Business Stories from May 30, 2014 (Change date)
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Are the Clippers really worth $2 billion?May 31, 2014 5:34 pm - A high-profile NBA franchise in a major media market was suddenly available. A handful of power brokers from the technology, entertainment and venture capital fields wer...
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Mobile vendors in Libertyville to shift from public to private propertyMay 31, 2014 6:31 pm - A pending change to the Libertyville village code would allow mobile vendors to operate on private properties, but it would also eliminate the summer tradition of ice cr...
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Zuckerberg, wife gift $120M to CA schoolsMay 31, 2014 9:28 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to the San Francisco Bay Area's public school system. The coupl...
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U. of Illinois leads Farm Bill education coalitionMay 30, 2014 11:00 am - CHAMPAIGN - The University of Illinois will lead one of two coalitions announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop online tools to inform farmers and othe...
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What to do with all those unearthed Atari games?May 31, 2014 9:28 am - ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - Officials in southeastern New Mexico began work on a plan this week to divide a cache of Atari video games dug up from an old landfill last month. Jo...
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Japan tax hike lifts inflation to 23-year highMay 31, 2014 9:28 am - TOKYO - Japan's consumer prices rose 3.2 percent from a year earlier in April to the highest level since 1991, the government said Friday, largely due to a sales tax inc...
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GOP House backs state medical marijuana lawsMay 31, 2014 9:28 am - WASHINGTON - Libertarian-minded and moderate Republicans joined forces early Friday morning with Democrats in an early morning House vote to block the federal governmen...
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United agrees to $6.15M settlement with pilotsMay 30, 2014 4:18 pm - Chicago-based United Airlines is paying $6.15 million to settle a lawsuit by pilots who claimed that the airline underpaid for contributions to their pension accounts wh...
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Cops stake out Dunkin' Donuts in Third Lake to raise money for charityMay 30, 2014 4:26 pm - When the Lake County Tactical Response Team truck rolls in, there's a big job to be done - and that's just what was needed Friday morning in Third Lake. About 20 members...
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Apple's Beats buy is two-sided for music streamingMay 31, 2014 9:28 am - Apple's $3 billion purchase of headphone maker and streaming music company Beats Electronics sheds light on a rarely recognized reality in the music-streaming industry: ...