Elmhurst Business
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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...
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Motorola shows the future ways we'll use technologyOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Motorola Inc. may be stinging from Apple's successful touch-access iPhone and Nokia's stranglehold on the global cell phone market. So what's it going to do? Diversify, ...
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Briefs: DeVry moving classes within ElginOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - ELGIN -- DeVry University announced Thursday it is moving its Elgin location to accommodate the addition of undergraduate degree programs. The new location on Randall Po...
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Briefs: Nordstrom Rack set on NapervilleOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NAPERVILLE -- Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc., a fashion specialty retailer, announced that it will open a 38,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store at Springbrook Prairie Pa...
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Briefs: Airline flight delays lower in AugustOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. airlines improved their on-time flight arrival rate to 71.7 percent in August, a small increase from July, which ranked as one of the industry's worst...
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Motorola details layoff expensesOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. has spent around $343 million for severance and other costs related to eliminating 5,100 jobs so far this year, the company said in a fili...
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Verizon unveils cell phone to rival Apple iPhoneOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- In time for the holidays, Verizon Wireless is launching a cell phone that looks a lot like the hottest phone so far this year: Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Like the ...
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State unemployment above U.S. averageOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The Illinois unemployment rate in August rose to 5.4 percent, up 0.9 percentage points from the year-earlier 4.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Accord...
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'Toad' sings boxcar bluesOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - [LA201 Double Recall] Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- The first recall was bad enough: A million-plus "Thomas & Friends" toys pulled because of lead paint. The second wa...
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McDonald's reportedly set to add cappuccinosOct 01, 2007 11:00 pm - McDonald's Corp. plans to make specialty coffee drinks available in all of its U.S. restaurants by the end of 2008, according to a published report Monday. The world's l...