Business Stories from January 14, 2014 (Change date)
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China video sites confident public will payJan 14, 2014 11:11 am - BEIJING — When media studies student Liu Zhiqi settles down to watch a movie or TV drama at the home of the San Francisco family she lodges with, she misses the convenie...
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GOP constituents also depend on jobless aidJan 14, 2014 6:37 am - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When federal emergency unemployment benefits expired last month, the effects ran deep in a Colorado county marked by two exit ramps off Interst...
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Google says it will buy Nest Labs for $3.2 billionJan 14, 2014 11:18 am - Google will pay $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, which develops high-tech versions of devices like thermostats and smoke detectors, in its second-largest acquisition ever....
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Obama to press jobs agenda with executive actionsJan 14, 2014 6:18 am - Ready to put an economic spotlight on his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is picking up the pace of his jobs message and making a case that, even agai...
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JPMorgan returns to a profit in fourth quarterJan 14, 2014 6:14 am - JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, says it returned to a profit in the fourth quarter. The bank said it had net income of $5.3 billion in the last three mo...
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Springfield airport makes $5.3M in improvementsJan 14, 2014 6:21 am - Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport underwent $5.3 million in improvements last year. Springfield Airport Authority Chairman Frank Vala said Monday that the up...
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Affordable housing for gay seniors opens in Pa.Jan 14, 2014 2:46 pm - PHILADELPHIA — Jerry Zeft was so excited to move into his new apartment that he slept on an air mattress for nearly a week while he waited for his bed and other belongin...
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Beanie Babies maker avoids prison for tax evasionJan 15, 2014 6:51 am - The billionaire businessman behind Beanie Babies learned Tuesday he won’t go to prison for hiding at least $25 million from U.S. tax authorities, and the judge who gave ...
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Downers Grove, Schaumburg corporate reps to join trade missionJan 15, 2014 6:51 am - Executives of two Illinois companies are joining the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on her first trade mission. Chicagoan Penny Pritzker says she'll be traveling to Mexico i...
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Bourbon truly American, despite foreign tiesJan 14, 2014 3:40 pm - CLERMONT, Ky. — Kentucky bourbon remains authentically American, whiskey insiders maintain — even when some of its distillers answer to foreign companies. The planned $1...