Business Stories from June 9, 2011 (Change date)
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Buffett lunch auction likely to set new recordJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. — The price of a private lunch with revered investor Warren Buffett might top last year's winning bid of $2.6 million and set a new record for the most expen...
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Attorney general calls cybercrime urgent problemJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - HAMMOND, Ind. — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the increasing frequency of Internet-based crime is one of the most urgent and complex challenges the country face...
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Qualcomm to buy small maker of chip design toolsJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Inc. said on Friday that it has agreed to buy Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based company that makes tools for chip design. It did not disclose the ...
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Germany lifts food warning for cucumbers, lettuceJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Vegetable sprouts caused the E. coli infection that has killed at least 27 people, and Germans can resume eating lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes, the nation's disease-co...
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Spain nabs 3 suspected of global cyber attacksJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - MADRID — Spanish police have arrested three suspected computer hackers who allegedly belonged to a loose-knit international activist group that attacked corporate and go...
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Utility reprimanded over 2 workers' high radiationJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - TOKYO — The operator of Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant was reprimanded Friday and told to investigate how two workers were exposed to radiation levels more ...
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Boeing cuts ribbon on $750 million SC plantJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley and state officials have joined hundreds of Boeing workers in North Charleston to cut the ribbon opening the Chicago-based comp...
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Pandora raises IPO offering price rangeJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — The popular Internet radio service Pandora raised the price range of its initial public offering on Friday by at least a third to between $10 and $12 That mea...
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Nuclear regulatory chief hid info to shut plantJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — While he apparently broke no laws, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withheld and manipulated information to make the case for shutting down the...
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Deerfield's Baxter Int. loses contaminated heparin caseJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - A Cook County jury has awarded $625,000 to the estate of a man given the blood thinner heparin from Deerfield-based Baxter International, Inc., that was contaminated wit...