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Focus on Facebook guides 1st year on job for Google CEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google’s CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressiv...

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Extra, extra: Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue
LOS ANGELES — Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They’re enticing people with a little free ...

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Tribune Broadcasting: No deal reached with DirecTV
NEW YORK (AP) — DirecTV Inc. subscribers in 19 U.S. markets lost access to certain programming late Saturday, after Tribune Broadcasting said it failed to reach a settlement with the satellite tele...

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World landmarks are dimmed to honor Earth Hour
LONDON — Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark Saturday, part of a global effort to highlight climate change. Earth Hour, held on the la...

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Drivers turn to phones for lowest gas prices
LOS ANGELES — With gas prices in record territory for this time of year, consumers are turning to their mobile devices and Web browsers to drive down costs. Several websites and mobile applicati...

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Dara Taylor edits a questionnaire created at Community Catalyst in Boston on March 16, at her home in St. Louis. Taylor is a consultant for the non-profit organization. She lived in Boston and worked at the company for two years before returning to St. Louis in 2010 after she got engaged and the couple decided they wanted to live closer to family.

Workers become mobile, commutes get longer
ST. LOUIS — Every Tuesday morning, Teri Dobbins-Baxter starts her commute at 4 a.m. She leaves home in the south suburbs of Chicago and goes to Midway Airport, where she hops a flight to St. Lou...

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Dean of art school— Master’s degree in Fine Arts with four years in a leadership capacity or related project area. Need entrepreneurial spirit with project management experience. Experience in hiri...

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Laura Lamb places a floral arrangements inside a delivery van Thursday outside of Rhew-Hendley Florist in Paducah. Lamb has been with Rhew-Hendley the past 12 years.

Feeling the heat of gas prices
Business owners have seen this movie before. Heading into summer gas prices heat up, as does talk of gas prices heating up. The latter may worry business owners more than the price at the pump. ...

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Eurozone countries build bigger ‘firewall’
LONDON — The 17 nations of the Eurozone agreed Friday to increase their bailout resources in an attempt to keep a lid on the debt crisis that has hobbled the region’s economy and raised doubts abou...

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Associated Press
The House Small Business Committee, led by chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., has recently approved eight bills that are aimed at making it easier for small businesses to win contracts with the agencies throughout the federal government.

Small biz contracting leads committee agenda
WASHINGTON — It sounds like a gold mine for small businesses: The more than half a trillion dollars that the federal government pays companies each year for all kinds of equipment and services. But...

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