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Natural gas prices drop to lowest level in a decade
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Eve Troeh
Apr 12, 2012
The price of gasoline is skyrocketing in the U.S. -- so why is natural gas at its lowest price in years?
Chicago mayor hopes to lengthen school day
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Eve Troeh
Apr 11, 2012
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving ahead with controversial plans for a longer school day. That would make Chicago an outlier, because a longer day costs more money -- which most districts don't have at the moment.
Apple sued over price fixing on e-books
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Eve Troeh
Apr 11, 2012
The Department of Justice is suing Apple. The charges? Price fixing. Not for Apple laptops, or Apple iPads -- but for the e-books you read on them.
Instagram could struggle to turn a profit
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Eve Troeh
Apr 10, 2012
Facebook is buying the mobile app company Instagram for $1 billion. But when many similar image-based companies have failed to make a profit, will Instagram be any different?
Is Facebook's big Instagram purchase worth it?
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Eve Troeh
Apr 10, 2012
Facebook is making its biggest purchase yet as it prepares to go public. The company is buying the photo-sharing app Instagram for a billion dollars.
Layoffs may not help Sony's bottom line
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Eve Troeh
Apr 9, 2012
Sony is reportedly going to cut 10,000 jobs by the end of this year, but some say it may already be too late to save the company.
AT&T faces worker walkout
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Eve Troeh
Apr 6, 2012
Some 40,000 AT&T workers could strike this weekend if contract negotiations fail.
M.B.A. programs gear up for green
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Eve Troeh
Apr 5, 2012
Major companies increasingly want M.B.A.s to help them make financial, environmental and social gains.
Starbucks finds partners for job fund
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Eve Troeh
Apr 4, 2012
Google Offers and Banana Republic are the first businesses to join Starbucks in raising money for its U.S. job creation fund.