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I wasn't even aware of the existence of penny auctions until about 6 weeks ago. Now I can't imagine buying anything other than food or clothing anyplace else. My favorite is at ( http://tinyurl.com/TopBargains ) It took me a few days to figure out how to bid but now I am savings big bucks there. How they can sell iPads, Macbooks, HDTVs, Digital Cameras, Gaming Consoles, and more for steep discounts of 75%, 80%, or even 85% off retail price, I don't know. I do know that I bought my son an iPad there for less than $100 and my husband a $250 Lowe's gift card for $48. Why would I shop anyplace else?

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LATEST INTERNET MARKETING NEWS?Embrace The Online Marketing Era , Or Die http://www.nessbasch.com?

During your recent visit to the once favorite Borders bookstore down town to browse, someone may be saying this, ?I still can?t believe this is store is closing. This store is on the National Register overseas because that historic building used to be a bank. Can you even imagine? I still can?t even believe that Borders has filed for bankruptcy. I guess they just couldn?t keep up in in this internet age.?

With online shopping, and the advent of e-readers, and promises by retailers to deliver any book, anytime, anywhere, with cheaper pricing, consumers are abandoning the traditional brick and mortar bookstores, like Borders, similar to what they did with music stores a decade ago.

This made us pause to think. As small business owners, we must also be constantly changing or we will be left behind just like Borders. This is a lesson that we don?t want to learn the hard way. We must always be aware of the current and hottest market trends in the market so that we stay on top.

Seattle-based Amazon started as an online bookstore in 1995 selling hardcover and paperback books. Today, as the largest online retailer in the US, Amazon has added apparel, furniture, cosmetics electronics and more to its company. Its products are offered in dozens of categories, but people still think that Amazon only sells books. Amazon continues to stay on top because they continue to add new services.

Many lessons can be learned from Amazon through leveraging its power to grow our business:

Lesson 1: Diversify Your Products

An Online E- Commerce Store numerous ways to sell the same product. For instance, if you have a report, you can list the report as a physical product, in digital form as an eBook or even record it and offer it as an audio book. By changing the format, you can sell your products to millions of buyers in one click since digital shops stores credit card information in a user?s account.

It?s really easy for the buyer to add a product to his shopping cart.

In 2007 when Amazon announced the revolutionary wireless reading device, Kindle, and began selling books in the Kindle format, I bet Amazon never imagined that customers would be purchasing more Kindle books today then all printed books ? hardcover and paperback ? combined. With more than 950,000 eBooks, newspapers, magazines and blogs listed, buyers are flying to Amazon?s Kindle Store to purchase products that can be read on Kindle e-readers, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry and Android-based devices. Digital books are definitely here to stay!

Through Digital Publishing, it is easy to self-publish an eBook in minutes by converting and uploading it from a variety of preferred formats. You must own all the publishing rights to any content you upload for sale in the Worldwide Web E- Store. Digital Publishing pays you a royalty for each title you sell.

Another benefit to listing one or more of your products with online is that the listing of your products will also rank higher in the search engines based upon the key words in the name of your product. E- Commerce leads in its page rank and credibility with Google and other search engines, so your product page will get ranked quickly and often times will be ranked higher than your own web site!

By ranking in the top searches in Google and other search engines, your product will be exposed to more people. This means more potential sales. So, strategically placing key phrases in your product title helps you get ranked higher for those key words in Google and the other search engines.

By listing your products in an e-commerce, it can stores in a number of different formats, you are ahead of the game!

Lesson 2: Fulfillment of Products: Dependable & Quick

Did you know that E- Commerce Enabled Websites also allows merchants to access its world-class fulfillment capabilities to have a digital portal fulfilling orders for you? This is a great reliable and quick resource to consider for your product orders. Online Shopping Carts enable sites also allows you to store inventory in their fulfillment center, if you don?t want to store it yourself. ?An E-commerce Website will then later fulfill the product order for you.

Online stores take care of it all when a customer places an order. Digital packages and mails the products to your customer. You then can combine your product with other shopping cart items which enables the customer to receive your Super Saver Shipping rates. Online shopping function can ?also provide customer service and returns support so you don?t have mess with anything. This is an invaluable resource allowing small businesses to increase their sales through leveraging today?s digital era of fulfillment infrastructure.

Lesson 3: Online Web Presence: Your Business Face To The World

Ness & Basch Holdings has a company, Ness & Basch Digital Marketing, that provides users with a fast way to create and maintain a web store. You can create an online business through its customer-service oriented process to launch and market your products across numerous channels in the global market.

And, one of the cool features is that Ness & Basch has built-in optimization for search engines. This optimization feeds your items to search and comparison engines to allow buyers to quickly and easily find your products. This is an excellent tool for small business owners to leverage on the e-commerce presence throughout the web. You also don?t have to wait to get started selling your products. No upfront costs exist as to hardware and software, since Ness & Basch?s web store technology is hosted in the cloud.

In conclusion, as a small business, you can capture big business benefits with Ness & Basch Digital Marketing and its services. Are you ready reach millions of buyers by simply re-packaging your products and selling them in different channels? For additional details on how to market and sell your product in different channels, then simply click below.

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Business Workshop: Investing in India a challenge

April 9, 2012 12:00 am

By Dennis Unkovic?/?

It makes sense that the many Western Pennsylvania companies looking for investment opportunities in Asia consider India, the world's largest democracy and a place where English is widely spoken. Moreover, Pittsburgh's research universities and high tech community already have created a number of successful ventures throughout the sub-continent.

