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Stacey Vanek Smith

Reporter, Marketplace

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Stacey Vanek Smith is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.

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Want faster internet connection? Go to the moon.

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 29, 2014
Scientists from NASA and MIT have developed a way to create a wi-fi hotspot on the moon.
So it's made out of cheese AND is a wi-fi hot spot?
David DeHetre / Creative Commons
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Data brokers set the price tag on your head

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 28, 2014
Now, the FTC wants them to give us some personal information.
The websites of Bing, Microsoft and Yahoo are displayed on a computer monitor in San Anselmo, California.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Oh Canada... the black hole for U.S. stores

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 22, 2014
Why has Canada proved so difficult for U.S. business?
A Sears store at Chinook Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sears Canada today posted a steep fall in quaterly sales.
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How much would an all-American iPhone cost?

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 20, 2014
A 100 percent U.S.-made iPhone would cost more than $2,000.
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Meet Happy! The unsettling new Happy Meal mascot

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 20, 2014
McDonald's new Happy Meal mascot: marketing fail or counter-intuitive genius?
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Coaching the Coach

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 15, 2014
Executive coaches are a booming business... But what exactly do they do?
Jill Abramson , former New York Times executive editor, appeared at the Wired Business Conference on May 7, 2013 in New York.
Brad Barket/Getty Images for WIRED
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Google vs. the 'Right to be Forgotten'

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 13, 2014
Google told Marketplace that it was disappointed in the decision.
Google.com
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Why Apple would want to buy Beats

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 9, 2014
Apple reportedly wants to by Beats Electronics... but it's hard to figure out why.
The image illustrates the White Solo Beats by Dr. Dre. Apple is allegedly in talks to purchase Beats eletronics- an acquisition that would cost a reported $3.2 billion.
Matthew Raymundo/ Via Wikimedia Commons
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Shelf vs. Script: Why Merck's offloading allergy pills

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 6, 2014
Turns out prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs are two very different businesses.
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Goodbye Norton anti-virus software

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 5, 2014
The demise of anti-virus software.
A customer walks past anti-virus software at an Office Max store in Miami, Florida. Senior vice president of Symantec Information Security Brian Dye said in the Wall Street Journal that anti-virus software is "dead."
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