Business Stories from July 28, 2012 (Change date)
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Yahoo CEO Mayer’s pay package worth more than $59MJul 29, 2012 8:18 am - NEW YORK — Yahoo is giving its new chief executive Marissa Mayer a compensation package worth more than $59 million over the next several years. Yahoo Inc. said in a reg...
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New York Times scraps newspaper app for BlackBerry phonesJul 28, 2012 2:12 pm - The New York Times dropped its downloadable application for BlackBerry users, dealing a setback to Research In Motion Ltd. as it races to introduce a new version of the ...
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Cell companies get millions for giving cops dataJul 28, 2012 2:12 pm - The nation’s wireless carriers spend a surprising amount of time and energy sharing their customers’ private data with police and the FBI. Those companies fielded upwar...
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YouTube wants commenters to use real namesJul 30, 2012 6:15 am - In an attempt to clean up its notorious comments section, YouTube is encouraging users to give up the tool that most enables online abuse — their anonymity. Commenting o...
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Skype quiet on whether if can eavesdrop on your conversationsJul 30, 2012 6:15 am - New surveillance laws being proposed in countries from the United States to Australia would force makers of online chat software to build in backdoors for wiretapping. F...
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Amazon cutting good deals on sales tax with statesJul 29, 2012 8:18 am - When Texas sent Amazon.com Inc. a $269 million sales-tax bill in 2010, the world’s biggest online retailer shrugged. As lawmakers forced the issue last year, the company...
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Move over Prius, it’s Tesla timeJul 28, 2012 2:12 pm - NEW YORK — Gliding up Manhattan’s West Side Highway in a Tesla Model S, I change lanes and see the traffic before me part as though for Moses. I stab the gas pedal — er,...
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