Any company wanting to invest in India will inevitably face a number of challenges that may impede the best laid business plans. First and foremost, India suffers from a very poor nationwide infrastructure of roads, bridges, railways, ports and electrical generating capacity. While upgrading India's infrastructure offers business prospects to engineers, equipment makers and other suppliers, for other companies it could serve as an impediment to doing business.

Other drawbacks India must overcome include:

? An overly bureaucratic and frequently corrupt system of business regulation.

? A historically high and seemingly uncontrollable birthrate that threatens to tax the economic system despite India's current growth rate of 6 to percent annually.

? Historical political, religious and ethnic conflicts.

India also has an uneven distribution of wealth and resources, making some locations more desirable than others for foreign investors. Among the hottest Indian metropolitan areas for foreign investment is India's "Silicon Valley" of Bangalore, as well as the high tech communities of Hyderabad and Chennai.

The Indian government historically discouraged foreign investment, and even went through a period when it tried to make India completely self sufficient. Those days are gone. Today, the Indian government seems serious about opening up opportunities to foreign investors.

Given the current situation, India could represent a great investment opportunity for a company that will need a highly educated local workforce and for which an efficient distribution system is not essential.

-- Dennis UnkovicMeyer, Unkovic & Scott, du@muslaw.com

Business Workshop is a weekly feature from local experts offering tidbits on matters affecting business. To contribute, contact Business Editor Brian Hyslop at bhyslop@post-gazette.com.
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Most Important Health Benefits of Peppermint Tea | What is Health ...

Peppermint has been used as a natural herbal medicine for at least 10 000 years. Why is peppermint effective in treating diseases and improving your overall health? Why and when should you try peppermint tea and include it in your daily menu? In this article you?ll read about five most important benefits of peppermint tea.

1. Relieves symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a very common chronic disease. Scientists from the University of Adelaide in Australia found out that peppermint may help alleviate inflammatory pain in the gastrointestinal tract which is one of the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Drinking peppermint tea may also alleviate other symptoms such as indigestion, bloating, diarrhea and/or constipation.

2. Get rid of a headache, colds and flu

Peppermint contains high amounts of menthol which is very effective in treating colds and flu. Firstly, menthol is a decongestant which means that it relieves nasal congestion, more commonly known as ?stuffy nose?. Secondly, menthol has cooling effects which may help get rid of sore throat and dry coughs.

Drinking peppermint tea is also a good natural way to relieve a tension headache. Another way to use peppermint to get rid of a headache is to apply a drop of peppermint oil to the temples.

3. It probably lowers blood pressure and blood sugar levels

Some preliminary research suggests that peppermint may help lower high blood pressure and reduce blood sugar levels.

4. Helps deal with stress and improves memory

Cooling and relaxing effects of menthol relieve stress and help cure insomnia. If you suffer from chronic stress, including peppermint tea in your daily menu may help you deal with this problem.

What?s more, simply smelling the aroma of peppermint improves memory and increases concentration. Consequently, peppermint tea is a very healthy and useful drink for students, especially before examinations.

5. Improves breath (helps get rid of bad breath) and breathing

Menthol found in peppermint tea is the same menthol that is used in toothpaste, mouthwash, chewing gums and candies. If you have problems with bad breath, drinking peppermint tea regularly may help you improve your breath.

Individuals who suffer from mild asthma also use peppermint to reduce symptoms.

Remember that you can drink peppermint tea either hot or cold, with additional ingredients or not. You can also benefit from peppermint by taking peppermint oil capsules or applying peppermint oil in fluid to your skin.

These five health reasons to drink peppermint tea are only a few of numerous health benefits peppermint and menthol provides. What about precautions and potential side effects? Peppermint is generally safe for most people. However, if you?re pregnant or if you suffer from a serious illness, ask your doctor first.

Interested in peppermint? Learn more about peppermint tea benefits.

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Juicing for Health | Magna Health and Fitness

Thanks to a great book, Juice Fasting and Detoxification by Steve Meyerowitz, here are some simple home remedies:

