Saturday's Top 100 Breaking Business News, Headlines & Stories
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Ed Miliband promises there will be no return to the tax and spend policies of past Labour governments, in a speech to Labour's national policy forum.
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Vega Sicilia’s wine is triumphant, but its ruling clan’s bickering has been leaving a sour taste.
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The investment firm Standard General has purchased a $10 million loan made to the retailer that had been called in and threatened to set of a string of defaults.
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Success in the gym, as with most things in life, comes down to mastering the basics.
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In Los Angeles, food trucks are heralded as " the new incubators of culinary innovation. " Vendors line the streets in neighborhoods all over town, offering customers everything from Korean tacos to lobster rolls to wood-oven pizza. But ...
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to earn millions of dollars from the sale of a family-owned stake in Brookside, Kenya’s largest dairy company.
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Very costly to build today, but are on the market for less than $1 million.
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Managing talented people is a challenging task. For two reasons. First, talented people are skeptical about management’s contribution to the organization. Second, managerial controls may distract rather than help talented people do what ...
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When it comes to companies we dread dealing with, we all know who they are. Let’s put it this way, would you rather go to the Apple Genius Bar to fix something with your iPhone or to the Bank of America teller to reverse a surprise inter...
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There were three new wide releases at the box office this weekend, and all of them fell into the "good, but not great" category. The top new opener (and for probably one night the top film period) was The Purge: Anarchy. The "Every year ...
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This article originally appeared on ProPublica. California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear ...
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New York State has decided to issue a regulatory structure for Bitcoin, meaning that businesses in that State can be sure of what they can and cannot do. This is excellent news of course, the regulatory uncertainty is most certainly hold...
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety issued its first list of used vehicles that it most recommends for young motorists.
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UK Asset Resolution created from toxic debts of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley is selling off assets
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NEW YORK CITY – Eve Epstein comes home to New York City feeling a little less than herself. She checks into The Marlton Hotel and discovers just how restorative the right hideaway can be.
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Sonic cannons to be used in ocean from Delaware to Florida Study estimates 138,000 sea creatures could be affected Continue reading...
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The nine justices of the Supreme Court are now in recess, leaving the rest of us the summer in which to reflect upon and digest their latest set of rulings -- particularly the two handed down on the last day before they took their break....
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Dell shareholders want an appraisal of the founder’s takeover bid for the company. But he wants documents, lots of them.
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Apple just added a second female director to its 8-seat board – and in Silicon Valley, that counts as progress.
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Professors doing original research and entrepreneurs looking for the next great innovation have much in common.
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The dangers of procrastination are clear. But a study shows that many people are “precrastinators,” finishing projects sooner than is needed and thus causing a different kind of problem.
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors knew of ignition switch problems with 6.7 million midsize and large cars for 11 years, yet it failed to warn customers with a recall until last month, according to documents posted by federal safety regulato...
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Eleventh hour negotiations to win Indian approval for a breakthrough global trade pact may not have succeeded in the end despite initial signs of progress, sources involved in the discussions said on Saturday.
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After decades of pairing students based on scant information, some colleges are giving them tools for making their own choices.
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Kalashnikovs sell out in U.S. after feds block Russian imports.
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In a recent five-year study of mutual funds, consistently strong performance was found to be remarkably rare.
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Just two days after I wrote on these pages that Apple had some cause for concern in the consumer marketplace, it announced its partnership with IBM. Emily Litella used to say on “Saturday Night Live,” “Never mind.” Whatever ground Apple...
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When the Haggler sought readers’ help in getting an answer from Conn’s, an appliance store chain, many obliged. Still, the company didn’t budge.
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Coach popularized 'luxury for the masses.' Now the brand is struggling and it wants to leave the masses behind. Can new creative director Stuart Vevers pull off a comeback?
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The Department is currently assessing the capital requirement of all public sector banks and likely to finalise the time schedule in one month, he said.
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TSB is planning its first major corporate move since floating on the stock market last month, Sky News can reveal.
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Facebook makes a play to help small businesses get into the ecommerce game.
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A writer’s year as a real estate agent was filled with frustration, not to mention her boss’s incessant 1980s tunes.
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An executive says employees “should feel very concerned if they don’t understand why they’re successful.”
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Notable quotes from business articles that appeared in The New York Times last week.
