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Time Warner Cable is shifting its charitable focus to kids and technology.
The company this week launched Connect a Million Minds (CAMM), a new education and awareness initiative designed to help address the country’s continuing decline in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Aimed at inspiring a new generation of problem solvers, the company […]

The state of Kentucky has begun accepting applications for an emergency extension of unemployment benefits.
President Obama signed the benefits extension into law on Nov. 6. It can provide as much as 14 additional weeks of federally funded benefits to unemployed Kentuckians who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state benefits and all other federally funded […]

General Motors Co posted a 2.2 percent drop in U.S. sales in November from a year earlier, weighed down by brands it plans to divest or close, and said it would raise production in North America by about 75 percent in the first quarter.
Sales totaled 151,427 vehicles in November, down from 154,877 a year […]

South Korea’s exports rose for the first time in 13 months in November.
Overseasshipments gained 18.8 percent from a year earlier to $34.3 billion, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said today in Gwacheon. The median estimate of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 22.8 percent increase. Imports rose 4.7 percent to […]