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The 10 Most Expensive Halloween Costumes of 2010
Expensive Halloween costumes are recession-proof. How else could certain hedge fund managers and health insurance company CEOs wow…
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Sony Stops Manufacturing the Walkman
Image: Esa Sorjonen/Wikimedia About a decade later than you’d think they would have, Sony finally stopped manufacturing the…
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Fairfield Interview #4: Diana Bourgeois of Networking in High Heels
This is the fourth interview in our Fairfield Small Business Challenge series. Diana Bourgeois helps women connect. Through…
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A New Answer to an Old Interview Question
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An Honest Closure Sign
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Facebook Apps Secretly Share User Info
Image: CNET’s Surveillance State Another Facebook privacy gaffe has hit the fan, thanks to a Wall Street Journal…
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This Week’s Weird Jobs
You have to be pretty desperate to pursue some of the jobs on this list, mostly because they…
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Interview With Mark Fields, Ford’s President of the Americas
Interview and report by Drea Knufken. In an economy filled with zombies and sinking ships, the Ford Motor…
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Boss’s Day 2010 is Saturday, Oct. 16
If you want to honor your boss for Boss’s Day 2010, Friday might be your day. The Hallmark…
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15 Religious Swindles That Shame the Holy Name
What crime combines billions in annual earnings, sneaky accounting, a lack of media coverage, and the good Lord…
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Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp. Buys Major Texas Shale Stake
Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, is buying a $1.08 billion (or 33%) stake in Chesapeake Energy…
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Abbott Labs Recalls Obesity Drug Meridia
Abbott Labs has recalled the obesity drug Meridia in the US for causing an increased risk of stroke…
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Gap Harnesses Hatred of New Gap Logo
Gap’s redesigned logo, featured above in its full glory, is so detested that someone created a Twitter vent…
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25 Tycoons Who Run the World
“Elephant bumping.” That’s how Warren Buffett refers to meeting other tycoons in Alice Schroeder’s biography of him. Who…
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Lawyers, Politicians Feed on Foreclosure Freeze
Image: Brendel Almost two weeks ago, a GMAC mortgage processor shared that he had approved hundreds of thousands…