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Gadget lovers are waiting with bated breath for the much-anticipated unveiling of the Apple tablet, but don’t expect it to take the world by storm the way the iPod and iPhone did.
"There will be a strong interest in it, but it won’t be the wave of the future," said James Brehm, analyst at Frost […]

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Retailers are counting on time-crunched shoppers to swarm stores on "Super Saturday," but a heavy winter storm threatened to strand them at home on the final weekend before Christmas.
A snowstorm blanketed the U.S. East Coast early on Saturday, with storm warnings in effect from North Carolina in the south to southern New England. […]

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 […]

After weeks of partisan debate, the Senate voted on Wednesday to lengthen unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks and to extend the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit.
The closely watched legislation would extend jobless benefits in all states by 14 weeks. Those that live in states with unemployment greater than 8.5% would receive an additional […]

Employers cut more jobs from their payrolls in September and the unemployment rate hit another 26-year high, as the long-battered U.S. labor market took an unexpected turn for the worse, according to a government report Friday.
The Labor Department said there was a net loss of 263,000 jobs in the month, up from a revised […]

The cost of entry onto crowded Manhattan island, one of the most expensive real estate markets in the nation, may have gotten a little steeper in the past three months. Or not.
Reports released Friday by four of the city’s biggest real estate agencies showed very different results. By one calculation, the median price […]

OTTAWA–It’s too early to be talking about economic recovery from the global recession, a cautious Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said after a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20.
Speaking from London, Flaherty said yesterday the ministers agreed the world economy is stabilizing but "no clear recovery is evident."
It’s prudent to remain […]

If banks ever had a capital problem, it certainly isn’t showing.
Large and small lenders alike have successfully raised billions of dollars in recent months, thanks in large part to a renewed appetite in the banking industry by investors. And some experts anticipate it won’t slow down anytime soon.
Secondary offerings of stock, for example, have […]

When General Motors executives stopped in St. Louis last fall to meet with auto dealers, the economy was entering a free fall.
"We were right in the middle of the meltdown when we were out doing this. We just didn’t know it," said Mark LaNeve, GM vice president for sales. "I mean we […]

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is getting a new leader next month at a time when health care facilities are feeling the pinch of the troubled economy and facing the uncertainties of health care reform.
But Richard Liekweg, who will become president of Barnes-Jewish and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital on Sept. 14, believes BJC HealthCare is on […]