Apr 4, 2006

Marketplace AM for April 4, 2006

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Starbucks brews up a movie promotion

by Alisa Roth

Apr 4, 2006

The coffee retailer becomes a movie marketer today, launching a publicity campaign to promote a film it also helped produced. Alisa Roth has more.

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Google, Yahoo act like stock exchanges

by Marketplace Staff

Apr 4, 2006

Commentator Andreas Kluth says Internet companies like Google and Yahoo are starting to act like a stock exchange for Web content.

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Ethanol comes of age

by Marketplace Staff

Apr 4, 2006

The corn-based alternative fuel is increasingly moving from the purview of farm cooperatives to the focus of IPOs and shareholders. Curt Nickisch looks at ethanola€™s economic rite of passage.

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There's a building boom?

by Ashley Milne-Tyte

Apr 4, 2006

Construction spending hit records highs in February, according to newly released figures. Ashley Milne-Tyte takes a look at just what exactly was fueling the boom.