Common Cold ? Carrot, Lemon, Radish, Ginger, Garlic

Hay Fever ? Carrot, Celery Radish, Ginger

Immune System ? Carrot, Celery, Parsley, Garlic

Memory ?Carrot, Parsley, Spinach, Kale

Stress ? Carrot Celery Kale, Parsley, Broccoli, Tomato

Headaches ? Carrot, Celery, Parsley, Spinach

Detoxifier ? Apple, Beet, Cucumber, Ginger

Antioxidant ?Carrot, Orange, Green Pepper, Ginger

Cholesterol ? Carrot, Parsley, Spinach, Garlic, Tamari

Liver Cleanse ? Carrot, Apple, Beet, Parsley

Gallstones ? Lemon including the white pit

Laxative ? Lemon in hot water first thing in the morning

Electrolyte Balance ? Celery

Liver Detox ? Wheatgrass

Anti-inflammatory?? Barley Grace Juice powder

Digestive ? Pinapple, Papaya

Arthritis ? Wheatgrass, All dark greens

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With the earnings season starting next week, the outlook is not as sunny as in previous quarters. Investors will assess whether slower growth is priced into the U.S. stock market, or if the S&P 500's retreat from Monday's four-year high is the start of a larger decline - if results disappoint. 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"Investors are out on a limb," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank. ...http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-q1-bank-results-face-great-expectations-111518872.html2012-04-08T11:43:48ZReutersanalysis-q1-bank-results-face-great-expectations-111518872(Reuters) - Since 2009, the city of Chesapeake, tucked up against the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia, has cut its workforce twice. This summer, nearly three years after the recession ended, the city of 222,209 has plans for a third round of layoffs. "We're not seeing the recovery we want to see," said Budget Director Steven Jenkins, who is hoping many of the 20 people will move into other jobs. The city's revenues are still feeling the concussions from the housing market downturn, which started in 2006, even as overall growth in the United States has improved. ...http://news.yahoo.com/despite-recovery-u-public-employees-face-more-layoffs-111253574.html2012-04-08T11:12:53ZReutersdespite-recovery-u-public-employees-face-more-layoffs-111253574(Reuters) - Private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management kicks off an estimated $2.2 billion of U.S. initial public offerings next week, the busiest flurry of offerings this year. Eight companies are scheduled to price shares, stirring bankers' hopes that the second quarter will revive a moribund market for public offerings. Proceeds from U.S.-listed IPOs fell 58.4 percent to $6.5 billion in the first quarter from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters data. "We feel constructive about the U.S. ...http://news.yahoo.com/oaktree-ipo-seven-others-launch-busy-week-110132724.html2012-04-08T11:01:32ZReutersoaktree-ipo-seven-others-launch-busy-week-110132724<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/deutsche-says-azzam-steps-down-mena-chairman-095000560.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0AlqPAbJlJMOd1TxznTtGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-08T095000Z_1_CBRE8370RBK00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-DEUTSCHE-MENA-AZZAM.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Deutsche Bank CEO Henry Azzam speaks during the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai" align="left" title="Deutsche Bank CEO Henry Azzam speaks during the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai" border="0" /></a>DUBAI (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank said on Sunday that its Middle East, North Africa (MENA) Chairman Henry Azzam, a veteran in the region, has stepped down from his position at the German lender. 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(Reporting by Mirna Sleiman, Editing by Sitaraman Shankar)</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/deutsche-says-azzam-steps-down-mena-chairman-095000560.html2012-04-08T09:50:00ZReutersdeutsche-says-azzam-steps-down-mena-chairman-095000560<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/deutsche-says-azzam-steps-down-mena-chairman-095000560.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0AlqPAbJlJMOd1TxznTtGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-08T095000Z_1_CBRE8370RBK00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-DEUTSCHE-MENA-AZZAM.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Deutsche Bank CEO Henry Azzam speaks during the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai" align="left" title="Deutsche Bank CEO Henry Azzam speaks during the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai" border="0" /></a>DUBAI (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank said on Sunday that its Middle East, North Africa (MENA) Chairman Henry Azzam, a veteran in the region, has stepped down from his position at the German lender. "We confirm that Henry Azzam has stepped down as MENA non- executive chairman of the bank. He remains as an advisor to Deutsche Bank," a spokesman said. Azzam was named non-executive chairman of the bank in 2010. Prior to that he was chief executive of the bank's Middle East business. Azzam was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Mirna Sleiman, Editing by Sitaraman Shankar)</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jobs-recovery-suffers-setback-march-080503797.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.KCSnNHfOZoEAJFHAt4QJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T182312Z_2_CBRE8350ZIS00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-USA-ECONOMY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" align="left" title="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" border="0" /></a>Employers hired far fewer workers in March than in previous months, keeping the door open for the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary support for a still sluggish economy. The report was seized upon by Republicans hoping to make the weak economy the centerpiece of their campaign for November's presidential and congressional elections. 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The report was seized upon by Republicans hoping to make the weak economy the centerpiece of their campaign for November's presidential and congressional elections. Even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, job growth slowed to 120,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October. ...</p><br clear="all"/>ATHENS (Reuters) - The two main parties backing Greece's EU/IMF bailout are recovering some popularity as a general election nears, an opinion poll showed on Saturday. Support for the conservative New Democracy and the Socialist PASOK now reaches a combined 40 percent from 26 percent in February, according to an Alco survey for the Proto Thema newspaper. 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The dye binds to clumps of a toxic protein called beta amyloid that accumulates in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's. ...http://news.yahoo.com/u-gives-nod-eli-lillys-brain-plaque-test-201653660.html2012-04-07T20:16:53ZReutersu-gives-nod-eli-lillys-brain-plaque-test-201653660<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/reforming-myanmar-targets-boost-rice-exports-093520971.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/x7O7y1xB9d36hffYroZgAw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T093558Z_2_CBRE8360QN500_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-MYANMAR-RICE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="To match feature MYANMAR-RICE/" align="left" title="To match feature MYANMAR-RICE/" border="0" /></a>YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar plans to increase rice exports by almost a fifth to 1 million tons in the current fiscal year (2012-2013), owing partly to international help in reviving its agriculture sector, state media said on Saturday. Minister of Agriculture Myint Hlaing said President Thein Sein, a key reformer in the year-old civilian government, had instructed the ministry to boost rice yields and quality. Tax concessions would also be extended to help rice exporters, the newspapers said. