Business Stories from February 23, 2013 (Change date)
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Dude, Where's my refund? IRS website overrunFeb 23, 2013 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has a message for taxpayers eager to learn the status of their tax refund: Please don't check the IRS website every five minute...
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The end of cheap airfareFeb 23, 2013 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Time to shed a tear into your tiny plastic cups of tomato juice, because the merger between US Airways and American Airlines announced last week marks the e...
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Smugglers still cashing in on Michigan can refundFeb 23, 2013 5:27 pm - LANSING, Mich. — Michigan lawmakers want to crack down on can and bottle smugglers they say are scamming Michigan for undeserved recycling refunds, corrupting a generous...
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Panama Canal project will bring huge ships to Eastern portsFeb 23, 2013 12:58 pm - NEWARK, N.J. — Residents of this city’s Ironbound neighborhood are familiar with big modes of transport. Jumbo jets fly so low while approaching Newark Airport that it s...
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Is Google ripping off Apple by opening own stores?Feb 23, 2013 7:22 am - Steve Jobs must be going thermonuclear in his grave. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography, the late Apple chief was so incensed at Google over its Android mobile ope...
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Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize dataFeb 23, 2013 7:14 am - Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reali...
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Commercial cyber spying offers rich payoffFeb 23, 2013 7:07 am - BEIJING — For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce...
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Yahoo redesign aims to make site more invitingFeb 23, 2013 6:56 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is renovating the main entry into its website in an effort to get people to visit more frequently and stay longer. The long-awaited makeover of Yah...
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HTC shows off new phone for ‘One’ lineFeb 23, 2013 6:46 am - NEW YORK — HTC Corp., the struggling Taiwanese maker of smartphones, is taking a page from longtime partner Microsoft Corp. as it launches a new phone under the One bran...
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NYPD, Microsoft create crime-fighting tech systemFeb 23, 2013 6:42 am - NEW YORK — A 911 call comes in about a possible bomb in lower Manhattan and an alert pops up on computer screens at the New York Police Department, instantly showing off...
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