most surprising ad wasn't aired during the Super Bowl. It was a YouTube video posted by the Human Rights Campaign in which Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein declared his support for same-sex marriage.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am MST
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As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:23am MST
Until recently, Facebook's relationship with the advertising community was at best politely dismissive, at worst outright antagonistic. But now, the social networking giant is eager to work with Madison Avenue.
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The cheap items that build billion-dollar companies
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:55am MST
By Charles B. Stockdale, 24/7 Wall St. Just because certain products have a low price tag does not mean they cannot sell for billions of dollars. In fact, some of the cheapest products make the most money for their companies. 24/7 Wall St.
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Some ugly lessons learned from the Super Bowl ads
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:41am MST
Did you see the same Super Bowl ads that I did? If so you're probably like me now planning for the end times. Those 30 second messages paint a pretty dark picture about what is expected of us.
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Great game, too bad the ads didn't keep up
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:59pm MST
The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between.
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Vote for your favorite Super Bowl ad
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:32pm MST
There's no question that the Giants and the Patriots played some exciting football tonight, but what about the ads? Did you like the nostalgia of seeing Jerry Seinfeld's and the Soup Nazi's return, and Matthew Broderick echoing Ferris Bueller?
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:32pm MST
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Vote, discuss during Super Bowl ads live blog
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:25am MST
Companies are spending millions of dollars for 30 seconds of your attention during the big game. So tell them what works and what doesn't as we live blog the ads throughout.
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Vote, discuss during Super Bowl ads live blog
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:25am MST
Companies are spending millions of dollars for 30 seconds of your attention during the big game. So tell them what works and what doesn't as we live blog the ads throughout.
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Boeing checks 787s for carbon fiber delamination
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:28pm MST
Boeing is inspecting its newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner for possible repairs to the carbon fiber composite structure of the plane. The issue involves a problem known as delamination.
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Companies that wasted the most on the Super Bowl
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:14am MST
A 30-second ad spot in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $3.5 million. But despite spending this much to reach such a massive audience at once, the results are rarely impressive.
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New York sues banks over electronic mortgage system
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:23am MST
New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Friday accused three major U.S. banks of fraudulently using an electronic mortgage database.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:23am MST
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Companies paid even lower tax rate than Romney
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:28am MST
According to new data from the Congressional Budget Office, U.S.-based companies paid only 12.1 percent in taxes on profits earned domestically. This is the lowest rate in four decades.
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Woman accused of selling fake Facebook stock
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:42am MST
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant.
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This Bud's for their best Super Bowl ads of all time
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:02am MST
While other corporations wring their hands over the decision to pay an average of $3.5 million on a 30 second Super Bowl ad in a down economy, The King of Beers continues to spend.
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Facebook's $100 billion valuation may be vaporware
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:15pm MST
Facebook was famously born in a Harvard dorm room, which might be why its much-hyped valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion seems to suffer from grade inflation.
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There's more than one way to bet on Facebook IPO
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:06pm MST
While investors decide whether to place their bets on Facebook’s initial public offering of stock, there are plenty of other ways to gamble on one of the biggest IPOs on record.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:06pm MST
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States have $ signs in their eyes over Facebook IPO
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:39pm MST
Among the myriad investors out there salivating over the prospect of a Facebook initial public offering, there's one group you may not have thought of: people who manage states' finances.
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Facebook offers reasons not to like its shares
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:52pm MST
Anyone looking for a reason NOT to invest in the most heavily hyped IPO of the decade need look no further than page 11 of the company's prospectus, filed with federal regulators Wednesday.
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Facebook files for IPO; plans to raise $5B
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:53pm MST
Facebook just filed documents paving the way for an initial public offering of stock. Click here to read the filing at the SEC. More shortly ...
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American wants to cut 13,000 workers, pension
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:49pm MST
Financially troubled American Airlines announced it's looking to cut 13,000 employees and terminate the company’s defined pension plan as part of its restructuring strategy to emerge from bankruptcy.
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Bankrupt Kodak tries to cancel Oscars date
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:04pm MST
Kodak has asked the U.S. bankruptcy court to void an estimated $4 million-a-year contract to have its name on the Hollywood theater that hosts the Oscars as the bankrupt photography company tries to reduce its debt.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:04pm MST
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Acura's Super Bowl ad: Seinfeld and The Soup Nazi
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:45am MST
Hot on the heels of their Ferris Bueller remake, Honda (this time for their Acura brand) brings the heavy nostalgia for Super Bowl Sunday again.
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VW 'Star Wars' Super Bowl ad isn't one, sort of
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:35am MST
Volkswagen won the peoples' vote last Super Bowl by tugging on the heart strings and evoking Star Wars. The company has done it again. But this is kind of a mess.
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Facebook may delay IPO filing, WSJ says
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:40am MST
Facebook isn’t making any friends with the likely delay of its IPO filing. WSJ's 'All Things D' blog says it may not happen until after the market closes at the earliest.
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American Airlines may cut up to 15,000 jobs
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:23am MST
American Airlines may cut up to 15,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, in an effort to cut costs at the struggling carrier, sources familiar with the situation told an NBC affiliate. NBC 5 reported Wednesday that the airline's parent company, AMR Corp.