Business Stories from December 1, 2012 (Change date)
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App reviews: Xbox Smart Glass, Angry Birds Star WarsDec 02, 2012 7:15 am - XBox Smart Glass Microsoft recently updated its Xbox Live app with a host of new features — and a new name: Xbox Smart Glass. This app lets users control limited pa...
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Review: Rooming with strangers — a game of trustDec 02, 2012 7:08 am - NEW YORK — “Do we still have a TV?” That’s the text message I got from my husband as I walked up the steps to our Brooklyn apartment on a Friday afternoon this fall. I w...
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How chains are fill shopping gap between Black Friday and ChristmasDec 01, 2012 1:46 pm - NEW YORK — Banana Republic is giving away Ghirardelli chocolates and six Fiat 500s in the first 12 days of December as U.S. retailers fight the holiday shopping lull tha...
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Tech gifts you can buy for under $100Dec 02, 2012 7:15 am - Battery pack Pro: You can never have too much battery power Con: Needs to be charged on its own Best for: Motor-mouthed mobile Web surfers Retail price: $49.99 Just...
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Churning butter, revisiting an olde technologyDec 01, 2012 10:37 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — A few years ago, on a lark, I decided to make butter. This sounds like it might be some kind of arduous, gourmand pursuit, but it was quite simple. F...
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Why are hotel rooms so expensive?Dec 02, 2012 7:15 am - WASHINGTON — There’s not a single reason why hotel rooms are so much more expensive on a per night basis than ordinary housing. But one place to start is taxes. Local ta...
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Rising tech job boom eventually lifts boats elsewhere in San FranciscoDec 02, 2012 7:08 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Nerds are no longer the only ones benefiting from the innovation boom. Having left the heavy lifting to technology companies until early this year, San F...
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China mafia-style hack attack drives California firm to brinkDec 01, 2012 1:46 pm - WASHINGTON — During his civil lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China, Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country’s lawyers. He read no court documen...
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Images: Target and Neiman Marcus holiday launchDec 01, 2012 1:46 pm - ...
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