Business Stories from March 8, 2014 (Change date)
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Jewel-Osco tightens grip on Lake Zurich with 2 stores in same areaMar 09, 2014 8:30 am - Two stores will be open around Rand Road
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Promise and peril in an ultra-connected worldMar 09, 2014 8:13 am - BARCELONA, Spain - We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers...
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Facebook expands server farm in SwedenMar 08, 2014 2:38 pm - STOCKHOLM - Facebook plans to build a new data center at its server farm in northern Sweden, less than a year after opening the plant, its first outside the United State...
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Privacy advocates want Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp haltedMar 08, 2014 2:38 pm - WASHINGTON - When 450 million WhatsApp subscribers signed up for the mobile messaging service, they probably never thought their personal data might one day be shared wi...
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Twitter paid $36 million for 900 IBM patentsMar 08, 2014 10:51 pm - Twitter Inc., the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from International Business Machines Corp...
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Twitter installing log cabins at headquartersMar 08, 2014 6:00 am - NOVATO, Calif. — Employees at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco will soon get to take their lunch break in 19th century relics. The Marin Independent Journal repor...
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Facebook is paying for a beat copMar 09, 2014 8:13 am - When you see a cop on the street in the U.S., your mind might go a lot of places, but you're probably not wondering who's paying her. Police salaries in the U.S. come ou...
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Gadget Watch: Fastlane in Nokia X shows promiseMar 09, 2014 8:13 am - BARCELONA, Spain — By design, Nokia's new Android smartphones will underwhelm users of high-end phones. The Nokia X line was created with emerging markets in mind, so th...
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Russia warns heavier sanctions could backfireMar 09, 2014 8:13 am - WASHINGTON - Underlying the talk about taking harsh punitive measures against Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine are economic complications and worries that ...
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Austin tech firm had 20 employees on missing planeMar 09, 2014 9:13 am - AUSTIN, Texas - An Austin, Texas, technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea. Jacey ...