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<title>One Toke Over the Line</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/11/05/Medical-pot-a-burgeoning-business-in-Denver</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recent policy changes are making medical marijuana a very hot commodity. But as the industry multiplies seemingly overnight, questions about abuse, profits, and taxation are clouding expansion.]]></description>
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<title>Ready for Retirement</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/11/05/americas-hottest-retirement-destinations</link>
<description><![CDATA[When the time comes to stop working and retire, where will you go? A new survey shows America's retirees aren't sticking to the old standbys of Arizona and Florida.]]></description>
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<title>Google Goes Mobile</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/portfolio/2009/11/04/google-goes-mobile-wth-new-adroid-phone-from-motorola-and-verizon-that-targets-apple-iphone</link>
<description><![CDATA[Google's Android 2.0 mobile operating system will get a huge boost from Verizon, which says its Droid phone knows more tricks than the iPhone. Do those tricks include minting money like Apple?]]></description>
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<title>Target Shacks Up</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/11/04/Target-taps-RadioShack-to-run-cell-phone-depts</link>
<description><![CDATA[Target, looking to boost its mobile-phone take, is partnering with the pros at RadioShack.]]></description>
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<title>Google Takes on the World</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/portfolio/2009/11/03/google-unbound-as-search-leader-competes-with-amazon-microsoft-and-apple</link>
<description><![CDATA[Google is using its domination of search advertising to confront Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and others. It can't possibly succeed everywhere at once. Or can it?]]></description>
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<title>Buffett Bets Billions on Burlington Northern</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/11/03/buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-bets-billions-on-burlington-northern</link>
<description><![CDATA[Billionaire financier Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is all in, buying the rest of railroad firm Burlington Northern Santa Fe that it doesn't already own. The deal is Berkshire Hathaway's biggest-ever acquisition.]]></description>
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<title>The Do No Evil Empire</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/11/02/google-is-taking-on-the-world-as-it-tries-to-conquer-the-next-web-generation</link>
<description><![CDATA[Google, aggregating power by the day, is taking on the big boys of tech and media by announcing a dizzying array of products with one goal—to win advertising dollars both now and in a more mobile future.]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Twitter</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/portfolio/2009/10/30/twitter-developers-start-to-sweat-as-twitter-does-deal-with-microsoft-and-google</link>
<description><![CDATA[Companies that create applications for Twitter are diversifying, preparing for a day when they may no longer be needed.]]></description>
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<title>Cheap Shot</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/10/29/huffington-post-big-picture-shows-celebrity-warts-and-all</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post's 'Big Picture' shows celebrities, warts and all. (But mostly warts.) Who cares, as long as it drives traffic to the website?]]></description>
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<title>Farm Aid</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2009/10/29/farmers-fight-to-survive-worst-downturn-in-decades</link>
<description><![CDATA[With consumers cutting back on their grocery bills, farmers are caught in a double bind: losing money on the products they sell and having to borrow against their farms—in most cases tapping into equity that took years to build up.]]></description>
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<title>Google&#x27;s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles</title>
<link>http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/QRLKD3Vyl1g/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world where Google sucks. It might seem a stretch, but a few geeks with long memories remember the last time Google assembled a giant library that promised to rescue orphaned content for future generations. And the ruins of that online archive are a cautionary tale in what happens when Google simply loses interest.


   
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<title>Sneak Peek: 3-D TV Menu Systems Surprisingly Complicated</title>
<link>http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/drZQ99b6ILg/</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's not the sexiest problem in the world, but someone's going to have to solve it: How, if three-dimensional television becomes the next HD — the way much of the industry hopes it will — are viewers going to navigate those channels?


   
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<title>Let&#x27;s Make a Deal Search Engine, Ask.com Says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ask Deals — which hunts down coupons and sales — takes its place besides Ask’s more conventional tabs for searches for news, video and images. It’s a response to a growing number of searchers looking for discounts in tough times, the company says


   
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<title>FTC Tells Amateur Bloggers to Disclose Freebies or Be Fined</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gadget bloggers and Amazon.com reviewers now must disclose freebies and financial interests or face fines up to $11,000, according to rules announced by federal regulators Monday. It's an attempt to make word-of-mouth endorsements on the net easier to believe.