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/reforming-myanmar-targets-boost-rice-exports-093520971.html2012-04-07T09:35:58ZReutersreforming-myanmar-targets-boost-rice-exports-093520971<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/reforming-myanmar-targets-boost-rice-exports-093520971.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/x7O7y1xB9d36hffYroZgAw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T093558Z_2_CBRE8360QN500_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-MYANMAR-RICE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="To match feature MYANMAR-RICE/" align="left" title="To match feature MYANMAR-RICE/" border="0" /></a>YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar plans to increase rice exports by almost a fifth to 1 million tons in the current fiscal year (2012-2013), owing partly to international help in reviving its agriculture sector, state media said on Saturday. Minister of Agriculture Myint Hlaing said President Thein Sein, a key reformer in the year-old civilian government, had instructed the ministry to boost rice yields and quality. Tax concessions would also be extended to help rice exporters, the newspapers said. ...</p><br clear="all"/>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Jewellers in India called off their three-week-old strike on Saturday, an industry official said, on assurances from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the government would consider scrapping a budget proposal to levy excise duty on unbranded jewelry. "The strike has been called off today onwards. We will be starting our shops from tomorrow," said Kumar Jain, vice chairman of the Mumbai Jewellers Association. ...http://news.yahoo.com/indias-jewelers-call-off-strike-124817522.html2012-04-07T12:48:17ZReutersindias-jewelers-call-off-strike-124817522URENGOI, Russia (Reuters) - Gazprom may ditch plans to pipe Arctic gas from its Shtokman project, a top executive said, potentially giving Russia's top energy firm more leeway to sell supplies from the huge field to customers outside Europe. Gazprom may instead focus on producing more easily transportable liquefied natural gas at the Barents Sea deposit, deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev said on Saturday - the first time the company has mentioned that option. ...http://news.yahoo.com/gazprom-flags-shtokman-gas-shift-europe-wary-151204704.html2012-04-07T15:12:04ZReutersgazprom-flags-shtokman-gas-shift-europe-wary-151204704<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iran-oil-development-fund-could-reach-55-billion-151751670.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HQcOFdxz9.kUFdCvpOo7Lw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T195254Z_1_CBRE8361J8900_RTROPTP_2_IRAN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The SPQ1 gas platform is seen on the southern edge of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf, off Assalouyeh" align="left" title="The SPQ1 gas platform is seen on the southern edge of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf, off Assalouyeh" border="0" /></a>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the country's sovereign wealth fund could reach $55 billion by March next year if oil prices kept high, in an apparent bid to defend his economic record in the face of increasing isolation. Washington and the European Union have stepped up sanctions on the Islamic Republic, alarmed by its disputed nuclear program. Iran earned up to $100 billion in oil revenue last year but an EU embargo set to come into force in July could put a major dent in future income. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/iran-oil-development-fund-could-reach-55-billion-151751670.html2012-04-07T15:17:51ZReutersiran-oil-development-fund-could-reach-55-billion-151751670<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iran-oil-development-fund-could-reach-55-billion-151751670.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HQcOFdxz9.kUFdCvpOo7Lw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T195254Z_1_CBRE8361J8900_RTROPTP_2_IRAN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The SPQ1 gas platform is seen on the southern edge of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf, off Assalouyeh" align="left" title="The SPQ1 gas platform is seen on the southern edge of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf, off Assalouyeh" border="0" /></a>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the country's sovereign wealth fund could reach $55 billion by March next year if oil prices kept high, in an apparent bid to defend his economic record in the face of increasing isolation. Washington and the European Union have stepped up sanctions on the Islamic Republic, alarmed by its disputed nuclear program. Iran earned up to $100 billion in oil revenue last year but an EU embargo set to come into force in July could put a major dent in future income. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/housing-secretary-pushes-mortgage-write-downs-235316863.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7WM2NPGMJ6d3ZOl31ItPMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T235316Z_1_CBRE8351UD200_RTROPTP_2_MORTGAGE-SETTLEMENT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announces $25 billion agreement with mortgage servicers in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announces $25 billion agreement with mortgage servicers in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which finance the bulk of U.S. mortgages, to start reducing loan balances for troubled borrowers, but with safeguards to prevent them from purposely defaulting to obtain relief. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan laid out the case for a program with such checks and balances to convince the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates the companies, to provide more mortgage aid. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/housing-secretary-pushes-mortgage-write-downs-235316863.html2012-04-06T23:53:16ZReutershousing-secretary-pushes-mortgage-write-downs-235316863<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/housing-secretary-pushes-mortgage-write-downs-235316863.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7WM2NPGMJ6d3ZOl31ItPMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T235316Z_1_CBRE8351UD200_RTROPTP_2_MORTGAGE-SETTLEMENT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announces $25 billion agreement with mortgage servicers in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announces $25 billion agreement with mortgage servicers in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which finance the bulk of U.S. mortgages, to start reducing loan balances for troubled borrowers, but with safeguards to prevent them from purposely defaulting to obtain relief. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan laid out the case for a program with such checks and balances to convince the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates the companies, to provide more mortgage aid. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-timetable-restarting-california-nuclear-plant-jaczko-030835700.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9XnovXKp0o_vB8DwNOmPcw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T030835Z_1_CBRE83608QU00_RTROPTP_2_QUAKE-CALIFORNIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>DANA POINT, California (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear official said on Friday his agency has not set any timetable for restarting the troubled San Onofre nuclear station in Southern California and that it would only do so if safety was assured. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregory Jaczko made his comments after touring the facility where both reactors have been shut since January due to the discovery of premature wear on tubes in giant steam generators installed in 2010 and 2011. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, and U.S. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/no-timetable-restarting-california-nuclear-plant-jaczko-030835700.html2012-04-07T06:49:56ZReutersno-timetable-restarting-california-nuclear-plant-jaczko-030835700<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-timetable-restarting-california-nuclear-plant-jaczko-030835700.