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Rupert Murdoch's entertainment company, 21st Century Fox, pounced on its prey at an opportune moment.
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Jack Lew highlighted the decision US companies face—stay domestic and pay taxes or go abroad for savings.
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Both proponents and opponents of nuclear power expect the Environmental Protection Agency in coming months to relax its rules restricting radiation emissions from reactors and other nuclear facilities. EPA officials say they have no such...
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The CFPB has sued a firm it accuses of operating a "factory" that churned out more than 350,000 debt collection lawsuits.
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Shovel Knight is hard to stop playing. It is a super stylized tribute to the epic platformers of the video game industry’s early days. My kids and I have been playing the game together for the last few weeks. We sit on the sofa together ...
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Buyer is Hong Kong-based investor group Integrated Whale Media Investments.
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An exercise in form and function, natural light touches the interiors of this sleek modern home in Venice through meticulously placed skylights and a glass catwalk and staircase framed in steel. A pair of rooftop decks cap the newly buil...
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Michael C. Hall has listed a property in Los Feliz at $4.5 million. Considering that the "Dexter" star and serial home buyer purchased the place a year ago at $3.825 million, he may not make much of a killing after improvements and commi...
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The best place to find a diesel these days isn't a freeway truck stop. It's the country club.
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The latest round of steel tariffs are a classical, sui generis, example of how politics really works. Larded with a great deal of rhetoric about how this will save jobs, make America great again and possibly improve the flavour of Mom's ...
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Yesterday morning, after five spurned bids, AbbVie, the North Chicago-based pharmaceutical giant finally closed in on a deal to buy Irish drugmaker Shire for $54 billion. One key consequence of the deal: AbbVie will change its tax domici...
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Writer Will Potter raised money through Kickstarter to buy drones and other equipment to investigate animal agriculture in the U.S. He says drones will can help him circumvent so-called "ag-gag" laws.
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(4-traders.com) Igate has a new logo in blue, and with the 'i' now upper cased. It has also dropped the tagline 'iToPS for business outcomes'. iToPs, or integrated technology and operations, represented Igate's focus on delivering busine...
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(4-traders.com) MARGAO: Goans for Dabolim Only (GFDO) welcomed the proposal of allowing Air Asia to use the Dabolim airport as a hub for its operations, and urges the government and Airport Authority of India (AAI) to recognize this as a...
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(4-traders.com) BANGALORE: Wipro has acquired Atco I-Tek, the IT services arm of Canadian logistics and utilities provider Atco, for $195 million (Rs 1,170 crore) - its second biggest acquisition ever. The acquisition comes bundled with ...
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(4-traders.com) The much in news Sonam Kapoor's 'Khoobsurat' is finally out with its teaser. The film is a remake of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 'Khubsoorat' that starred the beautiful Rekha and the handsome Rakesh Roshan. Replacing the g...
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(4-traders.com) BANGALORE: Worry not, your 'unique' identity is safe. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that issues biometric identification numbers to citizens, is set to revamp the Aadhaar project. This c...
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(4-traders.com) TEHRAN (FNA)- Nvidia has been expending more resources on Tegra mobile hardware in recent years, but it was only a year ago that the company produced its first full Android device, the Nvidia Shield. While the handheld co...
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(4-traders.com) COIMBATORE: Three men, including the manager of Central Bank of India, Gandhipuram branch, were charged with cheating a city resident by forging documents and attempting to get his property transferred to their names on T...
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(4-traders.com) MUMBAI: Bajaj Finserv will sell part of its stake in its life and non-life insurance joint ventures to its foreign partner Allianz once the insurance Act is amended. The company has said that amendments to the Act would b...
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(4-traders.com) MUMBAI: Market regulator Sebi on Thursday barred Gammon India chairman Abhijit Rajan from the market on charges of insider trading in the shares of group company Gammon Infrastructure Projects. Gammon India owns 71% in Ga...
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(4-traders.com) BANGALORE: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has once again put in a remarkable performance. Revenue grew sequentially by 5.5% to $3.69 billion in the quarter ended June, significantly faster than many analysts' expectation...
