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BNET Retail
Retail Roundup: Macy's CEO Says Debt Can Be Paid Down, (Very) Black Friday for Online Retailers
Macy's CEO says debt can be paid down -- Macy's Inc. doesn't plan to close many locations, CEO Terry Lundgren said in a Nov. 28 interview with Bloomberg Television, adding ...
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BNET Food
Cargill on the Prowl
Cargill, the country's largest privately held company, is looking for acquisitions, at least in Asia, according to Paul Conway, the company's Asia-Pacific president. "There will be opportunities to acquire both ...
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BNET Retail
Retail Security Isn't Jolly, But It's Critical This Holiday Season
The Black Friday stampede at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., was a tragedy that highlights an important issue retailers will confront this holiday season: security. While Wal-Mart asserted that ...
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BNET Media
Ads Falling, the "Dailies" Ponder Reducing Days
After flying across the country on my birthday in 2000, from Silicon Valley, where I'd just inked a new job, to my home in suburban Washington, D.C., I was shocked ...
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BNET Government
Diversification is Key to a Defense Contractor
Today Cubic Corporation was awarded two different contracts by two different governments to do two completely different things. The City of San Francisco gave the company a $18 M contract ...
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BNET Auto
If Ford Drops Volvo, Will GM Drop Saab?
Now that Ford is willing to sell or otherwise give up Volvo, will GM's Saab unit be the next shoe to drop? Saab and Volvo share some of the same ...
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BNET Food
FDA Doing A Great Job - Says FDA
Despite growing criticism of the agency, the Food and Drug Administration says things are just getting better and better. Its headline for today's press release about its own Food Protection ...
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BNET Media
Should the AP and CNN See You as Their Competitor?
The New York Times reports today that CNN is looking to compete with the embattled Associated Press, inviting some 30 newspapers to come to its Atlanta headquarters this week for ...
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BNET Financial Services
Loan Fight: Deutsche Bank Vs. Donald Trump
Once again, Donald Trump is going toe-to-toe with his banker. Deutsche Bank, a major backer of Trump's mammoth new condominium/hotel tower in downtown Chicago, is demanding the real estate mogul ...
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BNET Financial Services
Financial Roundup: Morgan Stanley Tries Retail, Lending Trust Eroding, Biotech Firms Lack Capital, Citi Buys Spanish Builder
Morgan Stanley races into retail banking -- White shoe investment firm Morgan Stanley is racing into banking for Ordinary Joes two months after converting into a bank holding company. The ...
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BNET Travel
Travel Roundup: Deutsche Bank Sues Trump, NASCAR Hurts Tourism, Unemployment Hits BART and More
Deutsche Bank sues Trump over defaulted loan -- Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas claims Donald Trump owes it $40 million after he defaulted on a $640 million loan for his Trump International ...
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BNET Auto
Ford Gives Up On Volvo, After All
Ford will cut Volvo Car Corp. loose after all. Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally said a year ago Ford would keep Volvo and fix it, but the downturn has ...
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BNET Travel
Mesa Settles Aloha Lawsuit, Wants to Use Aloha Name
There was an odd ending to the long-standing case of Aloha Airlines against Mesa over the weekend. You may remember that Aloha went out of business earlier this year, but ...
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BNET Advertising
Hispanic Ad Agencies Should Be More Afraid of Recession Than They Say They Are
Automakers slashed their Hispanic advertising budgets in the last quarter, demonstrating that execs at Latino-targeting shops were much more optimistic than they should have been earlier this quarter. In October, ...
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BNET Pharma
Despite layoffs, Abbott Labs Faces Retirement Wave in 5 Years
A report in Kiplinger's notes that roughly 25 percent of the employees of Abbott Labs are age 50 or older, and in five years that number could top more than ...
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BNET Pharma
Roche Doesn't Have Enough Money for Genentech Deal
A few days ago BNET noted that the Roche-Genentech deal was conspicuous by its absence because, among other reasons, "liquidity — meaning the credit Roche needs to make the deal ...
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BNET Technology
Tech Roundup: Yahoo Stumbles, Dell Grumbles, VC Tumbles, More
Yahoo considers a CEO without media or Internet experience as Carl Icahn increases his stake in the comapny and Microsoft says "no, thanks"; Dell's numbers only reached their poor state ...
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BNET Technology
Bleak Black Friday
Reports on Black Friday sales have largely agreed on some basics. But the more you dig into the numbers, the more obvious it is that we're seeing some particularly ugly ...
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BNET Technology
Analog Dollars, Digital Pennies, and an Embarrassment of Video Riches
Fred Wilson of Union Square ventures had an interesting post titled Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies. He quoted Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal CEO, expressing concern "that we do not ...
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