   
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<title>Mr. Know-It-All on Laptop Autopsies, Rookie Journalism, F-Bomb Tweets</title>
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My geeky 8-year-old son wants to take apart my old laptop. But the thing still works, so I could also donate it. What's the right call?


If philosopher John Stuart Mill were alive today&mdash;and able to escape his grave in southern France&mdash;he'd advise you to employ the "greatest happiness principle." Make the choice that will bring maximum enjoyment to the maximum number of people. If you turn the laptop into an engineering project for your son, you'll thrill him for a few hours and teach him a bit about circuitry&mdash;lessons he could also learn by disassembling a less valuable gadget. But if you donate it, you could provide months or years of happiness to someone else's child, and perhaps to the rest of their family as well.

So find a reputable organization that will get the laptop into needy hands. And while you're at it, see if you can track down a completely dead computer (ask a friend or check craigslist) so your son can dissect its innards. Just promise you'll closely supervise Junior's tinkering; while learning about semiconductors, he should also discover the glories of goggles and the magic of battery recycling.

My old college newspaper is posting its archives online&mdash;including some truly awful pieces I wrote in the '90s. Can I ask to have them taken down?

The most basic tenet of journalism is that, save for when factual errors must be corrected, the published record is immutable. Embarrassed interviewees aren't permitted to retract foolish quotes, and embarrassed scribes can't disappear their weaker efforts. Such is the unwritten contract we enter into when we dabble in journalism, whether on campus or in Wired. Suck it up.

"Ultimately, what you're asking to do here is lie, to say, 'I'm perfect,'" says George Sylvie, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "Every little Catholic fiber in me says you just don't do that." Nobody expected digital distribution, my friend, but just because you thought your half-baked op-eds were destined for the memory hole doesn't mean you get a mulligan. Technically, your pieces have always been available, whether stacked on a library shelf or spooled on microfilm. You just weren't famous enough for anyone to care.

Anyway, you're probably worrying too much. People are generally quite forgiving of the intellectual missteps and inappropriate revelations of youth. We were all 20 once. And if someone does confront you about a truly inflammatory bit of prose, point out that a person's views can evolve dramatically over time. After all, Ronald Reagan started out as a Democrat.

What's the policy on profanity in tweets? Is it OK to drop f-bombs at will, or should I replace curse words with pound signs and ampersands?

The only profanity enforcer on Twitter is the invisible hand: ticked-off readers voting with the Unfollow button. Is that enough of a disincentive to keep your filthy mouth&mdash;er, fingers&mdash;in check? That depends on your long-term plans for Twitter domination. Who exactly is your target audience? If your forte is passing along links about parenting or needlepoint, then blue language may rankle your core demographic. But if your chief selling point is acerbic cultural commentary, foulmouthed musings may actually increase your popularity. Look at film director Kevin Smith (@ThatKevinSmith)&mdash;more than 1 million followers as of this writing, and his tweets occasionally include explicit references to his wife's most private parts.

But honestly, if any of your followers are too fragile to endure a single ribald tweet, they probably shouldn't be anywhere near the Internet in the first place. Have you seen some of the nasty $#@! on there?

Need help navigating life in the 21st century? Email us at mrknowitall@wiredmag.com.


   
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<title>Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind</title>
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When Michael Jackson died on June 25, millions of people flooded onto Google News to find the latest information about what had happened. The spike in traffic was so massive that Google suspected a malware attack and began blocking anyone searching for "Michael Jackson." 

It's a funny story, but it illustrates how the Web is changing. People increasingly turn to the Internet for up-to-the-minute information about, well, everything&mdash;blog postings about celebrity antics, status updates from friends, and pictures and videos of political events as they unfold, like the protests over the Iranian election. Studies have shown that these types of search requests are on the rise. 

Pundits call it the real-time Web. It's upending the Internet as we've known it, and it's not something that Google can easily dominate.

For more than 10 years, Google has organized the Web by figuring out who has authority. The company measures which sites have the most links pointing to them&mdash;crucial votes of confidence&mdash;and checks to see whether a site grew to prominence slowly and organically, which tends to be a marker of quality. If a site amasses a zillion links overnight, it's almost certainly spam. 

