Marketplace Morning Report for Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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• Oil executives to testify on offshore drilling

  by Marketplace Staff

  Top oil executives will converge on Capitol Hill today for a hearing on offshore drilling safety.

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• Houston sets billion-dollar plan for Astrodome

  by Marketplace Staff

  Houston officials unveiled a billion-dollar plan yesterday to repurpose the Houston Astrodome, the city's mega complex which has sat empty for years.

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• E3 2010: Microsoft, Sony get in on motion-control gaming

  by Bill Radke

  Bitmob editor and cofounder Dan "Shoe" Hsu tells us why motion-controlled video game consoles are big at E3 2010 and why 3-D games aren't there yet.

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• World Cup security guards strike in wage dispute

  by Gretchen Wilson

  World Cup security guards are protesting low wages with strikes in multiple host cities.

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• China invests in Greek shipping industry

  by Scott Tong

  Chinese officials in Athens are expected to announce the first of several investments in Greece's shipping and transportation sectors, which could be worth several billion dollars.

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• Arizonan town at crossroads over immigration and tourism

  by Jeff Tyler

  Thirty miles from Mexico, Tombstone, Ariz., is at a crossroads for illegal immigration and tourism. Jeff Tyler visited the home of the OK Corral to get locals' perspective on the showdown over Arizona's tough new immigration law.

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• Regulators approve ‘futures trading’ for films

  by Gregory Warner

  Federal regulators have approved a new way for investors to make money on films.

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• Starbucks to offer free Wi-Fi and other Web incentives

  by Jennifer Collins

  Starbucks will begin offering unlimited wireless Internet to customers next month and other Web freebies to keep people in stores.

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• Sri Lanka removed from Lloyd’s of London ‘risk of war’ blacklist

  by Steve Chiotakis

  Lloyd's of London has removed Sri Lanka from its blacklist of countries at risk of war.

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