Marketplace Morning Report for Friday, March 22, 2013

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Casual dining takes a backseat to more informal restaurant chains. Mississippi River mayors unite to fight for federal infrastructure funding. And it's going to be another long weekend in Cyprus as the country's government scrambles to come up with a new bailout plan. How are countries around the continent reacting?

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PODCAST: Dude, what's in a Dell?

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Jeremy Hobson
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Mar 22, 2013
Drillers and environmental organizations try to set fracking standards together. As Dell looks to go private, what is the company worth? And, the latest on Cyprus.
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A tax on medical devices that almost nobody likes

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Sabri Ben-Achour
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Mar 22, 2013
You don't often hear about a 79-to-20 vote in the U.S. Senate, but that's exactly what happened last night. The chamber voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax on medical devices.
Posted In: Affordable Care Act, health care, health care reform law
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Cyprus gets a hard line from Germany

Interview with
Steve Evans
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Mar 22, 2013
The BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin discuses how Germany and its upcoming elections figure into the situation in Cyprus.
Posted In: cyprus, Germany, Angela Merkel
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As Dell looks to go private, what's its value?

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David Gura
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Mar 22, 2013
Founder Michael Dell looks to take his company private. The deadline for competing bids is today.
Posted In: Dell, Tech
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Mississippi River mayors call for more dam, lock funding

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Adam Allington
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Mar 22, 2013
Mayors along the Mississippi River say more funding is needed to shore up aging infrastructure.
Posted In: Mississippi River, Congress, infrastructure
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Drillers and enviros try to set fracking standards together

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Scott Tong
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Mar 22, 2013
Can natural-gas companies and environmental groups together set standards for fracking that will win the public's trust? An experiment in Pennsylvania will try.
Posted In: fracking, shale gas, energy, Oil
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Mastercard's goes digital with e-wallet 'Masterpass'

Interview by
David Brancaccio
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Mar 22, 2013
Could electronic wallets become as common as cellphones? Paypal and Google sure hope so. But Mastercard has a plan for this future, too.
Posted In: mastercard, digital wallet, paypal
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Federal government takes on domestic drone legislation

Interview by
David Brancaccio
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Mar 22, 2013
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee has been looking into the use of drones in America and how they might affect privacy. The federal government is working on new rules that could expand permits for drones in the coming years.
Posted In: drones, Law, Tech
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Sit down, eat out? Not so much.

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Mitchell Hartman
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Mar 21, 2013
Darden Restaurants, owners of casual dining chains Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse, saw profit fall 18 percent last quarter as sales slipped almost 5 percent.
Posted In: food and drink, restaurants

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