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Wal-Mart builds, destroys. Giveth, taketh away. For everything, turn turn turn, there is a Wal-Mart, turn turn turn.
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Aug 10, 2011
The enormous discount retailer and blue vest promotional organization is trying to get around Apple's strict rules. Wal-Mart is bringing its Vudu...
The robots are coming! Or, how to spoil a pefectly nice dance party.
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Aug 1, 2011
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and iPads, is reportedly planning to "hire" 1 million robots to take on the boring,...
Wal-Mart joins the streaming movie party
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Jul 27, 2011
Tuesday, Wal-Mart announced it would start streaming movies, thanks to the streaming service Vudu, which the big box retailer acquired last year....
National Labor Relations Board going after Reuters in Twitter case
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Apr 7, 2011
An employee of Thomson Reuters tweeted something critical of her company's management. Now the NLRB will file a complaint against Thomson Reuters...
The best and worst cities for jobs
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Sep 21, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department will release its February jobs report on Friday. And that got us thinking about - location, location, location. The...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Mixed job indicators, changes to home loan requirements
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Mar 2, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department releases its monthly jobs report Friday, but other key job indicators give us a sense of what to expect. Job placement...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Academy Awards, Groupon, Walmart, and gas prices
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Feb 28, 2011
The Brits were the big winners at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held last night at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. British film "The King's Speech...
Support for labor unions vs. support for big corporations
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Sep 21, 2011
These final notes today. First of all, a follow-up to our item earlier this week about the guy in Philadelphia who's trying to foreclose on Wells...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Sanofi-Aventis buys Genzyme, inflation is up for January
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Feb 16, 2011
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis announced this morning that it will buy American biotech firm Genzyme -- bringing to end over six...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Chevron's $9 billion fine; NYSE merges with Deutsche Boerse; daily deal overdose
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Feb 15, 2011
An Ecuadorean judge has fined American oil company Chevron for more than $9 billion in a case that has spanned a decade. The lawsuit began in 1990s...
