Business Stories from February 28, 2013 (Change date)
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Ford to sell cars, trucks in MyanmarFeb 28, 2013 8:41 pm - YANGON, Myanmar — Ford Motor Co. has signed a deal to distribute cars and pickup trucks in Myanmar, the head of Ford’s local partner said. The automaker’s first showroom...
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Facebook buying Atlas ad business from MicrosoftFeb 28, 2013 4:57 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is buying a set of online advertising tools called Atlas from Microsoft in its latest attempt to build a more effective marketing system around ...
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Columbia College career fair:Feb 28, 2013 4:53 pm - Columbia College of Missouri-Lake County hosts a career fair on Thursday, March 21, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the school at 1225 Tri-State Parkway, Suite 506 in Gurnee. For co...
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Struggling Groupon ousts CEO Andrew MasonFeb 28, 2013 3:45 pm - NEW YORK — Struggling online deals pioneer Groupon has ousted its quirky founder and CEO Andrew Mason amid worries that people are tiring of the myriad of online restaur...
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Dow edges near record, then sputters; stocks downFeb 28, 2013 3:12 pm - NEW YORK — It came oh so close. The Dow Jones industrial average came within 15 points of its all-time high Thursday afternoon. But the momentum petered out, and the Do...
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Google CFO: Will cling to cash for acquisitionsFeb 28, 2013 1:06 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s chief financial officer says the company plans to cling to its steadily growing stash of cash to pay for potential acquisitions and other invest...
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BP exec back on the stand in oil spill trialFeb 28, 2013 12:49 pm - NEW ORLEANS — An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t explore whether upper-level management had a role in causing the disaster because i...
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AFSCME, Quinn’s office reach tentative agreementFeb 28, 2013 10:49 am - Illinois’ largest union and Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration reached a tentative contract agreement Thursday, averting the threat of the first state worker strike in deca...
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One woman’s escape from a hacked email accountFeb 28, 2013 9:52 am - Will the real Kelly Brown please email us back? Kelly Brown, owner of Four Seasons Redesign in Sleepy Hollow, awoke Monday to find her Yahoo account for her business had...
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Weekly U.S. unemployment aid claims drop to 344KFeb 28, 2013 9:39 am - WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell 22,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 344,000, evidence that the job market may be picking up. The...
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