But the real-time Web behaves in the opposite fashion. It's all about "trending topics"&mdash;zOMG a plane crash!&mdash;which by their very nature generate a massive number of links and postings within minutes. And a search engine can't spend days deciding what is the most crucial site or posting; people want to know immediately. 

So a new generation of search engines like Tweetmeme, OneRiot, Topsy, Scoopler, and Collecta are trying to redefine what makes a piece of information important.

Some of these sites offer a Digg-like indexed front page that displays hot topics, while others just include a simple search field. But most of them rely heavily on Twitter. When a burst of tweets citing a particular subject or URL emerges, it's a "signaling event," as Rishab Ghosh of Topsy puts it. To make sure they're not just getting hoodwinked by spammers, these new search engines employ some clever tricks, like crawling tweeted URLs and discarding those that land on sites containing spamlike language. Most disregard Twitter users who behave like spambots&mdash;for example, ones that follow thousands of people but have very few followers themselves.

Other ploys abound. OneRiot has a toolbar that lets users flag an interesting post immediately. Collecta actively imports blog posts and tweets so they appear in search results less than a second after they go live, rather than the hours it can take regular search engines to catalog the same info. "We want to be limited only by the speed of light," Collecta CTO Jack Moffitt jokes.

The result is something curiously different from regular searching. If you hunt for "Michael Jackson" on a traditional engine like Ask.com or Bing, the vast majority of the links remain the same day to day. Authority changes slowly on the "old" Web. But real-time search engines deliver different, updated results almost every time.

The creators of these new engines argue that their goal isn't to answer questions&mdash; &agrave; la Google&mdash;but to organize experience into a keyhole glimpse of what the world is doing at this very moment. "It's exactly what your friends are going to be talking about when you get to the bar tonight," OneRiot executive Tobias Peggs says. "That's what we're finding." Google settles arguments; real-time search starts them.

Edo Segal, a pioneer in real-time search, thinks the field is going to explode as updates become more automatic, with our devices autoreporting where we are, how we're feeling, and what we're doing and seeing. Old-school search will never vanish, but real-time news will create a society where we have an omnipresent sense of the moment. "Google organized our memory," Segal says. "Real-time search organizes our consciousness."


Email clive@clivethompson.net.


   
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<title>Scott Brown on the Facebook Movie</title>
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To: A. Sorkin, D. Fincher

cc: Hollywood

Re: Facebook Movie

Gentlemen: My Google Reader informs me that you two are teaming up to write and direct a making-of-Facebook story (working title: The Social Network). While I'm a tad offended I wasn't notified through more formal channels&mdash;I am, after all, a member of Facebook and therefore entitled to give notes&mdash;I offer my heartiest congratulations. Aaron, I have no idea how you pulled off that script: Mark Zuckerberg isn't exactly known for rapid badinage, and Facebook, as concept, resists the bricks-and-mortar convention of hallway "walk-and-talks." (Wish you'd landed the Doom movie, A-Sorks&mdash;nothing but hallways in that one! Very West Wing.) On the other hand, a movie about Ivy League twerps putting their yearbook online, suing each other over boilerplate code, and ultimately dispatching a hapless foe (MySpace) sounds like a good flick for you to helm, Finchy. Lemme guess the twist: Those Nordic twins with the runaway pituitaries still litigating for a share of Facebucks? They're not real, right? They're Zuckerberg's Doublemint version of Tyler Durden&mdash;chips off the ol' id.

But enough backslapping: Let's talk turkey. This is going to be a terrible movie, right? I mean, it better be. Because Hollywood's ancien r&eacute;gime is counting on you to make social media look bad. They're eager to embalm Web 2.0 in celluloid. Otherwise, why bother with some silly silicon catfight? The titanic tech war between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would've made a riveting flick 25 years ago. But Hollywood couldn't muster interest in those propellerheads back then and, decades later, relegated the whole saga into a made-for-TV-movie.

Today, however, the fear of new microstudios (College Humor, Funny or Die) and delivery systems (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) is so fierce and so tangible that Tinseltown is reaching for its weapon of last resort: the handshake. Hey, Social Media! Wanna be in pictures? Well, of course it does, the same way triumphal Japanese businessmen enjoyed visiting Graceland in the '80s&mdash;to pose with a glitzy cultural relic. If you want to kill something in the shell, pluck it prematurely and smear it all over the big screen. It'll go from cutting edge to lite-FM lame faster than you can say "You've got mail."

