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DealBook Column: Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:53pm EST by By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
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"Active users" add up in Facebook's prospectus, but some of those clicks aren't on the Web site.
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DealBook: MF Global Trustee Sheds New Light on Chaos at Firm
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:50pm EST by By AZAM AHMED and BEN PROTESS
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Underpinning the misuse of customer money was a state of utter chaos at the firm, investigators said, as it rushed to sell assets and unwind positions to stay afloat.
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Greece to Eliminate 15,000 Government Jobs
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:29pm EST by By NIKI KITSANTONIS and DAVID JOLLY
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The cuts are part of new austerity measures that Athens must agree on to secure rescue funds from international lenders.
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Frequent Flier: With Champagne as Entry, Passport Control Is Easy
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:15pm EST
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Michelle DeFeo, executive vice president of Laurent-Perrier Champagne in the United States, actually enjoys going through passport control.
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White House Moves to Tighten Sanctions on Iran
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:06pm EST by By JACKIE CALMES
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The actions include freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in the United States.
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Itineraries: Clever Ways to Avoid Airline Baggage Fees
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:05pm EST by By JANET MORRISSEY
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As airlines come up with ever more ancillary fees, travelers are figuring out creative ways to avoid them.
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Emil Boc, Romanian Prime Minister, Resigns Amid Protests
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:59pm EST by By NICHOLAS KULISH
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After weeks of protests, Emil Boc, Romania’s prime minister, resigned Monday, the latest European leader to fall victim to a mood of public outrage over austerity measures and stagnant growth.
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Bits Blog: Start-Up Nicira Plans to Disrupt Networking Giants
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:21pm EST by By QUENTIN HARDY
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A small company called Nicira and a few other scrappy players are pursuing what is called software-defined networking.
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Media Decoder Blog: Verizon Teaming With Redbox for DVD and Streaming Service
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:20pm EST by By AMY CHOZICK
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The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.
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DealBook: Europe's Banks Reluctant to Aid Companies in Need of Cash
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:07pm EST by By MARK SCOTT
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As profits and sales slip, some European companies are scrambling to pay their bills, at a time when banks grow increasingly hesitant to lend.
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BUSINESS: Business Day Live | February 6, 2012
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:25am EST
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The business model of social media sites like Facebook are threatened by the increasing use of mobile devices.
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Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:10am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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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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Advertising: Super Bowl Commercials, From Charming to Smarmy
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:10am EST by By STUART ELLIOTT
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A that brought back its chimps dressed as humans.Risk-taking, rule-breaking ideas were as hard to find among the more than 50 Super Bowl commercials as good taste in a GoDaddy ad.
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NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to ‘Smash’
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:07am EST by By BILL CARTER
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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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Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Took Research
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:03am EST by By ANDREW POLLACK
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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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Daily Stock Market Activity
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:03am EST by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Share prices closed fractionally lower as investors awaited negotiations in Greece, where creditors were demanding austerity measures in return for more money.
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Economix Blog: Marriage Is for Rich People
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:00am EST by By CATHERINE RAMPELL
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Dwindling marriage rates are concentrated among the poor -- the very people whose living standards would be most improved by having a second household income.
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After a Year, The Daily Tablet Paper Struggles
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:58am EST by By AMY CHOZICK
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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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$800 Million Chinese Fund to Back Film Projects
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:50am EST by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
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Sun Media Group is joining Harvest Fund Management to create Harvest Seven Stars Media Private Equity, which will back entertainment ventures in China and abroad.
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Facebook’s Mobility Challenge
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:47am EST by By JENNA WORTHAM
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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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Print News Organizations Plunge Into Live Video
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:42am EST by By BRIAN STELTER
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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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The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:40am EST by By DAVID CARR
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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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E.U. Rebuffs China's Challenge to Pollution Plan
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:23am EST by By JAMES KANTER
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The system, which requires airlines to account for all of their emissions on flights involving European airports, is the Union's boldest move to date to protect the climate.
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DealBook: Lazard's Profit Plummeted in Fourth Quarter
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:13am EST by By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and AZAM AHMED
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Lazard, the investment bank, said on Monday that fourth-quarter earnings dropped 99 percent, as its core deal-making businesses took a hit.
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DealBook: Blankfein to Speak Out for Same-Sex Marriage
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:43am EST by By SUSANNE CRAIG
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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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A New Question of Internet Freedom
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:40am EST by By DAVID JOLLY
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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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Greece Agrees to Harsh New Spending Cuts
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:00am EST by By RACHEL DONADIO and NIKI KITSANTONIS
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The interim government agreed to cut spending this year by 1.5 percent of Greece’s gross domestic product, but members have yet to agree on details of austerity measures.
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Markets Wary as Greek Talks Drag
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:30am EST by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Markets were in a jittery mood on Monday as talks dragged on between Greek political leaders over a fresh austerity package that is required if the debt-ridden country is to get a crucial bailout package.
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Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:29am EST by By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
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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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Mortgage Relief Plan Is Closer to Winning Support of California
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:24am EST by By SHAILA DEWAN and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
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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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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Saluting Teamwork
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Military leaders want their troops to be committed to one another and their mission rather than going after individual rewards -- and maybe there's a lesson in that for the rest of us, an economist writes.
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Economic Reports for the Week of Feb. 6
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:00am EST
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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
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:53am EST
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The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.