Business Stories from August 3, 2013 (Change date)
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Apple gets reprieve, can continue IPhone 4 salesAug 04, 2013 8:09 am - Apple Inc. can continue selling its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G in the U.S. after receiving a reprieve from an import ban won by Samsung Electronics Co. in a patent- infringe...
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New jobs disproportionately low-pay or part-timeAug 04, 2013 8:09 am - WASHINGTON — The 162,000 jobs the economy added in July were a disappointment. The quality of the jobs was even worse. A disproportionate number of the added jobs were p...
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Oil companies frack in coastal waters off CaliforniaAug 04, 2013 8:09 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Companies prospecting for oil off California’s coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed...
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Old tobacco playbook returns with e-cigarettesAug 04, 2013 8:09 am - RICHMOND, Va. — Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to...
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Red Sox owner enters $70 million deal for Boston GlobeAug 04, 2013 8:24 am - BOSTON — Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from it...
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CBS, Time Warner in talksAug 04, 2013 8:09 am - Time Warner Cable and CBS say they are trying to settle a fee dispute that has left three million customers without the network’s programs. A Time Warner spokeswoman say...
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Students to explore filmmaking with Google GlassAug 04, 2013 8:24 am - LOS ANGELES — Beauty is in the eye of the Google Glass wearer. At least that’s what the Internet search giant hopes a handful of young filmmakers will discover. Google ...
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Facebook said to plan to sell tv-style ads for $2.5 MillionAug 03, 2013 8:11 pm - Facebook Inc., seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 millio...
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Facebook draws more young prime-time viewers than major networksAug 04, 2013 8:24 am - Facebook Inc., the largest social- networking company, attracts more 18- to 24-year-old people during prime-time viewing hours than any of four major television networks...
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Netflix clones in Russia get a head start with piracy lawAug 03, 2013 5:48 pm - Russia is seeking to shed its image as a hub for pirated movies and become the next hot market for legal online video, a boon for local services trying to lure users bef...
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