With that in mind, I'd love to talk future projects. Let's get crackin' on Left 4 Twitter. The pitch: It's a zombie picture! The logline: A social network is thrown into panic when its members' very souls get sucked away by a simpler, faster, more smartphone-friendly social network. And here's your summer tent pole: Google Toolbar: Revenge of the Copyright. This one's pretty tried-and-true: Take an old brand we all feel a little nostalgic for, pour on the special effects, and cast Megan Fox as the cheesecake. When all the Google apps combine to form one massive menacing Toolbar (and unsheath the blazing Tool-sword), a collective OMFG! will shake this nation the likes of which hasn't been felt since Goatse. And speaking of Goatse: I hope like hell you're ready to meet Sacha Baron Cohen's latest outrageous character: GOATSE! He's ... well, you know who he is. We're going to send him to a church in the South, then just let the cameras run until the cops show up.

See the genius? Hollywood can simultanously appropriate and neutralize new media brands by miring them in old-media corn and clich&eacute;. The theoretical target audience for The Social Network&mdash;250 million (and counting) Facebookers&mdash;think of the site as small-screen Web utility, not big-screen fare; and nobody would confuse Mark Zuckerberg with Citizen Kane. Let's hope this movie goes straight to video and Hollywood maintains its oligopoly. That'll show those code monkeys who's boss. Yeah! High five! Peace out. &mdash;Scott


Email scott_brown@wired.com.

   
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<title>Taming Twitter Overload: &#x27;Lists&#x27; to the Rescue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Twitter tries a method to sub-categorize the people you follow into "lists," making it possible for the first time to systematically organize — and recommend — feeds you follow.


   
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<title>Alpha Geek: Rocket Scientist Takes on TV for Gamers</title>
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Mary Spio has been a server at McDonald's and an aerospace engineer at Boeing. She holds one of the patents that make it possible to send movies to theaters digitally (no. 7,065,355, relating to "very high data rate satellite transmission"). She also founded a successful singles magazine called One2One Living and currently runs Gen2Media, an Internet-oriented video production and distribution company.

Now Spio is bringing her talents to Xbox Live. About 17 million people subscribe to Microsoft's online entertainment service, and a new one signs up every five seconds. But they still come mainly for gaming; the media offerings are mostly network fare&mdash;not exactly in the strike zone for Xbox users. "They're not watching American Idol or America's Got Talent," Spio says. "They're playing Rock Band." What these kids need, she says, is customized content. 

So she's planning a show called The Verge, a cross between&mdash;of course&mdash;America's Got Talent and Rock Band. Independent artists will produce their own music and submit it via e360live.com. Viewers and a panel of industry professionals will then pick 20 entrants to be featured on Xbox Live, and subscribers can vote on their favorites. Spio's production team will shoot footage and gather backstories on the 20 finalists, to be woven into weekly programs leading up to the finale this winter. "This is the Guitar Hero generation," Spio says. "We want to make shows that match their taste." Sure, it's harder than selling Big Macs&mdash;but probably easier than building rockets.


   
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<description><![CDATA[It’s old news that news consumers shield themselves from pesky dissenting viewpoints by patronizing only those outlets that present a comfortably conforming world view. The web and iPhone service "Newsy" hopes to help remedy the situation by creating short, original video clips with their own reporters highlighting how various sources reported the same news item.


