Des Plaines Business
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Motorola unveils U9 phoneOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Motorola will start selling the U9 music phone outside the U.S. this year, taking on devices from Apple and Nokia. The U9 will go on sale in Asia, Latin America and Euro...
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Lunt warns of closureOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Chinese magnesium, a U.S. trade ruling and Detroit automakers rocked an entire metallic industry in recent years and may combine to fell one of this area's jewels of man...
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Birck says state holds back tech industryOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The chairman of Tellabs said Thursday a poor primary and secondary educational system in Illinois along with an anti-business environment have caused the technology indu...
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Local photographer celebrates 20 years behind the cameraOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Dale Horn started his photography business from the basement of his mother's Arlington Heights home on Vail Street 20 years ago. Horn, 47, now operates his growing busin...
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Briefs: Integrated Parking Solutions hires VPOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS -- Integrated Parking Solutions Inc., designer and developer of wireless parking technology, announced the appointment of Richard J. Malcolm as vice pr...
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Naperville workers rest easilyOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Strikers at the Chrysler parts distribution center in Naperville on Wednesday celebrated the end of the roughly six-hour walkout. Hugo Donado, president of UAW Local 117...
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Briefs: Sears opens new outlet storeOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - HOFFMAN ESTATES -- Sears announced the opening of a new Sears Outlet store in Bridgeview, which will feature brand names in appliances, big screen TVs, mattresses and mo...
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Kitchen business remodeledOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - Jeff Schreiber, who has been in the kitchen remodeling industry for 25 years, recently moved his business closer to home. Schreiber, who resides in Hawthorn Woods, reloc...
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From the 'brick' to the RazrOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - They changed the world -- in about 13 weeks. About 35 years ago, a team of Motorola Inc. engineers and others created the first portable cell phone called the DynaTAC. I...
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Briefs: Activist investor buys Sears stockOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - HOFFMAN ESTATES -- Shares in Sears Holdings Corp. rose sharply Friday as Wall Street reacted to news that activist hedge fund manager William Ackman has taken a stake in...