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11 Aug 2010 10:57

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Biz: BP station owners caught between a rock and a hard place

  • rockDue to the oil spill, many individual station owners have seen business fall flat – some as many as 50 percent, but most around a more modest 5 percent after an early freefall in sales.
  • hard placeHowever, despite the stations mostly not being owned by BP, many owners have a contract with the company for 15-20 years that could lead to heavy fines if the contract’s broken early. source
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15 Jul 2010 10:48

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Tech: Is Apple finally ready to come clean about their antenna problems?

  • They have a press conference scheduled for Friday. However, while it will be about the iPhone 4, there’s no word on whether or not it’s actually about the antenna issue, which Consumer Reports went out of their way to turn into a full-fledged PR crisis the other day. On the scale of smart public relations moves, it certainly beats Steve Jobs telling a customer, “You’re holding it the wrong way.” Unless they plan to stonewall some more. source
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