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- Shoe retailer Zappos.com is victim of cyber attack
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The popular online store's computers are hit by a hacker who gained access to customer information. The company says only partial credit card numbers were exposed.Zappos.com, the popular shoe...[more]
- Legal battle spins around the Globes
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which created and owns the Globes, in a lawsuit has accused the award show's TV producer, Dick Clark Productions, of violating their partnership by signing a...[more]
- Hollywood's two main actors unions reach tentative deal to merge
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The consolidation of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists would end a decades-long rivalry between the two groups to organize actors. After a marathon...[more]
- BMW recalling 89,000 Mini brand cars over faulty water pumps
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Nearly 89,000 Mini brand cars, including the Mini Cooper line of vehicles, are being recalled in the U.S. because of faulty water pumps that can malfunction and potentially cause engine compartment...[more]
- Great wall of Chinese bureaucracy derails Southland investor
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Winston Chung finds a rocky road to fortune as deals unravel for the Balboa Bay Club and Resort, a mansion once owned by Nicolas Cage and a plan to boost production at a Riverside RV company....[more]
- AT&T jacks up 'measured' phone service rate because it can
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The state Public Utilities Commission no longer regulates basic rates, so AT&T doesn't have to justify the 25% increase to $15.37 a month.With bills for pretty much everything steadily rising, some...[more]
- Google launches ad campaign to ease privacy concerns
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
In its Good to Know effort, Google will spend tens of millions on ads in U.S. newspapers and magazines and in public places such as subways to urge people to protect their personal information...[more]
- China's Internet users grow 12% in a year, topping 500 million
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The number of Web users in China soared past 500 million last year, explosive growth that has elevated Chinese Internet companies and challenged social and political discourse in the...[more]
- Wikipedia to go offline to protest anti-piracy legislation
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Websites such as Wikipedia plan a one-day blackout over SOPA and PIPA, which they say could lead to censorship. The bills' advocates say misinformation is inflaming passions without solving...[more]
- Steve Jobs doll canceled after Apple and family object, site says
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
In Icons, which offered the Steve Jobs doll, says it will 'aim to' refund customers who ordered the figurine modeled after the late Apple co-founder.An eerily lifelike Steve Jobs doll will not be...[more]
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