   
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<title>WATCH:  Obama Pledges to Fight Jobless Rate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President says he "won't let up" on battling the rising unemployment rate.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Is It Worth It to Take a Sick Day?</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Economy and Politics: What Lies Ahead?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Congress is poised to pass legislation to extend help to struggling Americans.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  The 50 Cent Empire</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Shopping Spree</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Shoptimism" is back for the holiday season.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Is Your Ruby Real?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Elisabeth Leamy dissects the difference between composites and genuine rubies.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Buc-ee&#x27;s Key to Success? Clean Bathrooms</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many travelers will wait for a Buc-ee's gas station just to use the bathroom.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Saving Without Tears</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What you can do to wind up with hundreds of dollars in 30 days.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  The Best Way to Cash in Your Rewards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How to make your frequent flier miles go further.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  How Much of Your Premium Goes to Care?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Newly compiled figures show how much of your dollar goes toward medical care.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Buffett&#x27;s $34 Billion Bet </title>
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<title>WATCH:  Eatery Uses Skype to Interview Job Candidates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Arizona businessman says using the Internet cuts on cost and time.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>United States: Protecting Data In A Business Failure - Womble Carlyle Sandridge &#x26; Rice</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This economic crisis is also exceptional for its threat to personal data. The United States is in the midst of the first severe economic meltdown of the information age — an age where data about consumers, employees, patients and borrowers is maintained on computers for companies large and small.]]></description>
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<title>Germany: Regional Court Denounces Smart-Ticketing Practices Among Passengers - Arnecke Siebold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On July 31 2009 the Cologne Upper Regional Court ruled on two aspects of Lufthansa&#39;s general conditions of carriage.]]></description>
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<title>Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua&#x27;s Toxic Cocktail: Fact v Fiction - Information Management Solutions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a culture where gossip is news, where questions are met with indignation instead of answers, and where, by law, the Ministers&#39; definition of "public good" cannot be questioned, facts and fiction are  readily and frequently intermingled in the Government&#39;s announcements and news releases.]]></description>
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<title>United States: Patent And Trademark Bulletin For The District Of Massachusetts - Nutter McClennen &#x26; Fish LLP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this August and September 2009 issue of the Patent and Trademark Bulletin for the District of Massachusetts:]]></description>
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<title>United States: House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank Introduces The Financial Stability Improvement Act Of 2009 To Address Systemic Risk And Other Financial Regulatory Reforms  - Goodwin Procter LLP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank introduced a discussion draft of the Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009 (the “Act”), which addresses the regulation of systemic risk and the resolution of systemically important financial institutions. ]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Hague Rules: Dangerous Goods And Negligent Stowage - Ince &#x26; Co</title>
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<title>United States: FTC Approves New Guidelines For Using Testimonials And Endorsements In Advertising; Guidelines Expressly Apply To Blogging And Other Forms Of Social Media - Goodwin Procter LLP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a revised set of guidelines for the use of testimonials and endorsements in advertising.  ]]></description>
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<title>United States: IRS Begins Section 409A Audits - Jones Day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has begun auditing companies&#39; compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code ("Section 409A"). ]]></description>
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<title>China: Antitrust Alert: New Chinese Court Developments Provide Insights Into Anti-Monopoly Law - Jones Day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On October 23, 2009, two private lawsuits filed under China&#39;s Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") were resolved, allowing more insight into the workings of the new statute.]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Consultation On The Regulation Of Credit And Store Cards - CMS Cameron McKenna LLP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Department for Business Innovation & Skills has launched a consultation on changes to current practices in the consumer credit industry. ]]></description>
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<title>United States: Staffing Companies Face Potential Exposure For Interview Time - Littler Mendelson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a putative class action pending in the federal court for the Northern District of California, Sullivan v. Kelly Services, Inc. (Case No. C 08-3893 CW), Judge Claudia Wilken, ruling on cross motions for summary judgment, has held that the time spent interviewing by a Kelly Services employee seeking temporary work assignments with Kelly Services&#39; clients is compensable under California law.]]></description>
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<title>United States: Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds that Asymptomatic Plaintiffs May Sue for Medical Monitoring  - Mayer Brown </title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a recent opinion that bucks the national trend, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court authorized plaintiffs who have no manifest physical injuries, but who assert “subcellular changes” caused by cigarette smoking, to sue for medical monitoring. ]]></description>
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<title>Australia: New Margin Scheme Determination Issued - Should You Be Concerned?   - DLA Phillips Fox</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tax Office has issued a new Margin Scheme Legislative Determination that generally applies from 1 March 2010. ]]></description>
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<title>Turkey: Promotion Campaigns With Prize Draws  - Dulger Law Firm </title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most common mechanisms preferred in promotion campaigns in Turkey is prize draws. The promotion campaigns including prize draws aims to increase the sales by pushing the consumer to purchase as more purchase gives more chance to win the prize. ]]></description>
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<title>Australia: Legal Update: Franchising Reforms Broadly Welcomed - Deacons</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The franchise sector breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson announced the Government&#39;s official response to the report of the recent Federal Parliamentary inquiry into franchising. ]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Are You Contracting With The Right Person? - MacRoberts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems both fundamental and self-evident that you should make sure that you are contracting with the legal person with whom you want to contract.]]></description>