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9XnovXKp0o_vB8DwNOmPcw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-07T030835Z_1_CBRE83608QU00_RTROPTP_2_QUAKE-CALIFORNIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>DANA POINT, California (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear official said on Friday his agency has not set any timetable for restarting the troubled San Onofre nuclear station in Southern California and that it would only do so if safety was assured. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregory Jaczko made his comments after touring the facility where both reactors have been shut since January due to the discovery of premature wear on tubes in giant steam generators installed in 2010 and 2011. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, and U.S. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-freezes-pay-ceos-ally-financial-gm-aig-172309114.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/G9jm8ZgsrP0cUu2gk1pvSg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T211251Z_1_CBRE8351MXI00_RTROPTP_2_CROATIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="CEO of AIG Robert Benmosche speaks during an interview with Reuters in the garden of his Adriatic sea-front villa in Dubrovnik" align="left" title="CEO of AIG Robert Benmosche speaks during an interview with Reuters in the garden of his Adriatic sea-front villa in Dubrovnik" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of General Motors , AIG, and Ally Financial had their 2012 compensation packages frozen for a second year in a row by the Treasury Department after they got "exceptional" bailout help during the financial crisis. The Treasury said on Friday that all three were making progress at repaying the taxpayer funds given to them to keep them from collapsing during the 2007-2009 financial crisis but their pay practices remain under scrutiny of a "special master" until they do pay it back. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-freezes-pay-ceos-ally-financial-gm-aig-172309114.html2012-04-06T21:12:51ZReuterstreasury-freezes-pay-ceos-ally-financial-gm-aig-172309114<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-freezes-pay-ceos-ally-financial-gm-aig-172309114.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/G9jm8ZgsrP0cUu2gk1pvSg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T211251Z_1_CBRE8351MXI00_RTROPTP_2_CROATIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="CEO of AIG Robert Benmosche speaks during an interview with Reuters in the garden of his Adriatic sea-front villa in Dubrovnik" align="left" title="CEO of AIG Robert Benmosche speaks during an interview with Reuters in the garden of his Adriatic sea-front villa in Dubrovnik" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of General Motors , AIG, and Ally Financial had their 2012 compensation packages frozen for a second year in a row by the Treasury Department after they got "exceptional" bailout help during the financial crisis. The Treasury said on Friday that all three were making progress at repaying the taxpayer funds given to them to keep them from collapsing during the 2007-2009 financial crisis but their pay practices remain under scrutiny of a "special master" until they do pay it back. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ex-intel-employee-pleads-guilty-theft-charges-231506381.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t534aS0jFvcuA49J2fr4BQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T231506Z_1_CBRE8351SLC00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-INTEL-THEFT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An Intel logo is seen at the company's offices in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv" align="left" title="An Intel logo is seen at the company's offices in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani, 36, downloaded some of Intel's "most valuable" design and manufacturing documents in June 2008, in his final days as an engineer in a Massachusetts facility. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/ex-intel-employee-pleads-guilty-theft-charges-231506381.html2012-04-06T23:15:06ZReutersex-intel-employee-pleads-guilty-theft-charges-231506381<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ex-intel-employee-pleads-guilty-theft-charges-231506381.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t534aS0jFvcuA49J2fr4BQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T231506Z_1_CBRE8351SLC00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-INTEL-THEFT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An Intel logo is seen at the company's offices in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv" align="left" title="An Intel logo is seen at the company's offices in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani, 36, downloaded some of Intel's "most valuable" design and manufacturing documents in June 2008, in his final days as an engineer in a Massachusetts facility. ...</p><br clear="all"/>BEIJING (Reuters) - China's big four state banks extended almost 300 billion yuan ($47.50 billion) in new local-currency loans last month, the official Securities Times reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. The newspaper also estimated that the total new loans from all Chinese banks may exceed 900 billion yuan in March, based on a 30-40 percent weight that the top four lenders typically account for the total new loans. Chinese banks issued 710. ...http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-big-banks-lend-nearly-300-billion-yuan-041654724.html2012-04-07T04:16:54ZReuterschinas-big-banks-lend-nearly-300-billion-yuan-041654724<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-execs-leave-blackberry-maker-shake-214121989.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HIrLklZnEqyVOtGaNjgZUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T214121Z_1_CBRE8351O9E00_RTROPTP_2_CTECH-US-RIM.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Blackberry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin" align="left" title="Blackberry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin" border="0" /></a>TORONTO (Reuters) - Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd is losing two more senior executives as the money-losing company embarks on a strategic overhaul that its new chief executive says could result in its sale. Alan Brenner, a senior vice president for the BlackBerry platform, will leave after a transition period, and Alistair Mitchell, a vice president for the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging product, has already left, RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said in an email on Friday. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-execs-leave-blackberry-maker-shake-214121989.html2012-04-06T21:41:21ZReuterstwo-more-execs-leave-blackberry-maker-shake-214121989<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-execs-leave-blackberry-maker-shake-214121989.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HIrLklZnEqyVOtGaNjgZUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T214121Z_1_CBRE8351O9E00_RTROPTP_2_CTECH-US-RIM.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Blackberry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin" align="left" title="Blackberry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin" border="0" /></a>TORONTO (Reuters) - Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd is losing two more senior executives as the money-losing company embarks on a strategic overhaul that its new chief executive says could result in its sale. Alan Brenner, a senior vice president for the BlackBerry platform, will leave after a transition period, and Alistair Mitchell, a vice president for the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging product, has already left, RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said in an email on Friday. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-hears-apple-request-pull-samsung-devices-184129860.