Business Stories from February 20, 2012 (Change date)
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Cars.com Cares awards $100,000 to SADDFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — Cars.com announced that Students Against Destructive Decisions is the recipient of a $100,000 donation from Cars.com Cares, the site’s corporate giving initiat...
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Holiday spending pushes Macy’s 4Q profit higherFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Macy’s Inc. said strong holiday and online sales helped push its fiscal fourth-quarter net income up 12 percent. The department store chain’s results topped W...
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Grubb & Ellis agrees to sell itself in bankruptcy caseFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Grubb & Ellis Co., a U.S. real estate services company, filed for bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell almost all its assets to BGC Partners Inc. The company yesterd...
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Greek bailout wards off disaster — for nowFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - BRUSSELS — A second, €130 billion ($172 billion) bailout and a deep debt write-off for financially stricken Greece will ward off a financial disaster in Europe. Economis...
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Justice gives up sting case over foreign bribesFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — In an embarrassing setback, the Justice Department gave up Tuesday on its high-profile prosecution of nearly two dozen businessmen charged in the first unde...
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Teva said to pay $250 million to end colonoscopy hepatitis casesFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. will pay more than $250 million to settle more than 80 lawsuits alleging the drugmaker sold the anesthetic Propofol in a way that led...
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Russian search engine Yandex teams up with TwitterFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - MOSCOW — Russia's top search engine Yandex said Tuesday it has teamed up with Twitter to allow the Russian firm to show the full feed of all public Twitter posts. The de...
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Mazda falls after report of capital increaseFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Mazda Motor Corp., the most unprofitable among Japan’s eight biggest carmakers, fell the most in almost a year in Tokyo trading after NHK Television reported the company...
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Ohio college selects NanoProfessor curriculumFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - SKOKIE — North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio has purchased the Nanoscience Education Program curriculum from NanoProfessor, the education division of NanoInk ...
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FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug shortagesFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. Federal regulators said Tuesday that they’ve approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages — at least for the time being —...