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<title>Australia: Priority Arrangements In Mortgage Enforcement Actions  - Gadens Lawyers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This recent unanimous decision of the High Court of Australia highlights the need for mortgagees to carefully consider the terms contained in their guarantees, as certain provisions can displace priority arrangements between mortgagees in any enforcement action, through rights of subrogation. ]]></description>
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<title>Australia: Bailment: Boat Vandalised Whilst Left At Unsecured Mooring Overnight; Whether Repairer Took Reasonable Care. - Curwoods Lawyers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A repairer was held to be bailee of a boat, even where the bailor retained a key and the boat was left at an unsecured mooring.]]></description>
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<title>United States: Health Care Reform: More Aggressive Fraud Enforcement And Broader Government Oversight Are On The Horizon  - Fried Frank Harris Shriver &#x26; Jacobson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Much of the current debate surrounding health care reform has focused on entitlements and the mechanisms for paying for them. ]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: European Commission Fines E.On And GDF Suez Over EUR 1 Billion For Anti-Competitive Agreement - Bird &#x26; Bird</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 8 July 2009, the European Commission announced that it had fined each of E.On (including its subsidiary E.On Ruhrgas) and GDF Suez EUR 553 million for operating a market-sharing agreement.]]></description>
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<title>Turkey: Petroleum Affairs In Turkey - Akdogan Uslas Attorneys at Law</title>
<link>http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=88938&#x26;rss=0</link>
<description><![CDATA[Located at the crossroads of Europe, Russia, the Caspian Region and the Middle East, Turkey is an energy corridor linking the supplier countries to principal consumer markets and thus stands as a key  layer in ensuring energy security through diversification of resources and routes.]]></description>
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<title>United States: Federal Courts Confirm The Importance Of Indian Tribes&#x27; Trademark Diligence - Sonnenschein Nath &#x26; Rosenthal LLP</title>
<link>http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=86986&#x26;rss=0</link>
<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided an important trademark issue in favor of protecting the names of Indian tribes.]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Environment Agency Consults On Odour Management Guidance - DMH Stallard</title>
<link>http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=86546&#x26;rss=0</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on its revised Odour Management Guidance, covering sites regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007.]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Contracts Of Employment - Employment Law Clinic</title>
<link>http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=87934&#x26;rss=0</link>
<description><![CDATA[Employers are often confused about contracts of employment – what needs to be issued & when; what these should contain; and whether a contract even exists. ]]></description>
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<title>United Kingdom: Going Concern And Liquidity Risk For SMEs - Bond Partners LLP</title>
<link>http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=87228&#x26;rss=0</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Financial Reporting Council ("FRC") is revising its guidance on going concern.]]></description>
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<title>G20 vows to spur fragile growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The recovery is too weak to end stimulus moves, G20 ministers say, as Britain suggests a transaction tax to fund bailouts.]]></description>
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<title>US jobless rate rises to over 10%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US economy lost 190,000 jobs in October, taking the jobless rate above 10% for the first time since 1983.]]></description>
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<title>eBay in Skype deal with founders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[eBay settles a lawsuit with the founders of Skype, ending uncertainty over the future of the internet phone company.]]></description>
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<title>AIG posts second quarterly profit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Insurer AIG reports its second straight quarterly profit since it was bailed out by the US government. ]]></description>
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<title>Treasury seeks RBS lending proof </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Treasury demands proof from bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland that there is little demand for its business loans.]]></description>
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<title>BA to cut 1,200 jobs amid losses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British Airways says it will cut its global workforce by an extra 1,200 as it reports a first-half loss for the first time.]]></description>
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<title>Fannie Mae asks for another $15bn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US mortgage finance firm Fannie Mae asks for another $15bn in state aid after announcing heavy losses.]]></description>
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<title>South Korea approves India deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[South Korea ratifies a free trade deal with India that will give the two Asian countries greater access to each other's markets.]]></description>
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<title>Major economies &#x27;all recovering&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Major economies are showing strong signs of recovery, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.]]></description>
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<title>Ukraine &#x27;pays Russian gas bill&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8347336.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ukraine says it has paid its gas bill to Russia, calming fears that Europe may suffer disruptions to gas supplies.]]></description>
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<title>G20 ministers meet in St Andrews</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8345958.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The world's most powerful finance ministers are in St Andrews for a summit aimed at pulling the global economy out of recession.]]></description>
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<title>Craving for raw garlic sees Irish finance minister through crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An economist reveals Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan's unlikely fondness for munching on raw garlic. ]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines for financial journalists</title>
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<title>Darling project</title>
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<description><![CDATA[G20 finance ministers to pursue banking reform]]></description>
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<title>Retro chic</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8344960.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Brands from East Germany still going strong 20 years on ]]></description>
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<title>Rapid descent</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8346292.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[How did British Airways manage to fall so far?]]></description>
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<title>Afghan resources</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8339570.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is more than just poppy dollars in Afghanistan]]></description>
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<title>Stalled engine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Has GM dealt German carmaker Opel a fatal blow?]]></description>