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rhsPLMGgJm_2ex1d7IGCDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T202921Z_1_CBRE8351KX100_RTROPTP_2_CTECH-US-USA-SAMSUNG-APPLE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" align="left" title="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday showed few signs that it was prepared to support a request by Apple Inc to block immediately the sale of some Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets. In a high-stakes patent dispute, the court heard arguments about whether a federal trial judge acted correctly in December when she ruled that Apple failed to provide enough evidence to support an injunction of Samsung's Galaxy product line. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-hears-apple-request-pull-samsung-devices-184129860.html2012-04-06T20:29:21ZReutersu-court-hears-apple-request-pull-samsung-devices-184129860<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-hears-apple-request-pull-samsung-devices-184129860.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rhsPLMGgJm_2ex1d7IGCDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T202921Z_1_CBRE8351KX100_RTROPTP_2_CTECH-US-USA-SAMSUNG-APPLE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" align="left" title="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday showed few signs that it was prepared to support a request by Apple Inc to block immediately the sale of some Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets. In a high-stakes patent dispute, the court heard arguments about whether a federal trial judge acted correctly in December when she ruled that Apple failed to provide enough evidence to support an injunction of Samsung's Galaxy product line. ...</p><br clear="all"/>(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc laid off about 1000 employees at its headquarters in Plano, Texas and Pittsburgh customer call center, as part of its previously announced cost cutting measures, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The retailer said it will take a pre-tax cash charge of $30 million to $38 million, most of which will be recognized in its first quarter ending April 28, primarily for one-time termination costs. ...http://news.yahoo.com/j-c-penney-cuts-1000-jobs-headquarters-pittsburgh-184334495.html2012-04-06T18:43:34ZReutersj-c-penney-cuts-1000-jobs-headquarters-pittsburgh-184334495<p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-likely-added-over-200-040642096.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.KCSnNHfOZoEAJFHAt4QJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T182312Z_2_CBRE8350ZIS00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-USA-ECONOMY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" align="left" title="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers hired far fewer workers in March than in previous months, keeping the door open for the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary support for a still sluggish economy. The report was seized upon by Republicans hoping to make the weak economy the centerpiece of their campaign for November's presidential and congressional elections. Even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, job growth slowed to 120,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-likely-added-over-200-040642096.html2012-04-06T18:23:12ZReutersnews/u-likely-added-over-200-040642096<p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-likely-added-over-200-040642096.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.KCSnNHfOZoEAJFHAt4QJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T182312Z_2_CBRE8350ZIS00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-USA-ECONOMY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" align="left" title="Employment seeking American University students line up waiting to talk to job recruiters during a career job fair at American University in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers hired far fewer workers in March than in previous months, keeping the door open for the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary support for a still sluggish economy. The report was seized upon by Republicans hoping to make the weak economy the centerpiece of their campaign for November's presidential and congressional elections. Even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, job growth slowed to 120,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dodgers-emerge-bankruptcy-april-30-210820563--spt.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DghBnwknR4yrAjfBp_4VDA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T210820Z_1_CBRE8351MQ200_RTROPTP_2_DODGERS-SALE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Los Angeles Dodger player makes his way to the dugout before their MLB spring training game against the San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale" align="left" title="A Los Angeles Dodger player makes his way to the dugout before their MLB spring training game against the San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers said on Friday it expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of April, after a group spearheaded by basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson last week agreed to buy the baseball franchise. The team, which had landed in bankruptcy court in June 2011, said it is filing for an amended plan of reorganization, which is scheduled for hearing on April 13. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/dodgers-emerge-bankruptcy-april-30-210820563--spt.html2012-04-06T21:08:20ZReutersdodgers-emerge-bankruptcy-april-30-210820563--spt<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dodgers-emerge-bankruptcy-april-30-210820563--spt.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DghBnwknR4yrAjfBp_4VDA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T210820Z_1_CBRE8351MQ200_RTROPTP_2_DODGERS-SALE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Los Angeles Dodger player makes his way to the dugout before their MLB spring training game against the San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale" align="left" title="A Los Angeles Dodger player makes his way to the dugout before their MLB spring training game against the San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers said on Friday it expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of April, after a group spearheaded by basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson last week agreed to buy the baseball franchise. The team, which had landed in bankruptcy court in June 2011, said it is filing for an amended plan of reorganization, which is scheduled for hearing on April 13. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/futures-fall-weak-march-jobs-report-123806773.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LNarKnlw8kNbJAPftV5mqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T134030Z_3_CBRE83418AP00_RTROPTP_2_MARKETS-STOCKS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" align="left" title="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures closed lower on Friday in brief, holiday-thinned trading after a much weaker-than-expected report on U.S. job growth for March. Trading volumes were light because of the Good Friday holiday and market closings in Europe. S&P 500 futures fell 1.2 percent, suggesting a weak open on Monday as the cash market is closed Friday. U.S. payrolls grew by 120,000 in March, worse than the forecasted gain of 203,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent, down from 8.3 percent in February. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/futures-fall-weak-march-jobs-report-123806773.html2012-04-06T13:40:30ZReutersfutures-fall-weak-march-jobs-report-123806773<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/futures-fall-weak-march-jobs-report-123806773.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LNarKnlw8kNbJAPftV5mqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T134030Z_3_CBRE83418AP00_RTROPTP_2_MARKETS-STOCKS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" align="left" title="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures closed lower on Friday in brief, holiday-thinned trading after a much weaker-than-expected report on U.S. job growth for March. Trading volumes were light because of the Good Friday holiday and market closings in Europe. S&P 500 futures fell 1.2 percent, suggesting a weak open on Monday as the cash market is closed Friday. U.S. payrolls grew by 120,000 in March, worse than the forecasted gain of 203,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent, down from 8.3 percent in February. ...