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JetBlue Starts Selling Blankets and Pillows
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 11:59pm EDT by By MICHELINE MAYNARD
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No more free pillows and blankets on JetBlue Airways, but they will be sold for $7 on flights over two hours.
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Johnson & Johnson Receives Subpoena on Bile Duct Stents
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 11:54pm EDT by By BLOOMBERG NEWS
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The subpoena of Johnson & Johnson broadens an investigation that has touched its competitors Abbott Laboratories and Boston Scientific.
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New President at Enterprise Rentals
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 11:51pm EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Pamela M. Nicholson was named president of the privately held company, succeeding Donald L. Ross, who continues as vice chairman.
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America’s Got a Yen for Summer Talent Show
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 11:20pm EDT by By BILL CARTER
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The days of creating big reality-show hits in the summer may be over. Still, at least one expert in the field, a gentleman named Simon Cowell, would beg to differ.
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Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:52am EDT by By VIKAS BAJAJ
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Homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers, just as the problems with subprime mortgages have begun to level off.
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Verizon Unions Postpone Strike, Citing Progress
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:38am EDT by By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
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Two unions representing 65,000 workers at Verizon postponed a strike threatened for Sunday morning, citing progress in late-night labor negotiations.
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An Acid-Tongued Maverick Keeps Bankers on the Edge of Their Seats
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:18am EDT by By LOUISE STORY
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Richard X. Bove is one of the few analysts to predict the housing market blow-up. He is also one of the few whose advice would have made money for investors over the past year.
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Advertising: The High Cost of a ‘Free Credit Report’
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:13am EDT by By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
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Catchy television ads for FreeCreditReport.com don’t highlight another catch tied to the service: a monthly fee.
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Blog Posts Poke Holes in ‘Taste Test’ by Microsoft
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:13am EDT by By DAN MITCHELL
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Deserved or not, the Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft gets a bad rap. But the company’s effort to repair Vista’s reputation did not win rave reviews either.
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On Facebook, an 11-Letter Synonym for Scrabulous Turns Out to Be Wordscraper
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:13am EDT by By HEATHER TIMMONS
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People who were addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook have migrated by the thousands to Wordscraper.
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Applications Spur Carriers to Relax Grip on Cellphones
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:06am EDT by By LAURA M. HOLSON
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The proliferation of new applications and the realization that they make cellphones more popular has convinced carriers that they need to give consumers more freedom.
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Intel’s Line of Graphics Chips Could Have Broader Uses
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:01am EDT by By JOHN MARKOFF
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Intel said it would initially aim its new microprocessor family, code-named Larrabee, at the personal computer graphics market.
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Media Talk: NBC Ad Pairs ‘Mummy’ and Olympics
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:00am EDT by By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
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NBC executives call the company’s TV ads plugging its new movie, “The Mummy,” and the Beijing Olympics synergy. Some viewers call it confusing.
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Media Talk: A Rare CD by Today’s Hot Boy Band: Bids Start at $160. Do I Hear $200?
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 2:00am EDT by By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
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To teenage girls this summer, few things are hotter than the Jonas Brothers, and the sole album on their back list, the out-of-print “It’s About Time.”
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Media Talk: House Goes Home, but Video Goes Online via Cellphone
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By BRIAN STELTER
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Representative John Culberson, a Texas Republican, acted as a citizen journalist, albeit a partisan one, covering Republicans in the House, after the chamber had adjourned for its recess.
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Looking Ahead: The Week’s Major Economic Reports
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Economic news will be led by the Federal Reserve’s meeting on Tuesday to discuss the economy and interest rate policy.
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Market Place: Newspapers Could Be Bargains, but Few Are Buying
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
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The weak economy and tight credit market have slowed buying in all sorts of media, but the drop-off is especially pronounced in newspapers.
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Link by Link: An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The State Department’s creation of “Diplopedia,” an internal wiki, is part of its changing ethic from “a need to know culture” to a “need to share culture,” an employee said.
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Drilling Down: Read, Then Cut Along the Dashes
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:55am EDT by By ALEX MINDLIN
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Readers of Sunday newspapers are more likely than other Americans to use coupons, according to a survey released recently by Scarborough Research.
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Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:53am EDT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week included Monday’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and Tuesday’s auction of four-week bills.
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Jewish Channel Offers Issues, History and Offbeat Movies
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:52am EDT by By JOANNE KAUFMAN
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Elie Singer has prevailed in creating a cable outlet that’s been labeled the “Jewish HBO.”
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Screen Actors Guild Is Divided Against Itself
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:50am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES
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Infuriated by hard-line tactics used by SAG leaders in contract talks with studios, a less militant collection of actors has started a campaign to take over the guild.
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Media Outlets Are Seeking a Campaign Bounce of Their Own
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:48am EDT by By BRIAN STELTER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
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Voter interest in the presidential race may be soaring, but many media companies are struggling to translate coverage into repeat readers and viewers -- or revenue.
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The Media Equation: Grim News for a Paper in Jersey
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:47am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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In a state with a record of corruption that needs watching, its major newspaper is looking for buyouts from a quarter of the newsroom.
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A Textbook Example of Ranking Artworks
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:24am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.