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<title>Top Gunner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Will Arsenal director Stan Kroenke launch a takeover?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of Australia says the country is growing faster than it had expected.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The United States imposes high anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese pipes as trade disputes mar the run-up to a bilateral summit.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The postal union says Royal Mail made "significant concessions" in an agreement which led it to call off planned strikes.]]></description>
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<title>Pioneer shares up on smaller loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shares in Japanese electronics maker Pioneer rise 9% after the company announced smaller-than-expected losses.]]></description>
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<title>F1 designer unveils electric car</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new sustainable electric car designed for city or town use is the result of a £9m investment programme.]]></description>
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<title>UBS fined &#xA3;8m by the UK regulator</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Financial Services Authority fines Swiss banking giant UBS £8m for failing to stop employees making unauthorised trades.]]></description>
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<title>Banks must act on refunds rules</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Banks will have to change the way they deal with customers who say their cards have been fraudulently used with the correct PIN.]]></description>
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<title>Pensioners to lose payment choice</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New pensioners claiming the state pension will no longer be able to choose to receive it in advance from 6 April 2010.]]></description>
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<title>Personal insolvency rises by 28%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Personal insolvencies hit a record in England and Wales in the third quarter of 2009, with the total up 28% on a year ago.]]></description>
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<title>Sugar firm to shut pension scheme</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tate & Lyle sugar company becomes the latest to announce the closure of its final-salary pension scheme.]]></description>
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<title>South Africa cancels Airbus deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[South Africa cancels a multi-billion dollar contract for eight military aircraft with Airbus, citing escalating costs.]]></description>
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<title>Libyans &#x27;unlikely&#x27; to compensate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A lawyer who has advised Libya in the past says it is unlikely victims of the IRA in NI will be compensated.]]></description>
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<title>China defends export restrictions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China denies claims by the US, EU and Mexico that it is unfairly constraining exports of some raw materials.]]></description>
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<title>JP Morgan agrees $75m bribe fine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US banking giant JP Morgan agrees to pay a fine of $75m to settle charges that it bribed officials in Alabama.]]></description>
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<title>Carmaker Toyota eyes smaller loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Carmaker Toyota cuts its annual loss forecast after announcing a return to profit in the most recent quarter.]]></description>
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<title>Panasonic begins Sanyo takeover</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japanese electronics group Panasonic says it has begun the process to take over smaller rival Sanyo.]]></description>
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<title>RBS bank reports losses of &#xA3;2.2bn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland announces that it lost £2.2bn in the three months to the end of September.]]></description>
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<title>Extra &#xA3;25bn to stimulate UK economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bank of England is to pump an extra £25bn into the economy but has kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq in third overseas oil deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iraq reaches a deal with a consortium led by US oil giant Exxon Mobil to develop the country's West Qurna 1 oil field.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq signs new overseas oil deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iraq's oil ministry signs an agreement with a consortium led by the Italian firm, ENI, to develop the Zubair oilfield.]]></description>
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<title>Gold hits new high on India deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The price of gold reaches an all-time high after a large sale of the precious commodity by the International Monetary Fund to India.]]></description>
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<title>Bank comments hit Indian shares</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India's leading shares slip 2% after the country's central bank says it is time to end some of its support measures.]]></description>
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<title>Greenspan denies role in U.S. policy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told CBC News Friday he makes regular visits to the Obama White House, but he denied he still influences policy-making.
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<title>Videotron ideal suitor for Globalive: analyst</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Quebecor's Videotron telecom arm might be the ideal candidate to help solve Globalive Communications' foreign ownership problems, an analyst at Royal Bank suggests.]]></description>
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<title>Toronto to host 2015 Pan Am Games</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's mission accomplished for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Toronto Mayor David Miller and all other members of the delegation supporting Toronto's bid to host the 2015 Pan Am Games.]]></description>
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<title>Canada sheds 43,200 jobs in October</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Canada's unemployment rate rose slightly in October, with the economy shedding 43,200 jobs in the month.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. unemployment hits 26-year high of 10.2%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 10.2 per cent in October from 9.8 per cent, as non-farm payroll employment declined by 190,000.]]></description>
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<title>Air Canada: no quick recovery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Air Canada's CEO says he's seeing the first signs of economic recovery, but he doesn't expect a return to full revenues at the Montreal-based airline for at least a year.
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<title>How executive bonuses fail to deliver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests 12 of the companies in Canada's TSX 60 index have corporate governance issues that make them a serious risk to investors.  Another 10 are a moderate risk.]]></description>
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<title>Gold soars for 5th straight day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gold futures jumped to yet another new record Friday, soaring over $1,100 US an ounce.]]></description>
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<title>Suncor plans to sell $4B in assets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Calgary-based Suncor Energy Inc. said Friday it plans to sell up to $4 billion in assets next year.]]></description>
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<title>GM Europe chief resigns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive of General Motors Europe who runs its struggling Opel unit, is leaving the company, GM said Friday.