</p><br clear="all"/>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department said on Friday that the number of active permanent mortgage loan modifications agreed to by banks rose 13,836 during February to 782,609 by the end of the month. The modifications, which aim to lower monthly payments so that distressed homeowners can avoid foreclosure, were made under the Home Affordable Mortgage Program, or HARP. ...http://news.yahoo.com/more-americans-win-mortgage-loan-modifications-193834675.html2012-04-06T19:38:34ZReutersmore-americans-win-mortgage-loan-modifications-193834675<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-products-chief-leaves-company-ahead-reorganization-173356164.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K.5I75EX7C79trUQVzijDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T173356Z_1_CBRE8351CSQ00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica" align="left" title="The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's head of products is leaving the company, ahead of a major reorganization aimed to return the struggling Web company to growth. The departure of Blake Irving, which a Yahoo spokeswoman confirmed, comes after the company announced its deepest job cuts in years earlier this week, with layoffs of 2,000 employees. On Tuesday, Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson will hold an all-staff meeting to brief employees on the company's new management structure, a source at the company told Reuters earlier this week. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-products-chief-leaves-company-ahead-reorganization-173356164.html2012-04-06T17:33:56ZReutersyahoo-products-chief-leaves-company-ahead-reorganization-173356164<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-products-chief-leaves-company-ahead-reorganization-173356164.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K.5I75EX7C79trUQVzijDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T173356Z_1_CBRE8351CSQ00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica" align="left" title="The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica" border="0" /></a>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's head of products is leaving the company, ahead of a major reorganization aimed to return the struggling Web company to growth. The departure of Blake Irving, which a Yahoo spokeswoman confirmed, comes after the company announced its deepest job cuts in years earlier this week, with layoffs of 2,000 employees. On Tuesday, Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson will hold an all-staff meeting to brief employees on the company's new management structure, a source at the company told Reuters earlier this week. ...</p><br clear="all"/>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government charged two former executives of Franklin Bank Corp, a Houston-based lender founded by a mortgage bond pioneer, with a fraudulent scheme to conceal how badly the bank was doing during the height of the financial crisis. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said former Franklin chief executive Anthony Nocella and the bank's former chief financial officer, J. Russell McCann, inflated the bank's reported earnings and tried to conceal its loan quality during the second half of 2007. ...http://news.yahoo.com/former-franklin-bank-executives-charged-fraud-153333519.html2012-04-06T15:33:33ZReutersformer-franklin-bank-executives-charged-fraud-153333519<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-pulls-ahead-airbus-first-quarter-120907129.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/T4Bmx6GXqj9Dwdpcm4i.Wg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T152052Z_1_CBRE8350XRF00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach" align="left" title="The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach" border="0" /></a>PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing overtook Airbus in deliveries in the first quarter, setting itself on course to recapture the coveted number one spot in annual aircraft production for the first time since 2002, company data showed this week. European planemaker Airbus said on Friday its deliveries grew 10 percent compared with the first quarter of last year to 131 aircraft. On Thursday, its U.S. competitor Boeing announced first-quarter deliveries of 137 commercial airplanes, up 32 percent from a year earlier. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-pulls-ahead-airbus-first-quarter-120907129.html2012-04-06T15:20:52ZReutersboeing-pulls-ahead-airbus-first-quarter-120907129<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-pulls-ahead-airbus-first-quarter-120907129.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/T4Bmx6GXqj9Dwdpcm4i.Wg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-06T152052Z_1_CBRE8350XRF00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach" align="left" title="The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach" border="0" /></a>PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing overtook Airbus in deliveries in the first quarter, setting itself on course to recapture the coveted number one spot in annual aircraft production for the first time since 2002, company data showed this week. European planemaker Airbus said on Friday its deliveries grew 10 percent compared with the first quarter of last year to 131 aircraft. On Thursday, its U.S. competitor Boeing announced first-quarter deliveries of 137 commercial airplanes, up 32 percent from a year earlier. ...</p><br clear="all"/>FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank denied a report that it plans to cut thousands of jobs. "There are no such plans," a spokesman for Germany's biggest lender said on Friday. German weekly magazine Der Spiegel earlier reported that about 15 percent of the bank's 35,000 jobs could be cut in the areas of infrastructure and regional management. In February the bank reported a quarterly loss of 351 million euros ($463 million) after packing in 1.2 billion euros worth of one-off charges into the fourth quarter. (Reporting by Edward Taylor; Editing by Mike Nesbit)http://news.yahoo.com/deutsche-bank-denies-plans-cut-thousands-jobs-145754835.html2012-04-06T14:57:54ZReutersdeutsche-bank-denies-plans-cut-thousands-jobs-145754835<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/natural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow-120019886.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ITLy8LDTVg7Io9_Inii2jg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d47c5b4bf7ae3b090c0f6a706700e72e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, a pair of workers are behind the top of a pump where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas is underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country?s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are quickly retrenching. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, a pair of workers are behind the top of a pump where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas is underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country?s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are quickly retrenching. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)" border="0" /></a>The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/natural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow-120019886.html2012-04-08T12:12:48ZAssociated Pressnatural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow-120019886<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/natural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow-120019886.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ITLy8LDTVg7Io9_Inii2jg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d47c5b4bf7ae3b090c0f6a706700e72e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, a pair of workers are behind the top of a pump where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas is underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. 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'Bully' downgraded to PG-13 as ratings system assailed from all sides

