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Your medical devices could be vulnerable to cyber threats
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Gigi Douban
Jul 10, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to improve the cybersecurity of medical devices.
Military commissaries closed by sequester
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Gigi Douban
Jul 8, 2013
Monday is day one of the sequester-driven defense cuts, including a one-day a week closure of all domestic military grocery stores.
Who's afraid of 5 percent mortgage rates?
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Gigi Douban
Jun 28, 2013
Do fast-rising interest rates threaten the growing recovery in housing? Experts say prices are still low enough to attract buyers.
What's the future of the referendum industry after Prop 8?
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Gigi Douban
Jun 27, 2013
After yesterday's Supreme Court decision, the same sex marriage ban in California, Prop 8, is effectively no more. So what's the future of referenda in the wake of the high court decision?
Car market may be up, but deals are hard to find
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Gigi Douban
Jun 3, 2013
U.S. auto sales are expected to show strong growth in May as Americans snap up new cars and switch to more fuel efficient models. It's great for the car companies, but the deals aren't as sweet for consumers.
Rolodexes: A thing of the past?
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Gigi Douban
May 30, 2013
Private equity group KKR has nabbed David Petraeus for his global Rolodex. In the age of Microsoft Outlook and smartphones, does anyone really use a Rolodex anymore?
Two years after the Partnership for Healthier America, have calorie counts decreased?
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Gigi Douban
May 30, 2013
In 2010, 16 food and beverage companies promised to reduce calories as part of the First Lady’s Partnership for a Healthier America. Two years later, how have they done?
As e-books rise, smaller book stores are still growing
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Gigi Douban
May 29, 2013
As the publishing industry comes together at BookExpo America in New York, e-books are all the rage. How are smaller stores hanging on so well?
Will baseball be at the next Olympics? Not likely
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Gigi Douban
May 28, 2013
Wrestling may be out, rock climbing may be in. But Major League Baseball doesn't want to take time out of its regular season to play in the Olympics.
Tapping the trades for good jobs and good money
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Gigi Douban
May 23, 2013
Trades like plumbing, welding, and metal work are in heavy demand as the construction industry recovers from the recession.