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Industry Articles
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Pharma
Amgen, Abbott Labs Likely Pleased at Appointment of Daschle to HHS
Tom Daschle's law firm is a lobbyist for Abbott Laboratories; his wife has lobbied for Amgen. Those are just two of the drug- and health-related potential conflicts that President-elect Obama's ...
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Government
Patent & Trademark Office Buys Call Center Services
The US Patent & Trademark Office awarded a contract to V-Tech Solutions to provide call center support to their Contract Center. The contract is worth over $7 M and is ...
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Technology
Telecom Roundup: Verizon Workers View Obama Records, Nokia and China, More
Verizon employees viewed an old cell phone account for Barak Obama, though supposedly didn't read emails or listen to voice mails; AT&T is funding a privacy policy group to influence ...
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Technology
Tech Roundup: Microsoft Scales, Midway Flails, Canon Pales, More
Microsoft has hired a database academic to help scale SQL Server, and it's boosting the number of tunes Zune subscribers can keep to bump sales; gaming company Midway has had ...
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Media
Media in an Age of Chaos
New York, N.Y. -- Why is it that whenever I land here, in the media capital of the U.S., something back home in California decides to jar me by changing, ...
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Pharma
Pharma Roundup: Novartis Pipeline, AstraZeneca Layoffs, and More
Novartis pipeline, AstraZeneca layoffs, Merck's self-proclaimed goodness, lessons for pharma from Detroit.
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Auto
Sounded Good at the Time: The $2.99 Gas Card
Chrysler's "Let's Refuel America" $2.99-per-gallon gas card may be worth something on "Antiques Roadshow" in 2058, but it's not worth much now, with gas at $2.02 per gallon.
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Food
Lance Offers $30 Million for Bankrupt Archway/Mother's
Archway and Mother's Cake and Cookie Company may be resurrected next month if a $30 million bid on the company's assets from Lance, a North Carolina snack company, is accepted. ...
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Retail
Retail Roundup: 360 Wal-Marts to be Powered by Wind, Online Retailers Fight, More
360 Texas Wal-Marts to be powered by wind -- Wal-Mart recently inked a four-year contract with Duke Energy, which will power hundreds of the chain's Texas stores using wind energy. ...
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Energy
Energy Roundup: Sasol Gets Gas, KS Energy Sues Ocean HeavyLift, Oil Pirates, and More
Oil companies must think globally but bank locally in Indonesia -- Starting next month, oil and gas companies doing business in Indonesia will have to use local banks for transactions, ...
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Food
Sara Lee Ditches Kosher Meat Amid Supply Crisis
Sara Lee announced plans to close its kosher meat-processing facility in Chicago by the end of January, 2009, and to discontinue its kosher meat brands, Best's Kosher, Sinai Kosher, Shofar ...
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Government
US Military Turns to NACE for Corrosion Expertise
The Department of Defense continued its relationship with NACE International by extending a contract for training and certification in corrosion protection. NACE International, an organization that grew out of the ...
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Media
YouTube Live to Straddle the Pro-Am Content Divide
Seeing yesterday on YouTube that the Google-owned video site plans a YouTube Live event on Saturday night left me with a feeling of deja vu. Or at least the thought ...
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Financial Services
Bankers Banks Pick Up Business and Maybe Bad Loans
Bankers banks – banks which loan to community banks – are both benefiting and facing challenges from the financial crisis. On one hand, they are enjoying the extra kick of ...
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Technology
Telecom Roundup: T-Mobile Internet Access, Nokia Adds Lotus Notes Email, More
T-Mobile launches full Internet web browsing with Yahoo search and third-party app store; Nokia puts IBM's Lotus Notes email on handsets; Ireland leads world in cell phone and texting usage, ...
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Travel
Travel Roundup: Southwest Pays, Stewardess Lands Plane, Harrah's Lays Off and More
Southwest pays $7.5 million for La Guardia landing slots -- Southwest Airlines is willing to pay $7.5 million for bankrupt ATA Airlines' landing slots and operating certificate at La Guardia Airport. ...
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Technology
Tech Roundup: Ballmer Nixes Yahoo Bid, Google/P&G Employee Swap, More
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer nixes the idea of buying Yahoo, though he's still interested in the search business; eBay subsidiary PayPal is offering consumer credit for purchases during the holidays; Google ...
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Advertising
Hoffman/Lewis CEO Can't Stop Cursing and Swearing on His Blog
Hoffman/Lewis in San Francisco and St. Louis promises on its web site to "get beyond the fleeting trends, false goals, and dreadful jargon of contemporary advertising." But a look at ...
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Travel
Mobile Travel Assistants Become More Useful
As mobile devices become more and more powerful, it's easy to see why travel applications should become some of the most useful and popular mobile applications. When travelers are on ...
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