Business Stories from October 6, 2018 (Change date)
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As joblessness falls, skilled workers might be hard to findOct 06, 2018 7:00 am - Are America's employers at risk of running out of skilled people to hire? The U.S. economy has become a seemingly perpetual job-generating machine, having steadily added...
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Review: The Apple Watch faces its toughest challenge yet: GrandmaOct 06, 2018 1:17 am - Is the new Apple Watch ready for Grandma? The Series 4 Apple Watch now in stores pitches itself as a Food and Drug Administration-cleared "proactive health monitor" and ...
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Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memoryOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - A new font can help lodge information deeper in your brain, researchers say, but it's not magic - just the science of effort. Psychology and design researchers at RMIT U...
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How legalized sports gambling could create a new kind of fan experienceOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - Ted Leonsis was never a gambler. An entrepreneur, a businessman, a philanthropist, an investor - but never much of a gambler. So he's perhaps an unlikely torchbearer for...
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What's in new proposed Internet Bill of Rights?Oct 06, 2018 1:08 am - WASHINGTON - By July of 2019, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., aims to see the House of Representatives pass landmark legislation shielding consumers from the onslaught of data...
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What does it take to be Wikipedia's MVP? 2.5M editsOct 06, 2018 1:05 am - Steven Pruitt has more than 2.5 million edits to Wikipedia articles to his credit. Yes, 2.5 million. That's a lot of editing to a lot of articles, so you'd understand if...
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Illinois 200: Caterpillar's long central Illinois history, and its HQ move to the suburbsOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Peoria wasn't always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop. A bond developed be...
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Mainstream advertising still showing up on polarizing, misleading sites despite efforts to stop itOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Jihadi rapists. Muslim invaders. Faked mass shootings. Pizzagate. Somebody browsing highly partisan websites in recent weeks could have seen articles about all of these ...
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Dragalia Lost — first Nintendo built-from-scratch mobile game — off to weak startOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Nintendo Co.'s experiment with a built-from-scratch mobile game is off to an underwhelming start. Dragalia Lost, released last week, is the company's first smartphone ti...
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Lombard retail center sells for $920KOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - LOMBARD - Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the United States and Canada, has sold a 11,500-square-foot multi...
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