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Sony Hopes Online Service Will Build Brand Loyalty   11/20/2009
Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said the service highlights an advantage that Sony has over rivals like Samsung...   Continue
North Slope workers dies in accident   11/19/2009
A North Slope worker was killed when a pickup truck pinned him against a section of pipe.BP spokesman Steve Rinehart identified the man as New Jersey resident Mike Phelan.Phelan was a BP contractor who worked for MISTRAS Group Inc., a Princeton Junction, N.J.-based outfit. Rinehart says it's...   Continue
Microsoft provides training vouchers in NC   11/19/2009
Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force.Gov. Beverly Perdue and the software giant announced Thursday in Charlotte the state's portion of Microsoft's Elevate...   Continue
Oil giant donates $1M to catalog Stevens papers   11/19/2009
Oil giant BP PLC has donated $1 million to the University of Alaska Fairbanks toward cataloging and processes papers from the congressional career of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.BP says the donation to will allow the Rasmuson Library to process more than 4,500 boxes of papers and media...   Continue
Alcoa idles Italy smelters, hurting 2,000 workers   11/19/2009
Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. said Thursday it will temporarily idle production at its two smelters in Italy, affecting about 2,000 workers, after a decision by the European Union left the company's ability to secure electricity for the plants at low rates uncertain.Italy for 10 years gave...   Continue
Oprah Winfrey's production company says she'll announce Friday that her show will end in 2011   11/19/2009
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew from a local Chicago talk show into the foundation of a multibillion dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.Winfrey, who became one of the most powerful...   Continue
Winfrey to announce Friday show will end in 2011   11/19/2009
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew from a local Chicago talk show into the foundation of a multibillion dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.Winfrey, who became one of the most powerful...   Continue
Vt. nuke critics renew campaign against relicense   11/19/2009
Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Thursday in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.Ice cream icons Ben...   Continue
Now the Botax? Once-shelved tax on face lifts, tummy tucks could help fund US health bill   11/19/2009
They call it the "Botax."The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans.President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of...   Continue
Applied Materials begins offer for Semitool   11/19/2009
Applied Materials Inc. said Thursday it has launched its $364 million tender offer to buy all the outstanding shares of Montana-based Semitool Inc.The chip manufacturing equipment maker is acquiring the company to tap the growing market for semiconductors that go into mobile gadgets including...   Continue

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