Business Stories from September 10, 2012 (Change date)
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How iPhone availability has grown in USSep 10, 2012 1:12 pm - Since Verizon Wireless broke AT&T’s exclusive grip on the iPhone last year, several other phone carriers now offer Apple’s popular smartphone. On Monday, T-Mobile said i...
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T-Mobile launches campaign to lure iPhone usersSep 11, 2012 5:41 am - NEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, the only “Big 4” phone company that doesn’t sell the iPhone, now wants to snag used ones from AT&T. Starting Wednesday, when Apple is expected t...
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Critics to have their say about Dimucci proposalSep 11, 2012 5:29 pm - Critics of a plan that would allow a shopping center to be built near Hawthorn Woods will have their turn at the podium Tuesday during the latest public discussion of th...
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Groupon names ex-KPMG executive as accounting chiefSep 11, 2012 5:41 am - Groupon Inc., operator of the largest daily-deal website, named former KPMG LLC executive Brian Stevens as Chief Accounting Officer. Stevens, who worked for 16 years at ...
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Kodak job cuts continue as it aims to exit Ch. 11Sep 11, 2012 5:41 am - NEW YORK — Kodak is reshuffling some executives and continuing to cut jobs as the pioneering photography company tries to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Eastman Koda...
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HP expands job cuts by 2,000Sep 10, 2012 2:02 pm - NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to cut about 2,000 more jobs than it had previously announced, as CEO Meg Whitman tries to turn the company around. In a regul...
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Consumers Credit Union hosts free car-buying seminarSep 21, 2012 1:15 pm - Consumers Credit Union hosts a “Car Buying Made Easy — Know Before You Go” no-cost seminar to provide tips and tricks of the trade to help consumers make their next auto...
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Toys R Us to release own tabletSep 11, 2012 5:41 am - WAYNE, N.J. — Toys R Us plans to launch its own tablet computer aimed at children called Tabeo on Oct. 21, a low-priced entry into the increasingly crowded tablet busine...
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BP sells some Gulf of Mexico assets for $5.55 billionSep 10, 2012 10:54 am - LONDON — Oil company BP said Monday it is selling some deep-water assets in the Gulf Mexico to Plains Exploration & Production Co. for $5.55 billion, a big step in BP’s ...
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Who’s your best sales rep? Probably GoogleSep 10, 2012 7:07 am - Google may well be your best salesperson. The ubiquitous search engine’s job, says John Fox, is to get people to your website, which means, he adds, that it’s your job t...