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| Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
(Reuters)
|  Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.
| | 3/9/2010 10:02:33 PM |
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| Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California
(AP)
|  AP - The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
| | 3/9/2010 8:30:13 PM |
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| EU urges US to join in action against speculators
(AP)
| | AP - European officials urged the U.S. to join in a crackdown on speculators who bet against Europe's currency union, warning they might ban some credit default swaps — opaque financial instruments blamed for worsening the world financial crisis. | | 3/9/2010 8:00:10 PM |
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| ICF International's 4Q net ticks higher
(AP)
| | AP - ICF International Inc.'s quarterly profit ticked higher as the company benefited from a lower tax rate and higher revenue from its consulting and technology services. | | 3/9/2010 7:05:39 PM |
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| Dollar General sues rival chain over colors
(AP)
| | AP - Dollar General Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against rival discount chain Fred's Inc., claiming the smaller company is using its trademark yellow and black colors. | | 3/9/2010 6:48:59 PM |
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| Kan. mulling new soda tax, raising other levies
(AP)
| | AP - Kansas would impose a new tax on soda — a penny for every teaspoon of sugar — under a proposal that a key legislator outlined Tuesday while lawmakers considered raising taxes to erase a projected budget shortfall. | | 3/9/2010 4:49:43 PM |
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| One Congressman's Solution for Boosting Small Businesses Loans
(The Motley Fool)
| | The Motley Fool - The first Friday of every month brings the all-important employment report. February's numbers were better than anticipated. The United States lost only 36,000 jobs, versus the 68,000 that experts expected. This compares with 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009. Still, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7%, with the unofficial rate stuck around a whopping 16%. | | 3/9/2010 3:24:07 PM |
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| Chat Transcript: Undergraduate Ranking
(BusinessWeek)
| | BusinessWeek - Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business (Mendoza Undergraduate Profile) took the top spot in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranking of undergraduate business programs for the first time this year. Students praised the program for its values and strong alumni network. And there were many other surprises for undergraduate business programs in 2010. Bloomberg BusinessWeek editors Louis Lavelle and Geoff Gloeckler recently revealed the top 50 programs and answered questions about the ranking from reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW) and readers during a live chat event. ... | | 3/9/2010 7:08:46 AM |
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| Google opens Web store for business applications
(AP)
| | AP - Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. | | 3/9/2010 9:58:00 PM |
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| MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
(AP)
|  AP - Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
| | 3/9/2010 9:33:15 PM |
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| Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA
(AP)
| | AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater. | | 3/9/2010 8:18:05 PM |
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| LG Elec launches Android-based smartphone
(Reuters)
| | Reuters - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups. | | 3/9/2010 7:02:56 PM |
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| `Nobel of computing' goes to early PC designer
(AP)
| | AP - A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer. | | 3/9/2010 3:08:06 PM |
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| Excel, Movie Maker Flaws Fixed by Microsoft
(PC World)
| | PC World - In a relatively light Patch Tuesday, Microsoft closed holes that could allow a poisoned Excel or Movie Maker file to install malware on a vulnerable PC. However, a new flaw involving VBScript and Windows Help files that can be targeted through Internet Explorer remains unfixed. | | 3/9/2010 1:56:00 PM |
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| Sony, Samsung Join Campaign To Push 3-D TV Sets
(NewsFactor)
| | NewsFactor - On the heels of the big 3-D television presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Sony and Samsung are joining Panasonic, LG Electronics, and others in promoting the new technology. On Tuesday, Sony said it is aiming for 10 percent of its TV sales within the next year to be 3-D models, and Samsung announced a range of HDTV sets and Blu-ray players will ship later this month. | | 3/9/2010 12:29:49 PM |
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| Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL Offshoot
(PC World)
| | PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday. | | 3/9/2010 12:00:19 PM |
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| Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer
(AP)
|  AP - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, offered contradictory explanations for his behavior Tuesday, acknowledging he groped a male staffer in a non-sexual way but later denying any groping.
| | 3/9/2010 11:11:11 PM |
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| Obama using 'bounty hunters' to root out fraud
(AP)
|  AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
| | 3/9/2010 10:14:14 PM |
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| Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling'
(AP)
|  AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."
| | 3/9/2010 9:09:46 PM |
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| FACT CHECK: Lawmaker quits amid changing stories
(AP)
| AP - New York congressman Eric Massa resigned his House seat this week under a sexual harassment cloud, claiming fellow Democrats forced his ouster to keep him from voting against their health care bill.
| | 3/9/2010 8:37:58 PM |
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| Obama pushes senators for climate bill
(AP)
|  AP - President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
| | 3/9/2010 6:54:02 PM |
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| Congress seeks data on Lejeune water contamination
(McClatchy Newspapers)
|  McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor that was involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decades.
| | 3/9/2010 5:41:00 PM |
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| UN pays tribute to 101 staff killed in Haiti
(AP)
| | AP - An emotional Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday to "the 101 heroes" working for the United Nations who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history. | | 3/9/2010 2:16:50 PM |
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| Missing body of Cyprus' ex-leader found, 3 arrests
(AP)
|  AP - Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus' former president was found reburied in another grave and three men were arrested Tuesday in what officials called a case of bodysnatching for ransom.
| | 3/9/2010 2:05:35 PM |
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| Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings
(Bloomberg)
|  Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.âs handling of
recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the
automakerâs U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that
the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.
| | 2/22/2010 8:28:42 PM |
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| Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
(Reuters)
| Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.
| | 3/9/2010 10:02:33 PM |
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| Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California
(AP)
| AP - The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
| | 3/9/2010 8:30:13 PM |
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| EU urges US to join in action against speculators
(AP)
| | AP - European officials urged the U.S. to join in a crackdown on speculators who bet against Europe's currency union, warning they might ban some credit default swaps — opaque financial instruments blamed for worsening the world financial crisis. | | 3/9/2010 8:00:10 PM |
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| ICF International's 4Q net ticks higher
(AP)
| | AP - ICF International Inc.'s quarterly profit ticked higher as the company benefited from a lower tax rate and higher revenue from its consulting and technology services. | | 3/9/2010 7:05:39 PM |
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| Dollar General sues rival chain over colors
(AP)
| | AP - Dollar General Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against rival discount chain Fred's Inc., claiming the smaller company is using its trademark yellow and black colors. | | 3/9/2010 6:48:59 PM |
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| Kan. mulling new soda tax, raising other levies
(AP)
| | AP - Kansas would impose a new tax on soda — a penny for every teaspoon of sugar — under a proposal that a key legislator outlined Tuesday while lawmakers considered raising taxes to erase a projected budget shortfall. | | 3/9/2010 4:49:43 PM |
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| One Congressman's Solution for Boosting Small Businesses Loans
(The Motley Fool)
| | The Motley Fool - The first Friday of every month brings the all-important employment report. February's numbers were better than anticipated. The United States lost only 36,000 jobs, versus the 68,000 that experts expected. This compares with 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009. Still, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7%, with the unofficial rate stuck around a whopping 16%. | | 3/9/2010 3:24:07 PM |
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| Chat Transcript: Undergraduate Ranking
(BusinessWeek)
| | BusinessWeek - Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business (Mendoza Undergraduate Profile) took the top spot in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranking of undergraduate business programs for the first time this year. Students praised the program for its values and strong alumni network. And there were many other surprises for undergraduate business programs in 2010. Bloomberg BusinessWeek editors Louis Lavelle and Geoff Gloeckler recently revealed the top 50 programs and answered questions about the ranking from reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW) and readers during a live chat event. ... | | 3/9/2010 7:08:46 AM |
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