Northbrook Business
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Technology report finds Illinois makes gainsApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois' technology industry is rising like the Phoenix, arising from the ashes to produce more jobs and more tech-related companies that settle here, a report is expec...
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Underwriters unit in Germany mergerApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - NORTHBROOK -- Underwriters Laboratories, a provider of product safety testing services, announced Tuesday its Management System Solutions business will merge with DQS, a...
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Motorola adds new Q colorsMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Motorola Inc. on Monday unveiled new color versions of its MotoQ smartphone -- licorice and lime -- that will be available by summer. The announcement was made on the fi...
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Daily Herald wins state photojournalism awardsMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Daily Herald photojournalists John Starks, Christopher Hankins and Steve Lundy earned top honors in the annual Illinois Best of Photojournalism contest last weekend in C...
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In-flight Internet access set to launchMar 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Business and leisure travelers soon will be able to go to their home Web pages, check e-mail and surf the Internet -- all while on a transcontinental flight. Itasca-bas...
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From Maxwell Street scavenger to millionaireMar 28, 2008 11:00 pm - William Kaper Jr. was 10 years old when he scavenged at the city dump at 31st Street and Cicero Avenue on Chicago's South Side. He could find just about anything -- a bi...
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How can Motorola make the next hit phone?Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Some people pick a mobile phone like a spouse. It has to be attractive with brains. But then some groups have special needs or demands: teens want text-messaging and mus...
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Area businessman Al Tinoly dies at 68Mar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - In 1998, two years after Roosevelt University opened the Robin campus in Schaumburg, Alfred J. Tinoly joined its community advisory board. Having earned his master's deg...
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Under the pressure, it finally cracksMar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Motorola Inc. intends to reinvigorate its floundering business by spinning itself off into two separate companies while still maintaining its suburban and Chicago operat...
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Diesel stalls area truckersMar 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Skyrocketing diesel prices along with the economic downturn are proving to be a one-two punch for the local trucking industry. Truckers and trucking companies are slowin...