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Right-click and bookmark into your "links" folder. When viewing a news story (On CNN, Newsweek, etc) that you want to seed, click the bookmarked link.
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MSNBC
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But "there was always push back" from sales executives when he advocated more conservative lending, Zimmer said. Like most big lenders, well over half of the loans made by People's Choice came not from its own employees but from independent mortgage broke..
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MSNBC
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is recommending approval of the $5 billion merger between the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters in exchange for concessions that include turning over 24 channels to noncommercial and minority p..
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BusinessWeek
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Amid high demand for Firefox 3, Mozilla prepares its open-source software to take on Microsoft, Google, and a world of cell-phone confusion
When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record..
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BusinessWeek
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The candidates' opening salvos reveal widely different views. Obama calls current policy "the most fiscally irresponsible in our history"
They've parried over gas taxes (BusinessWeek.com, 4/15/08) and fixes for the housing crisis. Now, as the general e..
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BusinessWeek
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After a survey of corporate customers, one Wall Street analyst cuts his expectations for revenue and profit growth
Microsoft has irked consumers and corporate customers with the most recent version of its Windows operating system, which they complain r..
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BusinessWeek
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Despite huge oil and gas reserves, Venezuela lurches into a power crisis caused by years of infrastructure neglect
Angela Marquez should be pleased, considering the long line of customers at her paint store in the central Venezuelan city of La Victoria..
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BusinessWeek
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Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft
For more than a month, Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang has endured a withering attack by shareholder..
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BusinessWeek
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Employee screening has become a big business, but not always an accurate one
Theodore Pendergrass was shocked in November, 2006, when the Walgreens (WAG) pharmacy chain rejected his application for a store supervisor job. The company told him a backgro..
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BusinessWeek
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The automaker's stock remains depressed after a run of gloomy news—presenting a compelling opportunity for long-term investors
It isn't raining but pouring bad news at Ford Motor (F). The automaker's stock, which sold as high as 67 a share some 10 ye..
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SF Gate
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Sales of new homes rose in April for the first time in six months although the unexpected increase still left activity near the lowest level in 17 years.
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that sales of new homes rose 3.3 percent in April to a se..
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BusinessWeek
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By subsidizing gasoline, Chávez spreads the oil wealth. But the cost of those cheap fill-ups is becoming hard to ignore
Global oil prices zoomed up to $135 a barrel this past week. But that doesn't worry Roberto Morales, a 33-year-old Venezuelan busin..
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BusinessWeek
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Larry Page presses the FCC to make slivers of wireless spectrum available for unlicensed public use, as opposition mounts
Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare trip to Washington this week. No, he wasn't lobbying for net neutrality or being grilled..
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BBC News
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Oil prices hit a record high above $135 a barrel on Thursday, having rocketed by more than $4 a barrel on Wednesday.
US light, sweet crude for July delivery reached $135.09, taking its gain for the year so far above 40%.
The main driver was the US c..
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BusinessWeek
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The U.S. has a dismal showing among nations in terms of broadband availability, with no easy solution to bridge the gap
Although the Internet was started here, the U.S. can't seem to catch up with other developed nations when it comes to giving citizen..
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BusinessWeek
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Carl Icahn is leading a charge to replace the board at the Internet icon and push for a deal
Every day it looks more likely that Yahoo! (YHOO) co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo will lose control of the company they built into the Net's first iconic..
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BusinessWeek
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Lawsuits pitting the online classified and e-commerce giants should make prospective partners think hard before seating a rival on the board
Frenemies be afraid. Alliances with would-be competitors can be perilous. Nowhere in techdom is that clearer th..
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BusinessWeek
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The latest talks clearly suggest Microsoft lacks a Plan B to compete with Google in search, while Yahoo is feeling the heat from Carl Icahn
When Microsoft announced May 3 that it was dropping its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo (BusinessWeek.com, 5/3/08),..
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BusinessWeek
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Even as Mexican workers send less money home and families struggle to stay above the poverty line, the U.S. is still considered a land of opportunity
In better times, the money Martimiano Pineda wired back to Purechucho from roofing jobs in Florida coa..
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BusinessWeek
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The likely Republican Presidential nominee offered a climate-change proposal that opponents, including Obama, say is too little, too late
John McCain's global warming journey started back in 2000, when a strange apparition named "Captain Climate" began..
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BusinessWeek
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With Iron Man, the comic book publisher has made an incredible transformation into a movie studio
Maybe Iron Man really can fly. The blockbuster superhero movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. as an industrialist who fights terrorists and arms dealers in a..
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