Business Stories from October 26, 2013 (Change date)
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Displaced Niles animal shelter coming to Des PlainesOct 26, 2013 10:00 pm - An animal shelter left without a home after a school bus crashed into its Niles facility will open a new location in Des Plaines. Wright Way Rescue will be moving into t...
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IRS says 330,000 have gotten results on insurance websiteOct 26, 2013 8:35 pm - WASHINGTON — Despite the technical problems plaguing many of the new health insurance websites, the federal government has delivered 330,000 premium subsidy calculations...
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Beast of a weed creeping up from SouthOct 26, 2013 2:44 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — It’s a beast of a weed, creeping north into the Midwest from cotton country. Palmer amaranth can shoot up as high as 7 feet, and just one plant can produce...
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City asks utility to cut its coal relianceOct 26, 2013 2:23 pm - ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the city launched an ambitious plan to slash its carbon footprint, a major obstacle stood in its way: A massive coal-fired plant on the edge of to...
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Schaumburg entertainment district tax plan splits panelOct 26, 2013 8:00 am - Taxing bodies and a citizen representative were deadlocked Friday on Schaumburg’s proposed tax increment finance district to spur redevelopment near the Convention Cente...
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Amazon bets on ‘Betas’ to turn web viewers into shoppersOct 26, 2013 7:50 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com’s new comedy show “Betas” depicts a motley band of twenty-something Silicon Valley entrepreneurs coding around the clock to develop a social-m...
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Review: Refinements add up in new Mac systemOct 26, 2013 7:40 am - SAN FRANCISCO — There isn’t one thing that jumps out with Apple’s new Mac operating system, known as Mavericks — and that’s a good thing. Mavericks has plenty of modest ...
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Health site merely another item on list of federal tech messesOct 26, 2013 7:33 am - Why have other troubled government computer efforts, such as one shut down last year after losing $1 billion, never gotten the attention and vitriol being showered on He...
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Broken Windows patched with tweaks, tabletsOct 26, 2013 7:21 am - Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Surface tablet computers haven’t exactly been roaring successes. Personal computer sales have slumped industrywide since the new operating syst...
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STMicro loss adds to evidence of shift to cheaper smartphonesOct 26, 2013 7:18 am - STMicroelectronics NV, Europe’s biggest semiconductor maker, said chip demand is taking a hit as smartphone manufacturers trim orders, adding to testimony of weakening a...
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