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24 May 2009 11:20

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Biz, Offbeat: The guy visiting every Starbucks can’t seem to get closure

  • 9,000+ number of Starbucks “Winter” has visited since starting Starbucks Everywhere a dozen years ago. He’s trying to visit every one. source
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23 May 2009 19:10

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Biz, U.S.: GM keeps needing money and the U.S. Treasury keeps giving it

  • $4 billion more in another bandage prior to bankruptcy source
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23 May 2009 11:51

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Biz, U.S.: Obama thinks GM will come back strong after reorganization

  • Ultimately, I think that GM is going to be a strong company and we are going to be pulling out as soon as the economy recovers and they’ve completed their restructuring.
  • President Barack Obama • Who did not refer to the likely bankruptcy the company faced to complete that restructuring in his comments on the automaker. *Sigh* he wouldn’t care so much if the company hadn’t been so essential to the last 100 years of our country’s growth. • source
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22 May 2009 19:10

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Biz: General Motors is between a rock and a bankrupt place

  • $27 billion Amount of debt the company, heading towards bankruptcy, owes its bondholders source
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22 May 2009 12:32

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Biz, U.S.: Warranty expired: A massive telemarketing scam, uprooted

  • In case you’ve ever gotten an automated call from a telemarketer telling you that your vehicle warranty is about to expire (even when it wasn’t), it’s a scam, one that the Federal Trade Commission shut down last week. source
  • This was a big one. 30,000 complaints were received by the FTC. The Florida companies apparently called tens of millions of people a week. And it was completely an attempt to bilk customers out of money. source
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21 May 2009 22:43

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Biz: This Sriracha chili sauce is pretty hot. And by hot, we mean popular

More than 10 million bottles of Huy Fong’s Tuong Ot Sriracha get made each year. And its reach has gone far beyond Asian markets. source
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21 May 2009 09:26

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Biz, U.S.: Two barometrical signs that the economy is improving

  • +34% The increase in the S&P 500 since it hit a low point in September source
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21 May 2009 08:55

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Biz, Tech: Google considered buying newspapers – but not anymore.

  • Google, with their charitable arm, Google.org, was once interested in buying a paper that wanted to carry non-profit status. They were also offered a stake in The New York Times. source
  • CEO Eric Schmidt said that the company ultimately decided that the debt load was too high and that they didn’t want to be on the other side of the news-aggregation plate. Good move. source
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20 May 2009 16:49

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Biz, U.S.: The House wants to regulate credit cards, too

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20 May 2009 10:41

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Biz: Credit cards will try to cash in on their good customers

  • $20 billion amount credit companies are supposed to make from fees – overlimit charges and such – on bad customers this year source
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