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Tableau Software soars in trading debut

May 18, 2013

Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public offering.
Seattle-based Tableau Software Inc. provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations.
The shares jumped $17.50, or 56 percent, to $48.50 in morning trading. Earlier, the company sold 5 […]

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Consumer Prices in U.S. Dropped More Than Forecast in April - Bloomberg

May 16, 2013

The cost of living in the U.S. fell in April for a second month, the first back-to-back declines in inflation since late 2008, as fuel prices retreated.
The consumer-price index decreased 0.4 percent, the biggest decrease since December 2008, after falling 0.2 percent in March, according to Labor Department figures released today in Washington. Economists […]

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New Zealand

May 13, 2013

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said intervention won

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Immigration bill confronts hundreds of amendments

May 8, 2013

Democratic and Republican senators have filed hundreds of amendments to a landmark immigration bill that will face its first votes this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Many amendments filed by Republicans aim to boost border security and employment enforcement provisions in the bill. Supporters say that in some cases the real intent is to kill […]

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Construction jobs decline, but housing boom still strong

May 6, 2013

The sector lost about 6,000 jobs overall, according to the Labor Department’s jobs report. This was largely due to a decline in hiring for non-residential buildings or public works projects like roads or sewer plants. Combined, these two areas lost 19,700 jobs.

Meanwhile, home builders and their subcontractors added 13,300 workers, even more […]

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Toronto gives pedestrians more time to cross the street

May 5, 2013

Intersection by intersection, Mayor Rob Ford’s Toronto is quietly becoming friendlier to pedestrians.
Since January 2010, nearly a year before Ford took office, city transportation workers have been modifying hundreds of traffic signals per year to give people more time to cross the street.
Toronto previously required pedestrians to walk at 1.2 metres per second to […]

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Austerity on Trial With U.S. Versus Europe Amid New Evidence - Bloomberg

April 22, 2013

Global policy makers and economists are staging a retrial of austerity as new evidence arises.
Facing another slowdown in the world economy, the U.S. and International Monetary Fund are pitched against the euro area and U.K. over whether axing budgets and debt is the recipe for recovery or recession. In academia, professors Kenneth Rogoff and […]

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Bixi: Many ways to fund a bike-share program

April 20, 2013

There are many ways to finance a bike-share program.
One is the public model, where the city or region owns the program and it’s operated on a day-to-day basis by a contractor. Then there are public-private partnerships, run by for-profits or non-profits. And, as with Toronto’s Bixi, there is the private non-profit model.
The public model, seen […]

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GM to roll out new line of smaller pickups

April 17, 2013

General Motors plans to unveil a line of revamped midsize pickup trucks later this year with gas mileage and features designed to take sales from Toyota’s Tacoma.
The trucks will replace the aging Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. GM North America President Mark Reuss ((ROY-ss)) says they’ll be able to do 95 percent of the work […]

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Samsung

April 15, 2013

Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, will hit Canada as early as April 27.
Mobile providers are now taking pre-orders for the new five-inch smartphone, Samsung’s rival to Apple’s iPhone.
Those who pre-order a phone, for about $200 on a three-year contract or $700 without a contract, should get it by the end of the month […]

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