Business Stories from July 16, 2011 (Change date)
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Illinois officials offer mortgage helpJul 17, 2011 10:35 am - Illinois and local officials will be available Saturday for residents of the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods of Chicago to discuss the mortgage crisis. Official...
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Will Plus make Google king of the online world?Jul 17, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Google didn’t build its new Plus service simply to have an online hangout like Facebook. Rather, Google’s new social-networking endeavor is about trying to ga...
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Review: Google all the time on ChromebookJul 16, 2011 5:03 pm - ATLANTA — New laptops running Google’s Chrome operating system offer a new approach in portable computing: Games, productivity tools and anything else you might need are...
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Coffee protects against drug-resistant germs, study findsJul 17, 2011 7:08 am - Drinking tea and coffee may be linked to reducing antibiotic resistant bacteria carried by healthy people in their noses, a potential benefit of the beverages that baffl...
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Debt crisis threatens ItalyJul 16, 2011 6:16 am - LONDON — Europe’s escalating debt crisis is on the verge of engulfing by far its biggest victim: Italy, the world’s seventh-largest economy, whose sheer size could thwar...
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Obama caught in the middle of phone company mergersJul 16, 2011 6:16 am - AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile is a deal that consumer advocates hate but labor unions love. And that puts the Obama administration squarely between two powerful co...
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French banks on front line of Italian riskJul 16, 2011 6:16 am - PARIS — French banks, including BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole, have the most at risk from the euro-region’s debt crisis infecting Europe’s largest borrower, Italy. At ...
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Corn imports by China more than doubleJul 16, 2011 7:42 am - SINGAPORE — China, the world’s second-largest corn user, may more than double purchases to a record as it seeks to boost stockpiles and cool the fastest inflation in thr...
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Apple files complaint against SamsungJul 16, 2011 6:16 am - Apple Inc has filed a U.S. trade complaint to block Samsung Electronics Co from importing a variety of electronic devices, less than one week after Samsung sought to sto...
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After early zeal, TV networks pull back on Web seriesJul 17, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Around 2007, TV networks made a land rush to the Web, looking to lay down digital production studios. Four years later, many of those networks have pulled up ...
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