Business Stories from August 27, 2011 (Change date)
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Review: Apple fine-tunes MacBook Air, making best betterAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - Is it possible for any Apple Inc. product to suffer a lack of attention? Probably not, but if it were, it might be the recently revamped MacBook Air. Released at the sam...
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At 65, Tupperware enjoys a renaissanceAug 28, 2011 7:08 am - Cindy Hallman-Morris grew up with Tupperware’s burping bowls, gelatin rings and pickle keeper, but she considered herself a casual buyer of the brand once she had her ow...
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Chinese film industry ‘growing like a rocket ship’Aug 28, 2011 7:08 am - Bruce Willis’s mob hit-man travels to the future in next year’s movie “Looper.” Thanks to backing from Beijing’s DMG Entertainment, that future is in China. DMG funded t...
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Amazon brings new local deals site to more citiesAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its new local deals site to New York and other parts of the country, hoping discount-happy consumers will flock to its offer...
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China becomes biggest PC marketAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - SAN FRANCISCO — China has passed an important technological milestone: It became the world’s biggest consumer of PCs in the second quarter, according to new market resea...
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Review: Sifteo a fun but pricey new way to playAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - NEW YORK — I am sliding three little cubes around my desk. My goal is to help a penguin named Booker collect a bunch of eggs and avoid being eaten by a horrific creature...
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7 products Steve Jobs got wrongAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - NEW YORK — Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty. Here are seven products created under his dir...
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U.S. eastern oil refiners shut some plantsAug 27, 2011 5:23 pm - Oil refiners in the U.S. Northeast, including Sunoco Inc., ConocoPhillips, PBF Energy Co. LLC, Hess Corp. and NuStar Energy LP, are shutting some of their combined daily...
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Refinery near Tripoli to restart, says officialAug 27, 2011 5:22 pm - ZAWIYA, Libya — The largest refinery in Libya’s gasoline-starved west is set to restart operations within a day or two, an official at the facility said on Saturday. Moh...
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IMF chief urges U.S. policymakers to help economyAug 28, 2011 6:55 am - JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The new head of the International Monetary Fund urged U.S. policymakers to take more aggressive steps to stimulate the economy and ease the housing ...