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  • Jul 30, 2008

    Quake update

    Looks like the USGS has downgraded the magnitude of the quake to 5.4. . . . Ho hum. Back to work.

  • We just got hit with one of the joys of life in Los Angeles — an earthquake that had our downtown office rocking. The preliminary report from the…

  • JetBlue reported $7 million quarterly loss last week, and CEO David Barger wants to show he, too, feels the pain. He's cutting his base salary in…

  • Would you be willing to have your auto-insurance company install a monitoring device in your car, on the chance that you could get lower rates? If…

  • It may be more a sign of a changing economy than bad times, but beer sales at British pubs have fallen to their lowest level since the Great…

  • You have to admire a brand new business going after a behemoth. This morning, Janet Babin covered a new rival search engine called Cuil –…

  • KB Home has announced it will commit to a new set of environmental standards in its housing developments, including making all of its new…

  • Three prominent neurosurgeons told CNN last week that they did not hold cellphones directly to their ears, which has stirred up an old debate on…

  • If you're interested in the development of electric-car technology, you might enjoy C-Net's video report from the Plug-In 2008 car conference in…

  • The consulting firm Mercer reports the cost of compensating expats has jumped by nearly 20 percent in the past 12 months, thanks to a weaker U.S….

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