Business Stories from December 29, 2007 (Change date)
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Clearwire card offers speedy Web access -- on highwayDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - SEATTLE -- My cell phone rang just as I pulled my car into a park along the Puget Sound. I needed to add something to a news story I had written a few hours earlier, but...
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Movers and shakersDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Movers and Shakers Schaumburg resident David Lyke was appointed chief operating officer of the Albany Park Community Center, Chicago. Lyke, who joined the agency in earl...
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Reality TV star or CEO? Line blurred in 2007Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Could any reality TV show rival the swift falls and ignominious exits of top executives in 2007? Call it "MBAs Gone Wild" or "Survivor: Wall Street," since t...
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Sony turns off rear-projection TVs to focus on new technologyDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - TOKYO -- Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat-panel technologies -- liquid crystal display, or LCD, and organic l...
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Take on the tickerDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - David Klein, senior vice president/financial consultant, RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., Vernon Hills The Benazir Bhutto assassination negatively impacted the market. What do yo...
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Tech 2008: greener, more vividDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - A more intense wireless experience, eco-friendly devices and a push for more high-definition television offerings are among technology predictions for 2008. Here is what...
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Dell's all-in-one PC has the guts to compete with iMacDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. ...
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Mercury Finance head serving time with RyanDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - John Brincat shed tears when the judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison in May for his part in the biggest criminal corporate accounting fraud case in the Illinois hi...
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Recession looms like a specter for 2008Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Whether it happens or not, the "R word" today is one of the most analyzed economic prospects for the new year. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the ri...
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University sees fundraising as an art formDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Fisk University, a historically black school on the brink financially, is sitting on a lottery ticket it can't cash: a remarkable collection of 19th-...
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