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Samsung takes the floor at Best Buy
Sally Herships | Apr 4, 2013Smartphone maker Samsung announces it's opening a branded store of its own -- inside the big box retailer.
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Political intelligence or insider trading?
Nancy Marshall-Genzer | Apr 4, 2013The Government Accountability Office is releasing a new report on the so-called 'political intelligence' industry -- a growing arm of investment research.
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Oil spills, pipelines, and angry environmentalists, oh my!
Scott Tong | Apr 4, 2013The latest oil spill in Arkansas has environmentalists up in arms over how Big Oil transports their product.
PODCAST: Japan's bond buy, Newark school ties
Mark Garrison | Apr 4, 2013Japan central bank hopes a bold bond buy will solve an old problem. The high costs of Dementia are rising. And what is Mark Zuckerberg's donation to Newark public schools doing?
Quarterly job cuts highest since 2011
Mark Garrison | Apr 4, 2013Global outplacement firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas reported that employers cut 49,000 jobs in March, down 11 percent from February. Despite the month to month decline, job cuts for the first quarter were their highest since 2011.
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Dementia is highest cost disease and rising
Dan Gorenstein | Apr 4, 2013A report in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine says the U.S. spends more on treating dementia than any other disease including cancer and heart disease.
Japan central bank hopes a bold bond buy will solve an old problem
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes | Apr 4, 2013Japan is fed up with deflation and a sluggish economy, and its central bank is getting aggressive. Today, the Bank of Japan launched a sweeping bond-buying program to pump money into the economy.
Jamaican power company reacts to electricity theft
Nick Davis | Apr 4, 2013Power costs in Jamaica are among the highest in the Caribbean. Many poor people have devised ways to get their supply free and illegally. Now the utility company is cracking down on this theft.
NIH director welcomes BRAIN initiative
David Brancaccio | Apr 4, 2013National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins says government funding is the best way to support large scientific enterprises and fundamental health advances.
As the cellphone turns 40, the story behind the famous first call
David Brancaccio | Apr 4, 201340 years ago the cellphone was invented by Martin Cooper at Motorola, much to the dismay of a competing team at AT&T's Bell Labs.
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