Business Stories from March 13, 2013 (Change date)
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Discover to begin offering home equity loansMar 14, 2013 7:17 am - Riverwoods-based Discover Financial Services says it will begin offering home equity loans beginning in the second half of this year, the latest move by the company to p...
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Utah lawmakers keep ‘Zion curtains’ in placeMar 14, 2013 4:19 pm - SALT LAKE CITY — A measure that would have scaled back one of Utah’s offbeat liquor laws died in the state Legislature on Tuesday. Lawmakers killed a proposal that would...
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Google paying bonuses totaling $15M to 4 top execsMar 13, 2013 5:46 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is paying nearly $15 million in bonuses to four of the Internet search company’s top executives for their performances last year. Documents filed ...
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Google pays $7M fine to settle Wi-Fi privacy caseMar 14, 2013 7:17 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google will pay a $7 million fine to settle a multistate investigation into a snoopy software program that enabled the Internet search leader to intercep...
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Illinois joins multistate settlement with GoogleMar 14, 2013 7:23 am - Illinois will receive about $362,000 from a multistate settlement with Google over its collection of emails, passwords and other sensitive information transmitted on unp...
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Dell rejects request for info leading to buyoutMar 14, 2013 4:19 pm - ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell has rejected a request from a shareholder rights group seeking to review the internal information that led to a proposed $24.4 billion sale of t...
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In Asia, wealth buys access to clean waterMar 13, 2013 9:11 am - MANILA, Philippines — Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world’s ...
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Analysis: ‘Grand bargain’ a tough sell in CongressMar 14, 2013 4:19 pm - WASHINGTON) — For all the talk of a presidential “charm offensive” and possible thaw in partisanship, ample signs show that Congress is far from reaching a “grand bargai...
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World stocks down on bleak UK factory productionMar 13, 2013 7:48 am - BANGKOK — World stock markets ran out of steam Wednesday after a sharp drop in Britain’s industrial production and a warning from the head of Germany’s central bank that...
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House to vote on bill preventing welfare waiversMar 13, 2013 3:38 pm - WASHINGTON — The House is taking up a politically charged bill that would block the Obama administration from waiving any work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform la...