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Facebook’s Mobility Challenge
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:45:46 PM CST
Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
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Mortgage Relief Plan Is Closer to Winning Support of 2 Key States
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:17:15 PM CST
Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight.
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Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:04:41 PM CST
After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.
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Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Took Research
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:24:12 PM CST
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
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DealBook: Blankfein to Speak Out for Same-Sex Marriage
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:49:46 PM CST
The Human Rights Campaign has recruited Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs to be its first national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage.
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After a Year, The Daily Tablet Paper Struggles
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:39:16 PM CST
The Daily has struggled to break into the national conversation or to drive news and build on its brand the way traditional outlets do.
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Print News Organizations Plunge Into Live Video
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:29:48 PM CST
Web sites, newspapers and other news organizations are gearing up to produce hours of video programming, in part to pursue the higher revenues available from video ads.
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Greece Fights on Two Fronts to Secure New Bailout
Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:44:16 PM CST
Greece’s efforts to secure a second, €130 billion international bailout and avoid a default next month stalled on Sunday.
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NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to ‘Smash’
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:39:12 PM CST
Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting “Smash,” a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs.
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Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:33:52 PM CST
Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport.
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A New Question of Internet Freedom
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:51:02 AM CST
European activists are hoping to stop the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which they say will erode Internet freedom and stifle innovation.
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Looking Ahead: Economic Reports for the Week of Feb. 6
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:44:53 PM CST
Governments reports will include wholesale trade inventories and the trade deficit for December; companies reporting earnings will include Coca-Cola, Toyota Motor, Disney and Groupon.
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Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
Sunday, February 5, 2012 6:57:43 PM CST
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
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The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:37:45 PM CST
The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.
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Disruptions: Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?'
Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:07:15 PM CST
Without the free content created by its 850 million users, Facebook would surely not be on the verge of a multibillion-dollar initial public offering.
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Media Decoder: Now, a Trailer for a Magazine Article
Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:59:52 PM CST
The videos were conceived by Esquire magazine to promote an article in the March issue about the mass killing of exotic animals last fall in Zanesville, Ohio.
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Media Decoder: Streaming Music at Spin
Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:56:10 PM CST
An overhaul for Spin.com includes plans for a streaming music player, nine new blogs and Web-only content like news and album reviews.
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Fair Game: An Investment Wipeout That Didn’t Have to Happen
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:05:42 AM CST
An investor won an arbitration case over money lost in a complex security. But he’s still angry at financial institutions.
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Corner Office | Amy Astley: Amy Astley of Teen Vogue, on Valuing a Work Ethic
Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:20:02 PM CST
Amy Astley of Teen Vogue says that in hiring, she wants to get a sense of applicants’ work ethic — and whether they can think in an entrepreneurial way.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:30:02 PM CST
Articles in this series are examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.
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BUSINESS: House Advantage: The Sure Thing
Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:46:19 PM CST
An animated explanation of how banks use securities lending to make a profit, while their customers cover the losses.