Antibullying advocates wanted 'Bully' to be bumped from R to PG-13 so teens could watch it. But family groups are appalled by the language. Did the process work or fail??

The documentary ?Bully? has been officially retagged PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. This shift from its initial R rating for language occurred after a drawn-out battle of wills among the studio, the trade association responsible for the voluntary ratings system, and vocal advocates of antibullying initiatives.???

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A compromise version, which cuts the number of "F-bombs," will be in theaters beginning April 13, when the film goes into national distribution.

Now that the?critically lauded, but by all accounts emotionally difficult film will be open to the teen crowd it depicts, the question is: Was the film itself a victim of ?bullying? by an outmoded, out-of-touch?ratings group, or is it an example of the free-market system finding the best balance between freedom of expression and protecting family values in the marketplace??

?Ironically, 'Bully' the movie was bullied by the MPAA,? says?Marie Newman, co-author of? "When Your Child Is Being Bullied: Real Solutions," via e-mail.

The MPAA has done this before, she says, but not with a film that mattered so much to the audience being excluded.

?If all children and parents are not allowed to see this documentary, it will defeat it purpose to generate higher awareness of the bullying epidemic and education of what bullying truly looks and feels like,? she says. ?Thirteen million children being bullied everyday is 13 million too many.??

The rating system, which dates to 1968, ?is in any case a childish system,? says Paul Levinson, author of ?New New Media,? in an e-mail. Adults use this system, he says, ?in a wrongheaded attempt to regulate what their children can see, especially in this online age in which people of all ages can see anything they like.?

But in the case of the "Bully" movie, he adds, ?putting anything in the way of kids seeing this movie ? kids who could well be victims of bullying themselves ?was not only foolish but destructive."

Others suggest that in an age of free-for-all media, the ratings system provides a last vestige of guidance for parents hoping to steer their children to appropriate entertainment options.?On Friday, the Parents Television Council knocked the MPAA for what it called an arbitrary and destructive decision to change the rating for "Bully" ?despite the unprecedented inclusion of multiple instances of the harshest profanity.?

IN a statement, the council?called for more accountability from the MPAA, such as a reform of the ratings system to allow greater input from the public ?rather than just Hollywood insiders.?

The notoriously arms-length MPAA, which does not reveal the names of so-called ?average? parents and community members that help assess a film?s rating,? however, has said that this process of negotiation between studios and the ratings board shows the resilience and flexibility of the ratings system in a swiftly evolving media environment.?

The MPAA did not answer calls to either its?Los Angeles or Washington offices, but in a statement?in the Los Angeles Times, Joan Graves, head of the MPAA division that oversees ratings, said: ?Per the standard rating process available to all filmmakers, The Weinstein Company decided to resubmit a new, edited version of 'Bully' to be rated, and the ratings board gave this new version of the film a PG-13....?

She continued, ?In the case of 'Bully,' the ratings system has worked exactly as it is supposed to: Parents have been kept informed of the content of each version of the film, and they have been given the information they need to make moviegoing decisions on behalf of their kids."

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SEATTLE (AP) ? Russ Berkman's dream came true when he won a lottery for four passes to Wednesday's practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Georgia. But the Seattle-area resident's stomach turned when he found his dog, Sierra, had eaten them.

Berkman told KJR radio on Tuesday he was determined to go. His girlfriend told him he had to make Sierra puke.

He induced vomiting and recovered a gooey glob. Then he went to work trying to put about 20 vomit-covered pieces back together.

He says he recovered about 70 percent of the tickets. He took photos and explained the situation to the Augusta National Golf Club as "my dog ate my Masters tickets!"

They reprinted Berkman's tickets and had them waiting for him in Georgia.

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This book was a blessing for me to have come across. I own a handful of online stores and businesses. I have spent thousands of dollars on eBooks and manuals guaranteed to show me results. Of course, these books were all pretty much the same thing. Only about two percent of the information contained in these books pertained to me or my situation. Then I came across Samuel Blankson?s book, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), and read it in a single day.

He manages to leave out all of the irrelevant information that most e-books and informational portals fill their pages with. The book targeted the specific questions, ideas and information I had been looking for as an everyday person trying to promote my online business. He helped to deliver a total understanding of who is on the internet, what they are looking for, how they are looking for it and how they want it delivered.

This book walks you through everything from setting up your website, META and TITLE tags, troubleshooting, sitemaps, keywords, site content and search engine optimizations. It is a one stop resource for all your online marketing needs. Samuel also provides information on several directories you can add your website to.

If you have a question about SEO?s or marketing your online business, this book has the answers. Language barriers? There is a section on that. Promoting your site through the use of social networks? Covered. How can you really promote your business through the world of blogging? Read about it.

There are so many ways to get the word out there, and this book covers them all. You will be amazed at all the resources, knowledge and ideas this book has to offer. I have personally used a few tips from the book over the past week and have already seen traffic to my website double. I cannot wait to implement more of the things I have learned.

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About the Author: Tom Melton

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