Business Stories from August 27, 2011 (Change date)
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Review: Sifteo a fun but pricey new way to playAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — I am sliding three little cubes around my desk. My goal is to help a penguin named Booker collect a bunch of eggs and avoid being eaten by a horrific creature...
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Blackberry to synch with Android apps as RIM seeks sales boostAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - Rolling Meadows-based Research In Motion Ltd., seeking to boost the appeal of its BlackBerrys and revive slowing sales, plans to enable models expected next year to run ...
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Amazon brings new local deals site to more citiesAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its new local deals site to New York and other parts of the country, hoping discount-happy consumers will flock to its offer...
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7 products Steve Jobs got wrongAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty. Here are seven products created under his dir...
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Review: Apple fine-tunes MacBook Air, making best betterAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - Is it possible for any Apple Inc. product to suffer a lack of attention? Probably not, but if it were, it might be the recently revamped MacBook Air. Released at the sam...
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China becomes biggest PC marketAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — China has passed an important technological milestone: It became the world’s biggest consumer of PCs in the second quarter, according to new market resea...
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People and other magazines added to NookAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — People, Fortune and other leading magazines are coming to the Nook. Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced Tuesday that it had agreed with Time to make all 21 of its ...
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95-year-old tells the story of how Schaumburg beganAug 27, 2011 12:00 am - Palatine man remembers Pure Oil paving into farms in the '50s
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IMF chief urges U.S. policymakers to help economyAug 27, 2011 12:00 am - JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The new head of the International Monetary Fund urged U.S. policymakers to take more aggressive steps to stimulate the economy and ease the housing ...
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Refinery near Tripoli to restart, says officialAug 27, 2011 12:00 am - ZAWIYA, Libya — The largest refinery in Libya’s gasoline-starved west is set to restart operations within a day or two, an official at the facility said on Saturday. Moh...