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Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:18:39 -0400...

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Foreign investment in China falls in September

BEIJING — Foreign investment in China fell again in September and a government spokesman said Friday it was too early to forecast a recovery in trade. The decline in foreign direct investment added to mixed signals about the health of China's economy...

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Bain bus protestors blast Mitt Romney's outsourcing record

Dozens of workers from companies affiliated with Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, demonstrated in Boston yesterday, blasting Romney for vowing he'll be tough on China, the very country to which...

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Boston startup moving money

Scvngr, the Hub startup that uses mobile games to motivate consumers, has shifted focus to its rapidly expanding payment platform LevelUp, nearly doubling its monthly transaction amount in just four months. "Scvngr (pronounced Scavenger) is doing really...

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Patriots score 'Legendary' anthem

The struggling New England Patriots [team stats] have a new song penned by Aerosmith, sung by Steven Tyler to the tune of the band's "Legendary Child" and set to drop today just in time to psyche up the team for a crucial AFC East showdown with the New...

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Starbucks opens first India store in Mumbai

MUMBAI, India — Starbucks inaugurated its first store in India Friday in a historic building in southern Mumbai as the Seattle-based coffee giant seeks growth in a market long associated with tea drinkers. "It is perhaps the most elegant, beautiful,...

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Business - BostonHerald.com

Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:10:07 -0400...

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Nordic telecom TeliaSonera to slash 2,000 jobs

STOCKHOLM — Nordic telecommunications company TeliaSonera AB says it will cut 2,000 jobs, or 7 percent of its staff, after sales and profits slumped in the third quarter. Net profit in the three-month period was down 1.2 percent to 4.80 billion kronor...

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Nike ends contract with Lance Armstrong

NEW YORK — Nike is severing ties with famed cyclist Lance Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping and misled the company for more than a decade. The clothing and footwear company said Wednesday that it was ending Armstrong's...

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Taxi-hailing smartphone app Hailo launches in Boston

An overseas startup that hails cabs for users with just two taps on their smartphones is pulling up in the Hub for the first time today. Hailo, an app-based taxi provider founded in 2011 by three London taxi drivers and three Internet entrepreneurs,...

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Candy Crowley's corrections highlight moderator role

NEW YORK — Candy Crowley's signature moment as moderator of Tuesday's rough-and-tumble presidential debate came when she was called upon to referee a dispute over President Barack Obama's description of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,...

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Candy Crowley edges into fact-checker role

CNN's Candy Crowley ventured into dangerous territory last night, briefly playing the role of live fact-checker while moderating the feisty presidential title card. "Unless a moderator is going to offer live fact-checking of both candidates, she should...

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