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Bloomberg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Hershey Co.’s controlling trust wants the candy company to make a $17 billion bid for British confectioner Cadbury Plc, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this month the Ford Foundation made an exciting announcement: they're giving away $100 million to improve secondary education in urban schools. This is fantastic...
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1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why all the pessimism? The source appears to be a growing fear that the federal government is retreating from the free-market economic principles of the last half-century, and in particular the strong growth policies that began under Ronald Reagan. A review of the economic policies instituted by President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress lends [...]
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Law.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday made clear that it was not pleased with President Obama's nomination of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. to be a federal district judge in Wisconsin. But did the WSJ go too far in titling its editorial, The White House Butler? In Wisconsin, a state senator, a former state Supreme Court justice and a lawyer all said the editorial...
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Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | yesterday
"jodie sweetin" - Google News 'Memoir: A History' Wall Street Journal ... Marie Osmond, Cloris Leachman, and Jodie Sweetin (Full House), who penned a redemptive memoir about her recovery from methamphetamine addiction. ... Read full article at "jodie sweetin" - Google News
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
CBS News Berkeley Students Protest Higher Fees Wall Street Journal BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the unrest here during the 1960s. ... UC Berkeley protest ends with arrests NECN Calif. college student fees on the rise Washington...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has said he would consider postponing his retirement if directors need more time to find a successor or smooth the transition to the next CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org reports that The Wall Street Journal now has 30,000 subscribers from Amazon.com’s Kindle reader. Kramer writes, “At the current $15 a month, the WSJ Kindle subscriptions represent about $5.4 million annually. But it’s not that easy: the subscription price and the revenue split with Amazon shifted earlier this year; the price increased [...]
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Voice of America Obama Calls for More U.S. Exports to Asia Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON--US President Barack Obama, fresh from his first presidential trip to Asia, called for the US to increase exports to that region, saying even small gains would help put many unemployed Americans back on the job. ... Obama trumpets Asia trip as boost to US economy The Associated Press Obama Says Asia Trip Focused...
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Office technology is so last yearWall Street JournalFor a look at how sharp the divide between work and home can be, consider my experience. The Wall Street Journal gives me a laptop with Windows XP, …
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hershey Trust, the charitable trust that controls Hershey Co. , is pushing the company to launch an offer for Cadbury PLC that would outbid the $17 billion from Kraft Foods Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition late Friday. Hershey's package is likely to be bigger and offer more cash than what Kraft has proposed. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire,...
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Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hershey (HSY) could issue $2 billion of new shares and spend $10 billion of cash as part of a deal to steal Cadbury (CBY) from Kraft Foods (KFT something the Charitable Trust controlling Hershey would very much like, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this afternoon. The [...]
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Some of the largest shareholders in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have urged the Wall Street firm to reduce the size of its bonus pool, arguing that it should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Friday, citing people familiar with the situation. The investors hold tens of millions of shares in Goldman Sachs, which...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Nov 20 (Reuters) - Some of Goldman Sachs Group Inc's largest shareholders have asked the company to cut the size of its bonus pool and pass along more of its profits to investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
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prmac | 08/07/2009
Stone Design today released Twittelator Pro 3.1 , a free upgrade to its top-selling Twitter client for iPhone and iPod Touch. Version 3.1 adds TwitLonger, translate tweets, YouTube and TwitVid video upload sites, and Mute to temporarily ignore noisy tweeters without unfollowing them. Fully optimized for iPhone OS 3.0.1 and runs on all models of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Featured on top of 16 of the...
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pickpennystocks | 07/14/2009
Most economists oppose a second stimulus package by the federal government , according to a survey by Wall Street Journal. In the Wall Street Journal’s latest forecasting survey, only eight of the 51 economists believe that the country needs another stimulus from the Obama administration. These economists suggested that