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February 28, 2013

Pandora has announced that they will begin imposing a 40 hour free monthly mobile listening limit on users of their free music streaming service due to rising royalty costs for the music.

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March 29, 2012

RECOVERY: Best Buy To Cut Jobs And Shutter Stores

OK, I’ve got to admit I was wrong.  It really does appear that we’re in a surprise election year economic recovery.

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September 19, 2011

After two months that saw a torrent of angry, fleeing customers and the first bad PR of its corporate life, Netflix has announced that it is spinning off its core DVD rental by mail service under the bizarre name Qwikster.

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May 25, 2011

Dead: CNBC’s Mark Haines (65)

CNBC has announced that long-time Squawk Box and Squawk on the Street host Mark Haines has died suddenly at age 65.

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April 14, 2011

Gamesa, the Spanish owned recipient of $23 million dollars from Obama’s failed Stimulus program, is helping to fund the donation of solar-powered water purifiers to Japan.

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March 21, 2011

Number two American cellular phone carrier AT&T announced Sunday that they were buying German-owned #4 carrier T-Mobile for $39 billion.

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January 6, 2011

Time To Hoard TastyKakes

If a steady diet of TastyKakes is essential to maintaining your fat ass and the fat asses of your fat-assed kids, you may want to head to whatever shopping establishment you’ve been using as your personal feeding trough and stock up.  Tasty Baking Company is seeking a partner to avoid having to liquidate, despite millions of dollars in government grants, tax breaks and low-interest loans.

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October 5, 2010

American Express To Obama: Screw You And Your Deal

The Federal Government is suing American Express for not entering into another anti-business agreement; this one between failed President Barack Obama and credit card issuers Visa and Mastercard.

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August 23, 2010

Philadelphia is apparently making bloggers pay $300 for a Business Privilege License because of their blogging income.

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May 21, 2010

REPORT: FOX Business Cancels ‘Happy Hour’