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Figure shows highest jump since November 2010
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Group has signed a 20-year agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Hotels (ADNH) Co to manage the new hotel
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Master community includes 100 luxury serviced residences; extensive onsite retail and recreation facilities; construction value AED2.5 billion
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‘Invest,’ now on Apple Newsstand, has tips and testimonials on setting up business in Dubai
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Agreement sees Strata outsource central function in treatment of composite materials for production of A380 Flap Track Fairings
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The agreement will allow NewPort to adopt rail as a transport solution for its shipping and logistics services in the region
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The new low-sulphur product offers better performance while ensuring a cleaner environment
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Posts 13.7% jump in Q1 net, on higher refining margins, better petrochem earnings and surge in US shale gas biz
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SYDNEY: Eleventh hour negotiations to win Indian approval for a breakthrough global trade pact may not have succeeded in the end despite initial signs of progress, sources involved in the discussions said on Saturday.
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TOKYO: Japan will offer at least 2 million yen ($19,700) in subsidies for fuel-cell vehicles, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said according to media, as the government and Japanese carmakers including Toyota Motor Corp join forces to speed up...
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentina has signed deals to borrow $7.5 billion from China at a time when the Latin American country cannot tap global capital markets because of disputes over unpaid debt.
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India has not provided any clear description of exactly what changes it would like made to the agreement
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Group also confirmed that it is aiming to launch an initial public offering of shares in Synchrony Financial, its North American store credit business
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Ecommerce firm’s public statement shines a light on China’s rough and tumble journalism culture
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4,000 RSE-listed firms worth Rs 2 lakh cr haven't moved to national exchanges, deadline for shutdown of RSEs expired over a month ago
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Senior ministers have refused on comment on whether Russian leader Vladimir Putin would be invited to the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane
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Analysts at HSBC said Christoph Mueller’s departure would be a loss to the business
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Number of first-time buyers fell to 72,700 in the first six months of 2009
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The Aditya Birla Group flagship had clocked a net profit of 669 crore during the April-June quarter of the last fiscal, it said in a statement.
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Watchmaker would be the biggest international group to seek entry into country’s 100%-owned single-brand retail segment
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RIL, operator of the world's largest single location refinery complex, earned $8.7 for turning every barrel of crude oil into fuel in the first quarter of this financial year as compared to a gross refining margin of $6.7 a barrel a year...
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Reliance Industries has posted good growth in Q1 of the current financial year.
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When Malagasy entrepreneur Andry Ravololonjatovo came up with the idea of a hi-tech translation service named after a local bird, the Drongo, he hesitated about registering the patent. In many countries in Africa, protection of intellect...
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The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has forecast the Thai economy will grow by at least 2% this year now that political stability has returned.
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A former senior official of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority who did not want to be named told IANS that one of the earliest decisions by the central government was that the FIPB would not concern itself with the insura...
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Silver followed suit and eased by Rs 350 to Rs 45,150 per kg on reduced offtake by industrial units and coin makers.
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You need a six-month study of your spending habits to save money on the grocery bill
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After years of adrift New Delhi is gearing up to give a major thrust to manufacturing
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Net sales, however, grow to Rs 5,989 crore
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The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange General Index (ADI) gained 186.04 or 3.84 per cent last week to close at 5,033.18
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Investors looking for the market to keep rising should also temper expectations
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Business is booming at Washington’s boutique lobby shops.Of more than a dozen small firms contacted by The Hill, eight said their lobbying revenue was up during the most recent quarter, which ran from April to June. The deadline for repo...
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the capital would be raised by the banks without diluting public sector characteristics in them. So, the government stake in the banks would remain over 51 per cent.
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CBI alleged that Vimal Barot of Showman Group in Mumbai in connivance with then Branch Manager Pritam Vidyadhar Nagarkar and unknown private persons of seven corporate groups committed fraud of Rs 220 crore with the bank.
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At present, 58 per cent of the population has bank account.
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CAG said that private refiners export balance petroleum products they produce at prices comparable to EPP/free-on-board (FOB), which are lower than TPP/import parity price (IPP).
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He said the capital would be raised by the banks without diluting public sector characteristics in them
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The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) approval is on the condition that aggregate foreign investment will not exceed composite sectoral cap of 74 per cent (49 per cent under automatic route and beyond it to 74 per cent under approval route),...
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Also in this week's tech headlines: Visa looks to boost online shopping, a Wall Street cyber scare, and fears that driverless cars could be used as "lethal weapons."
