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Home Depot boosts profit, sales as housing market improves
Spring was waiting in the wings longer than expected, but the recuperating housing market was enough to boost Home Depot Inc.’s first-quarter earnings above Wall Street’s expectations. For the period ended May 5, the largest home-improvement...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Companies and Corporations, Earnings Forecasts, The Home Depot, Land Price
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, George W. Bush, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Bioterrorism
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Five things at stake for Apple at Senate tax hearing
Apple hardly seems the invincible name it was just one year ago. Faced with slower growth, a badly bruised stock price and questions about its innovation leadership, the company has plenty of fights on its hand. And now it has a new foe attempting to...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Tim Cook, Corporate Officers, Politics, John T. Chambers
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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business
SAN FRANCISCO — To punctuate his company's $1.1-billion purchase by Yahoo Inc., Tumblr co-founder and Chief Executive David Karp let loose in a blog post with a celebratory expletive. It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture, Corporate Officers, Online Advertising
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United Talent Agency shoots for the stars with new screening room
The numbers on United Talent Agency's new 130,000-square-foot Beverly Hills digs are notable. The Civic Center Drive property includes a 158-piece art collection, 11 conference rooms and a private plaza that can accommodate as many as 500 people....
Tags: Movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, Companies and Corporations, Television Industry, Arts and Culture
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Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd
Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawing fire from senior senators in both parties for using subsidiaries in Ireland to reduce its tax bill. But if Apple has its way, its bitter rival Google...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Politics, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Google CEO Larry Page opens up about his vocal cord problem
Google CEO Larry Page has come forward with the reason why he missed key company events in 2012. In a Google+ blog, the company co-founder said lingering problems with his voice caused him to miss Google's shareholders meeting and developers...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Computer Hardware, Corporate Officers, Larry Page, Verizon Communications
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Attention Abercrombie shoppers: Walk away
Anyone who has ever walked past an Abercrombie & Fitch store at the local mall knows that it's a place for queen bees and cool jocks. Hot, buff store employees greet customers at the front door. They don't say, "Fatties keep out." They don't have to....
Tags: Angelina Jolie, The Huffington Post, Companies and Corporations, Religion and Belief, Corporate Officers
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Unions protest any sale of Tribune papers to Koch brothers
California unions are increasing their opposition to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to the Koch brothers, urging the City Council to oppose such a deal and planning a protest for Tuesday. Charles and David Koch,...Tags: David Koch, AFL-CIO, Oaktree Capital Management, Finance, Tribune Company
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Gov. Brown vows to take hard line on budget
Spending 'in a wise way' | 10:53 a.m. As lawmakers debate more than a dozen different plans for raising additional taxes on things like cigarettes, marijuana, and oil, California Gov. Jerry Brown said he will take a hard line with his budget. “...
Tags: Regional Authority, Elections, Insurance, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...
Tags: Punishment, Environmental Issues, Insider Trading, Companies and Corporations, Prosecution
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BofA cuts 2 million customers loose
It's long been a basic tenet of the business world: You give us more business, we'll reward your loyalty with better deals. That's how cable companies operate with their service packages. That's how phone companies work. And until now, that's pretty...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Marketing, Mortgages, Bank of America Corp., Finance
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