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<item rdf:about="http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/11/06/bc-cohen-fraser-salmon-inquiry-vancouver.html?ref=rss">
<title>Justice to head Fraser River salmon inquiry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen will head the federal inquiry into the decline of the Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks.]]></description>
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<title>G20 debates how to let big banks fail</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Finance ministers from the G20 countries were grappling with the problem of how to allow big banks to big fail as they gathered in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Telus lowers profit outlook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Telus Corp. has lowered its estimate of how much profit it will make this year.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/11/06/young-farmers-campaign.html?ref=rss">
<title>Campaign aims to rope in young farmers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A countrywide campaign is underway to get more young people interested in agriculture to counter a rapid decline in the number of Canadian farmers over the past several years.]]></description>
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<title>Magna says no more takeovers planned</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Magna International said Thursday it has no further plans for takeovers now that the deal to acquire Opel is off.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/video-digital-media-technology-internet-best-buy.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness">
<title>Best Buy To Stream Video In Electronics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Retailer embeds Sonic Solutions' Roxio CinemaNow video service in TVs, Blu-ray players and more.]]></description>
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<title>LinkedIn Founder Joins VC Firm</title>
<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/greylock-linkedin-facebook-technology-internet-hoffman.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness</link>
<description><![CDATA[Reid Hoffman joins Greylock Partners as it announces $575 million fund.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/27/fraud-stockbrocker-google-technology-internet-takeover.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness">
<title>Tech&#x27;s Would-Be Takeover Con Artist</title>
<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/27/fraud-stockbrocker-google-technology-internet-takeover.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness</link>
<description><![CDATA[A stockbroker allegedly created phony takeovers by Microsoft and Google.]]></description>
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<title>Yahoo!&#x27;s Metrics System</title>
<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/21/online-search-advertising-technology-internet-yahoo.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness</link>
<description><![CDATA[With a new look, the Web portal seeks new ways to measure us.]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft Loops In Facebook, Twitter</title>
<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/21/search-bing-twitter-technology-facebook.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bing search engine indexes Facebook status updates.]]></description>
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