Business Stories from May 26, 2014 (Change date)
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McDonald's Happy Meal character spurs alarmMay 29, 2014 5:37 am - A new McDonald's Corp. character named Happy is inspiring a different emotion among Twitter users: fear. The box-shaped creature - with Gumby-like arms, eyes that pop ou...
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8 management lessons from the firing at the New York TimesMay 27, 2014 8:26 am - While few people agree on just about any aspect of Jill Abramson's dismissal as executive editor of The New York Times, there's general consensus on this: The company di...
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Owner mines LinkedIn for connections, prospectsMay 26, 2014 5:00 am - Ned Miller is a LinkedIn believer, calling the business social media site “a God send for the small business owner.” Miller, though, doesn't use the social media site to...
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Geneva's Bike Medic of Geneva rolls into its 20th yearMay 27, 2014 5:39 am - An interview with Mike Palombi, owner of The Bike Medic based in Geneva. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: I provide bicycle repair and maintenance by appo...
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From New York to Hoffman, engineer opts for baking breadMay 27, 2014 9:11 am - Chris Wu went from helping to construct major buildings in New York to baking bread in Hoffman Estates. He and his wife Heather opened the Great Harvest Bread Co. in Ma...
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Auto parts price-fixing probe rattles industryMay 27, 2014 8:26 am - WASHINGTON - An investigation into price-fixing and bid-rigging in the auto parts industry has mushroomed into the Justice Department's largest criminal antitrust probe ...
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Pfizer pulls plug on push to buy AstraZenecaMay 27, 2014 8:26 am - Pfizer said Monday that it does not intend to make a takeover offer for British drugmaker AstraZeneca, pulling the plug for now on what would have been the largest deal ...
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Hacking case belies profitable U.S. links with ChinaMay 27, 2014 8:26 am - WASHINGTON - China may be trying to steal trade secrets from U.S. businesses, as federal prosecutors allege. Yet for many U.S. companies, China's vast market remains an ...
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Prosecutors: Hacker helped thwart 300 cyberattacksMay 27, 2014 8:30 am - NEW YORK - A prolific computer hacker who infiltrated the servers of major corporations later switched sides and helped the government disrupt hundreds of cyberattacks o...
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Europe's move to rein in Google would stall in U.S.May 27, 2014 12:35 pm - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Europe's moves to rein in Google — including a court ruling this month ordering the search giant to give people a say in what pops up when someon...
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