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NAGOYA, Japan — The airy new Sony store in this central Japanese city has floor-to-ceiling windows, sleek white counters and friendly employees, called stylists, who offer advice and tailored counseling on Sony gadgets.
“It’s just like the Apple store,” laughed Yuka Hara, 23, a publishing company employee who was one of thousands of […]
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United Insurance Holding Corp. said state mandates and reinsurance rate hikes pulled down earnings in the fourth quarter and full year of 2009.
For the fourth quarter, United Insurance reported a net loss of $1.2 million, or 11 cents a share, compared with net income of $6.8 million, or 65 cents a share, during the fourth […]
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Jerry York always loved to play the subversive, the man behind the scenes who manipulated the levers of power.
The last time I saw him, 18 months ago, it was a vintage York moment. We met in a nearly deserted restaurant in Bloomfield Hills in mid-afternoon. He was dressed in a black mock turtleneck and […]
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Stripes convenience stores throughout Texas stand to gain up to $175,000 in rebates by joining TXU Energy's Energy Efficiency Rebate Program, which gives businesses rebates for implementing sensible procedures to conserve energy in their facilities.
Harlingen-based Stripes has signed a 29-month contract with TXU Energy and agreed to retrofit T12 fluorescent fixtures with energy-efficient T8s as […]
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Europe’s ongoing fiscal trauma may present opportunities for U.S. investors.
There could, for example, be possibilities in European stocks that are depressed in price or in stocks of the U.S. multinational companies most likely to gain from European misfortune.
The primary risk is that ongoing problems involving not only Greece but other […]
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ST. LOUIS — Pinnacle Entertainment blinked.
After eight months of staring down powerful Missouri regulators over the fate of the President Casino, the Las Vegas-based gaming company agreed Wednesday to close the ailing downtown riverboat by July 1.
The move comes as a surprise, one that could have broad implications for St. Louis’ $1 […]
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New Zealand manufacturing sales increased the most in more than seven years in the fourth quarter, led by higher production in the meat industry.
Sales volumes adjusted to remove inflation rose 3.1 percent from the previous three months, when they fell a revised 1.7 percent, Statistics New Zealand said in a statement in Wellington […]
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General Motors has recalled 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac models in North America for power steering failures that are tied to 14 crashes and one injury in the United States, the company said Tuesday.
The recall affects 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2007-2010 Pontiac G5 models sold in the United States, 2005-2006 Pontiac Pursuit vehicles […]
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Malaysia’s government-linked companies and businessmen are being pressed to boost spending at home amid concern that more money is being invested abroad than flowing into the country.
Fresh ideas to stimulate investment may be included in the government’s so-called New Economic Model, International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said in an interview on […]
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Ronnie’s Ice Cream, a 31-year-old frozen dessert manufacturer, will move from St. Louis to Crestwood’s Watson Industrial Park Drive this year, co-owner Ron Ryan said after the Board of Aldermen approved a conditional use permit Tuesday night.
Ronnie’s now makes Quezel Sorbets and other specialty desserts at 1919 South Grand Boulevard cash advance […]
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