Business Stories from February 25, 2012 (Change date)
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Merkel ally confident on Greek bailout voteFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - BERLIN — A senior ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday he is confident that Germany’s governing coalition will strongly back the new Greek rescue package in Parl...
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Casinos’ anti-compulsive bet programs vary widelyFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As lost weekends go, this one was a doozy. The woman and her longtime boyfriend, regular Atlantic City gamblers, lost $100,00...
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Dow 13,000 is a big number, but it’s just a numberFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Big, round numbers are hard to ignore. That’s why we pay attention when the odometer clicks over to 100,000 miles, and why the world threw a party at the dawn of 2000 in...
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Official: G-20 to link IMF hike to bigger EU fundFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - MEXICO CITY — The G-20 nations are set to condition additional funding for the International Monetary Fund on the European Union first increasing its financial stabiliza...
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Auto town on the mend, but bailout still dividesFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - KOKOMO, Ind. — Back in this town’s darkest days, Jeff Shrock, a third-generation autoworker, would cruise down the streets where he grew up, past the foreclosed homes an...
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Gulf oil spill trial delayed for settlement talksFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Associated Press A judge is pushing back the federal trial over the nation’s worst offshore oil disaster by a week, saying Sunday that BP PLC was making some progress in...
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Facebook insiders limit IPO by pushing $100 billion valueFeb 25, 2012 7:03 am - Facebook Inc. is already trading like a public company as insiders and wealthy investors use private marketplaces to buy and sell stock in the social-networking company ...
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Cable companies shut down interactive ad ventureFeb 25, 2012 7:03 am - NEW YORK — The country’s largest cable TV companies are shutting down the bulk of a venture that let viewers interact with TV ads, laying off 120 employees. Four-year-ol...
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What’s next for the Soul Train brand?Feb 25, 2012 7:01 am - WASHINGTON - Before the death of Don Cornelius stirred pangs of “Soul Train” nostalgia in the American public, a group of black entrepreneurs already had begun working t...
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Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosuresFeb 25, 2012 6:31 am - SAN FRANCISCO — California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive inform...
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