Oak Brook Business
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Microsoft scores with 'Halo 3' salesOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Microsoft said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 23 percent as brisk sales of the new "Halo 3" video game, Windows and Office, all of which helped...
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State allows AT&T to offer TV serviceOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - The Illinois Commerce Commission gave the final nod Wednesday so AT&T can begin its statewide rollout of its U-verse video service -- a bone of contention with some subu...
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Navistar eyes GM's truck business, restates '03, '04 earningsOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - WARRENVILLE -- Truck maker Navistar International Corp. said Thursday it is in talks to buy General Motors Corp.'s medium-duty truck business. The disclosure came as the...
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Streamwood trustee aboard inaugural A380 flightOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - Streamwood village trustee Jason Speer just took the most expensive roundtrip flight of his life for $9,000. And it was just for fun. Don't worry, he's not using village...
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Briefs: SSS Research works on intelligence planOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - LISLE -- SSS Research announced it is working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide key software as part of its NGA Earth eGeoInt project. Under th...
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Builder believes troubled times may soon endOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Bulldozers at Neumann Homes projects went silent this week. Hammers slid back into carpenter belts. Sales people went home. As Neumann Homes confirmed it will file for C...
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Market downturn roughs up TellabsOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Tellabs Chief Executive Krish Prabhu said Tuesday the Naperville company still could be bought out, despite its third-quarter profit that plunged about 90 percent. "The...
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Briefs: Westell invests in software firmOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - AURORA -- Westell Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it invested about $2.5 million in Contineo Systems, a communications software company. Plano, Texas-based Contineo devel...
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Briefs: Wal-Mart cuts supercenter plansOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - W NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores cut its capital expenditure forecast Tuesday and scaled back on planned supercenters as the world's largest retailer grapples with slowing ...
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Experts advise recent Neumann buyersOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - When a company files bankruptcy, what's a consumer to do? Stand in line with a claim against the company, along with all the other creditors at bankruptcy court. That is...