Finance
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So Google's Buying Your Startup. Now What?
Google's M&A; chief has to persuade founders to stick around, often with financial incentives and the promise of expanded roles
- Facebook Shares Sliced, Diced
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Wall Street's Data Diggers at Center of U.S. Probe
Firms that sell research and access to industry experts are key to ongoing insider investigation
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Britain Looks for a Royal Wedding Dividend
The Prince William-Catherine Middleton nuptials promise to give the U.K. economy a boost
- Brazil Scoops Up Royal Wedding Knock-Offs
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Chris Farrell
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Earnings
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H&M Seeks Karl Lagerfeld Effect
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Olivia Sterns reports on Hennes & Mauritz AB's turn to Paris fashion house Lanvin to try to boost sales and recreate the effect that Karl Lagerfeld's line had on revenue in 2004.
- Facebook's $34 Billion Valuation
- Analysts Pare Revenue Growth Expectations
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Economy
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New Home Sales Drop
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly decreased 8.1 percent in October to a 283,000 annual rate, indicating near record-low borrowing costs are failing to lift the industry that precipitated the recession. (Source: Bloomberg)
- Pressure Grows on Euro
- Ireland Shows Supply-Side Shortcomings
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Funds
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SEC Focus on Insider Trading
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Joel Cohen, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, discusses a 3-year SEC investigation of consultants, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders, and investment bankers. (Source: Bloomberg)
- Ireland's Low Corporate Taxes
- Irish Hold Rescue Talks
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Investing News & Analysis
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Tough Times Spur Shifts in Corporate R&D Spending
Big companies' outlays have mounted during the recession as technology becomes integral to an increasing number of industries
- Global Beermakers Eye U.S. Craft Brewers' Growth
- A Costly Payday for Weyerhaeuser Shareholders?
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Personal Finance
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Online Brokers Upgrade Retail Investor Tools
Businessweek.com's latest look at new technologies for online investors presents trading sites that offer tools and strategies once reserved for professional traders
- In Hard Times, Dreams of Easy Money
- Financing Training for Career Changes
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Philanthropy
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Ebay's Omidyar on India, Africa
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Pierre Omidyar, chairman and founder of Ebay Inc., talks about technology and transparency initiatives for his Omidyar Network. Omidyar speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness". (ExcerpSource: Bloomberg)
- How Companies Can Truly Help in Haiti
- Haiti Earthquake Provokes Wave of Text Donations
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Real Estate
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New Home Sales Drop
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly decreased 8.1 percent in October to a 283,000 annual rate, indicating near record-low borrowing costs are failing to lift the industry that precipitated the recession. (Source: Bloomberg)
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- Stimulating New York Real Estate
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Retirement
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The Debt Commission's Free Ride for Boomers
The U.S. debt reduction commission's initial proposal gives those free-spending Baby Boomers a virtual pass on financial sacrifice, writes columnist Chris Farrell
- Boomers' Shrunken 401(k)s Spark Interest in Reverse Mortgages
- The Social Security Squeeze Can Be Solved
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Stocks & Markets
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How We'll Know If GM Is Really Fixed
Six metrics investors should watch to determine the success or failure of postbankruptcy General Motors
- As Commodity Costs Rise, Companies Try to Preserve Profits
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