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Buying Used: Hot to choose a preowned vehicle that will provide years of loyal service.
Prices on used vehicles have climbed due to reduced new vehicle sales the past several years, a drop in leasing and fewer trade-ins. Prices on fuel-efficient models have increased with particular speed, with values up 20 percent from January to May 2011,...Tags: Passenger Cars, Vehicles, Consumers, Kelley Blue Book LLC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Google faces new federal antitrust probe: source
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday. The...Tags: Antitrust Issues, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime, Facebook, Google Inc.
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Google faces new federal antitrust probe - source
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc , which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday....Tags: Antitrust Issues, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime, Google Inc.
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ITC: Microsoft Xbox doesn't violate Motorola Mobility patent
Microsoft Corp. did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent when it made its Xbox gaming console, the International Trade Commission ruled Thursday. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into...
Tags: Entertainment, Justice System, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Crime, Law and Justice, Gaming
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ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. If...Tags: Entertainment, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Justice System, Gaming, Crime, Law and Justice
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California approves Tesoro's buy of BP refinery
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp has received formal approval from California's attorney general to buy a BP Plc refinery for more than $2 billion. Attorney General Kamala Harris said her office and the California Energy Commission...Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime, BP Plc
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Tesoro wins US antitrust approval to buy California BP refinery
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp. has received formal antitrust approval to buy a BP refinery in southern California without conditions. The Federal Trade Commission, which assessed the deal to ensure that it complied with U.S....Tags: Antitrust Issues, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime, BP Plc
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EXCLUSIVE-US approval of Tesoro BP refinery buy could come soon
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Federal antitrust regulators are prepared to approve U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp.'s proposed deal to buy a BP refinery in southern California, three sources told Reuters. The Federal Trade Commission, which assessed the...Tags: Antitrust Issues, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime, BP Plc
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EDC agrees to letter of support for Phoebe
The Albany Herald, Ga.The Albany-Dougherty Economic Development Commission board voted unanimously Wednesday to write a letter in support of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital's purchase of the former Hospital Corporation of America-owned Palmyra Medical Center, a purchase that...Tags: Economic Policy, U.S. Supreme Court, Economy, Business and Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, Economy
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Watch out for unauthorized charges on cellphone bills
Take a line-by-line look at your cellphone bill — all dozen or so pages. See a $9.99 charge for horoscopes, flirting tips or some such thing that you didn't request? If so, you've been crammed. Once only a big problem with landline telephones,...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers, Horoscopes, Lawyers
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The Record (Hackensack, N.J.), Your Money's Worth column
The Record, Hackensack, N.J.When's the last time you went into a bank? For many of us, trips to a local bank were once near the top of our weekly to-do list, but technology has changed that dramatically, allowing us to do most of our banking from the convenience of home or...Tags: Banking, Federal Reserve, Credit and Debt, Consumers, Computer Hardware
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GE gets U.S. antitrust approval to buy oil pump maker Lufkin
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - General Electric Co has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy oilfield pump maker Lufkin Industries Inc, a $2.98 billion deal that will allow GE to sharply increase its presence in the fast-growing market to extract oil and...Tags: Energy Resources, Antitrust Issues, General Electric Company, Anti Trust Crime, Corporate Crime
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