Business Stories from August 11, 2012 (Change date)
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Saudi shares rise to highest level since MayAug 11, 2012 2:18 pm - Shares in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest stock market, climbed to their highest since late May on valuations and optimism in the U.S. Etihad Etisalat Co., a Saud...
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Iranian pilot campaigns to lift airliner sanctionsAug 14, 2012 12:03 pm - TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian pilot who guided an Iran Air Boeing passenger plane to a safe emergency landing last year despite broken front landing gear has launched a camp...
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How to find a lost cellphoneAug 12, 2012 7:08 am - New York Times technology columnist David Pogue lost his iPhone on an Amtrak train earlier this week but recovered it last week after police found it in the backyard of ...
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Free Wi-Fi catches on with NYC’s subway ridersAug 12, 2012 7:08 am - NEW YORK — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was. But now, she says, she u...
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4 steps you should take to avoid getting hackedAug 11, 2012 7:50 am - Last Friday evening, a hacker got into Mat Honan’s Apple account, remotely erased the data on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook, deleted his Google account, commandeered his ...
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What happens when our cellphones can predict our every move?Aug 14, 2012 12:03 pm - Your cellphone knows where you’ve been. And new research shows it can take a pretty good guess at where you’re going next. A team of British researchers has developed an...
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Court mulls free speech implications of clicking ‘Like’Aug 12, 2012 7:46 am - Daniel Ray Carter Jr. logged on to Facebook and did what millions do each day: He “liked” a page by clicking the site’s thumbs up icon. The problem was that the page was...
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Review: Following foreign athletes is cumbersomeAug 11, 2012 6:07 pm - NEW YORK — It should come as no surprise that much of the Olympics coverage in the U.S. is focused on American athletes and top performers from other countries. You’re n...
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Livestock farmers seek pause in ethanol productionAug 12, 2012 7:46 am - WASHINGTON — Livestock farmers and ranchers seeing their feed costs rise because of the worst drought in a quarter-century are demanding that the Environmental Protectio...
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On YouTube channels, comedians shift the punchlineAug 13, 2012 6:19 am - NEW YORK — On the debut episode of “Smart Girls at the Party,” Amy Poehler sits in a dark studio and solemnly introduces her first guest as a “singer, actor, dancer, mus...