Business Stories from June 18, 2011 (Change date)
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Storytelling can help you land your next jobJun 18, 2011 11:00 pm - West suburban workshop helps participants please an interviewer's brain—through stories. Jenny McCarthy (name changed on request) was14 months unemployed and becoming mo...
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Beyond ‘.com,’ names for Antarctica, Urdu and moreJun 18, 2011 7:00 am - Unless you’re a Luddite, you’re bound to know of “.com,” the Internet’s most common address suffix. You’ve also probably heard of “.gov,” for U.S. government sites, and ...
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Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for nowJun 18, 2011 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — It’s starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go ...
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Cheap e-book readers at a glanceJun 18, 2011 7:00 am - Five cheap e-readers with monochrome screens and Wi-Fi: Ÿ Barnes & Noble Nook — $139, 7.5 oz. Touch screen. Value score: 9 out of 10. Ÿ Kobo eReader Touch Edition — $130...
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Comcast’s $4.4B Olympian bid a bold online betJun 18, 2011 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — NBC lost more than $200 million the last time it showed the Winter Olympics, and it’s bracing for similar losses in London next year. So, plenty of people ...
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Review: Google’s Chromebook evokes warmth for WindowsJun 18, 2011 6:00 am - It isn’t often you come across a computer that makes you wish it ran Microsoft Windows. The new Chromebook Series 5 laptop manages that impressive feat. The Chromebook, ...
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Copious looks to be the eBay of the Facebook eraJun 18, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — A group of Silicon Valley veterans is building a shopping service around the idea that Facebook’s real-identity system is good for building trust in online co...
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5 e-book readers for less than $175Jun 18, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — When Amazon.com’s groundbreaking Kindle e-book reader came out in 2007, it cost $399. Now, some e-readers, including the most recent Kindle entry, can be had ...
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Engineer chases restaurant dream after layoffJun 18, 2011 6:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Like many men, Randy Gelsthorpe dreamed of one day owning his own bar and restaurant. When his employer, Electrolux, announced early last year that i...
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Study: Risky online behavior commonJun 18, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Big companies such as Citigroup and Sony have been the targets of major hacking attacks. Yet a new survey finds that regular people are also prime and often u...
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