Information Technology
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GE takes stake in First SolarAug 06, 2013 4:16 pm - NEW YORK — GE and First Solar, Inc. will join their competing thin-film solar panel technologies in an effort to improve efficiency and decrease costs. The companies an...
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AT&T moves 3,000 jobs from Hoffman Estates to Chicago, other suburbsAug 06, 2013 11:56 am - AT&T announced Tuesday it will vacate its 22-year-old Hoffman Estates campus, scattering about 3,000 jobs to sites in Schaumburg, Lisle, Arlington Heights and Chicag...
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Wheaton paves the way for AT&T U-verse serviceAug 06, 2013 5:00 am - Wheaton residents and businesses are now likely months away from having more choices regarding their telephone, television and Internet providers. City council members M...
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Tablet shipments slow with no new iPadAug 05, 2013 4:40 pm - NEW YORK — Worldwide shipments of tablet computers slowed down in the second quarter because Apple didn’t release a new model of its trend-setting iPad, research firm ID...
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Amazon CEO to buy Washington PostAug 05, 2013 4:33 pm - Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos agreed to buy the Washington Post for $250 million, vaulting the e-commerce magnate into the struggling newspaper indu...
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Facebook hires Google executive as chief marketing officerAug 05, 2013 1:19 pm - Facebook Inc. hired Gary Briggs, a veteran of Google Inc. and EBay Inc., to be its first chief marketing officer as the world’s largest social network seeks to expand it...
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Wheaton considers allowing AT&T to increase service areaAug 05, 2013 7:00 am - Wheaton City Council members Monday are expected to decide whether to approve local ordinance changes that would allow AT&T to offer it's U-verse Internet, television an...
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Education innovation blooms in recession’s wakeAug 04, 2013 6:47 am - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On a warm spring evening, hundreds of investment bankers, venture capitalists and geeky tech entrepreneurs gathered near the pool of the Phoenician, ...
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Apple gets reprieve, can continue IPhone 4 salesAug 03, 2013 5:24 pm - 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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Oil companies frack in coastal waters off CaliforniaAug 03, 2013 2:09 pm - 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...