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Blackberry e-mails for your Treo
Tess Vigeland | Oct 17, 2005Today Palm Pilot and Blackberry made nice. Marketplace's Tess Vigeland has more on the new cooperation between two longtime high tech rivals.
Making Katrina ends meet
John Dimsdale and Kai Ryssdal | Oct 17, 2005Lawmakers were back in Washington today with plenty to do. On the agenda? Cutting spending to deal with costs in Iraq and on the Gulf Coast. Marketplace's Washington bureau chief John Dimsdale talks to Kai Ryssdal.
All dressed up with no place to go
| Oct 17, 2005Mattel reported third quarter profits this morning: earnings dropped 12 percent. The world's largest toymaker is doing the best it can with its 40 year old Barbie. And Sandra Tsing Loh says Barbie is actually getting brainy.
Art for art's sake?
| Oct 17, 2005Tomorrow the finalists for the Turner Prize will have their work shown at the Tate Museum in London. How do we put a value on art? Dutch journalist Olav Velthius says there's actually a method to the art market.
Whoa, what's happening with GM?
| Oct 17, 2005General Motors reported a third quarter loss of $1.6 billion today, and it's selling off part of its most profitable division. Investors seemed to think that's OK. Bill Poorman from Michigan Radio has the story.
A generic Tamiflu
Helen Palmer | Oct 17, 2005A maker of generic drugs based in Mumbai plans to manufacture the Roche anti-viral Tamiflu — even though it's under patent protection for another 11 years. Helen Palmer reports from the Health Desk at WGBH.
TV Guide redesign hits stands
| Oct 17, 2005The iconic publication undergoes its makeover reveal today, reappearing as a glossy, large-format lifestyle and entertainment magazine. Andrea Gardner has the story.
Getting your goat
| Oct 17, 2005The tastes of immigrant groups in the US are creating demand for different kinds of food. And that's creating big opportunities for farmers. Patrick Hirsch reports.
Setting a place at Galatoire's
| Oct 17, 2005Melvin Rodrigue of New Orleans' legendary Galatoire's Restaurant talks to host Lisa Napoli about the challenge of doing business in the Crescent City post-Katrina.
The Sloan Sessions
| Oct 17, 2005Newsweek's Wall Street editor Allan Sloan talks to host Scott Jagow about the push by GM and Delphi for benefit concessions from the UAW.
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