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A defender of consistency in design, Marissa Mayer stands guard over the look and feel of Google’s search engine.
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Terry Widener has been selling newspaper ads for 35 years. But until last fall, Ms. Widener, a 53-year-old saleswoman at The Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tenn., had never sold an Internet ad.
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Then in a two-week sales “blitz” intended to test an innovative partnership between newspapers and Yahoo, [...]

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WASHINGTON — A group of liberal bloggers say they are teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn.org to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party further to the left.
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TOKYO — The Sony Corporation said Friday that Howard Stringer, its chief executive, would succeed Ryoji Chubachi as president in a move that would give the chief a freer hand in restructuring the electronics giant.
Sony will also reorganize its electronics and games divisions to better integrate the company’s sprawling businesses.
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Left alone in a cage with a mountain of cocaine, a lab rat will gorge itself to death. Caught up in a housing bubble, bankers will keep selling mortgage-backed securities — and amassing bonuses — until credit markets seize, companies collapse, and millions of investors lose their jobs [...]

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WASHINGTON — The future of the American auto industry is getting off to a slow start.
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Lachlan W. Seward, director of the loan program to encourage production of electric cars.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google began running small text ads on the pages of its Google News service this week, reviving a debate between the company and some struggling newspaper publishers, who have seen their businesses devastated by the shift of advertising to the Internet.
For more than six years, Google refrained from placing ads on [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.
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The case, initiated by the E.U. in January, accused Microsoft of illegally tying Internet Explorer to [...]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — During past downturns in technology spending, Dell tended to boast about its ability to weather the conditions better than competitors bogged down by higher-priced goods and cumbersome business models.
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In 2009, no such gloating has been heard.
Like its peers, Dell has watched as businesses [...]

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A federal appeals court affirmed the insider trading conviction of Joseph P. Nacchio, the former chief executive of Qwest Communications International, finding that a trial court had properly excluded expert witness testimony that Mr. Nacchio deemed crucial to his case.
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