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		<title><![CDATA[Consumers May Be Told of Identity Theft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australian businesses may soon be forced to tell their customers if their personal details have been stolen, under proposed new laws to combat identity theft.One of the world's biggest technology security companies, Symantec Corp, says it has been approached to assist the federal government with "advice and support" in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Govt Expects Xmas Broadband Breakthrough]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Federal Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy says he is confident the government will have significant progress to announce by Christmas in the broadband negotiations with Telstra.Discussions with Telstra continue to be "very constructive", Senator Conroy told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.Telstra was committed to understanding what the government's direction was,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:31:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FDA Dislikes Canadian Drugs; Is OK With Chinese Drugs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said that allowing reimportation of drugs from Canada raised significant safety questions, in a letter to to Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, according to the Wall Street Journal. The story notes that the drug industry lobby group PhRMA also opposes reimportation and has been fighting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:37:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legal landscape of business could change significantly. This term, the country?s highest court could redraw the map with rulings on everything from innovation to the prosecution of white-collar criminals. The business-related cases now before the Supreme Court are wide-ranging. Those watching closely include top executives, entrepreneurs, politicians, inventors, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Fixes Botched Pensions: Companies or Courts?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Xerox employees have waited more than a decade to resolve a  pension dispute. Wasn?t ERISA supposed to make the process less  complicated? The Supreme Court reviews a key aspect of the massive employee  benefits law.  The case in brief:  The 105 retirees in this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Gloucester Achieved the Impossible Even Before Inking the Celgene Deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before inking a $640 million acquisition by Celgene CELG earlier this week, Gloucester Pharmaceuticals managed to get an FDA approval without tapping the public markets or a partner. by Trista Morrison]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:24:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fight for data on ethnic minorities]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A refusal by regulators to provide detailed information about ethnic minority staff working in commercial radio and television stations is being fought by a media union.Bectu, the union, took its challenge to the decision by the information commissioner and the communications regulator Ofcom to the central London county court...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The receiver of ABC Learning says the collapsed firm's remaining childcare centres are set to be sold to a syndicate comprising not-for-profit welfare groups.Receiver Chris Honey on Wednesday named the GoodStart syndicate as the preferred purchaser after a bidding process.The syndicate includes Mission Australia, the Benevolent Society, Social Ventures...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Britain's Chancellor Shows Lack Of Judgment With Windfall Bonus Tax]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain today is experiencing something of a Sarbanes-Oxley moment. Earlier on, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that banks in the country will be forced to pay a one-time levy on bonuses there. That's not just a mistake: it's a misunderstanding of how the banking business model operates. by Daniel M. Harrison]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:18:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dendreon's New Stock Offering Takes Advantage of Provenge Decision Uncertainty]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dendreon DNDN is taking advantage of the period of uncertainty before the FDA renders a May 1, 2010, decision on its Provenge prostate cancer treatment by raising money from a new stock sale. Dendreon shares fell today after the company announced it would dilute its 115.94 million outstanding shares with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:34:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nobel Laureate: Look for Local Solutions to Climate Change]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Copenhagen this week as the world's leaders convene their to discuss the global response to climate change. Environmental activists are clamoring for governments to do more about the problem, but according to this year's Nobel laureate in economics we all should be looking closer to home...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:22:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iran says Saudis took atom scientist]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Iran accused Saudi Arabia yesterday of handing over a senior Iranian nuclear scientist to the US.Shahram Amiri, thought to be in his early 30s, vanished in Mecca on May 31 while on pilgrimage. He worked at Iran's nuclear plant in Natanz, where uranium is enriched.His disappearance has stoked tensions...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rate Rises to Continue, Economists Say]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Homeowners face steadily rising interest rates during the next two years with the Reserve Bank's cash rate reaching 5.5 per cent in 2011, economists say.The results of the Australian Business Economists ABE annual forecasting survey, released on Tuesday, forecast the cash rate to reach 4.75 per cent in 2010,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citigroup, Wells Fargo Itching to Repay TARP Funds]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Bank of America BAC moving to repay its TARP loans, Citigroup and Wells Fargo are bucking to settle their own debts and get out from under the government's thumb.    Yet the banking giants are at odds with federal authorities over how much capital they need to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:49:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Government 2.0 Report | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/12/08/the-government-20-report-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[podcast] A declaration of Open Government is the central recommendation in the Government 2.0 Taskforce's draft report, which is now seeking input from people just like you! by Phil Dobbie]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:39:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2407-13071_23-371166.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ China said Monday it would maintain its pro-growth monetary policy for 2010, while also pushing on with efforts to stimulate domestic demand and boost exports, state media reported.The announcement came at the end of a key annual economic meeting to outline policy for next year.The central economic work conference...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Pharma's Facebook Fail]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005698/big-pharmas-facebook-fail/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[UCB Pharma (UCB.BR) has an Epilepsy Facebook page that doesn't mention it's published by UCB. And AstraZeneca AZN has a page for Nexium that does not let visitors post messages on its Wall. Adweek revisits the long-established phenom of drug companies not liking social media in case patients start telling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:57:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shire's Daytrana Patch Recall Is 8th So Far: Time to Pull the Plug?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shire SHPGY has voluntarily recalled the Daytrana ADHD patch citing problems with patients removing the liner on the back. It is not a safety issue, the company says. Daytrana is for children with ADHD; it is the only patch product to treat the condition. "Sudden death" is one of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:02:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What To Do When A Government Contracts With Itself?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In England the Government was forced to bail out the Royal Bank of Scotland and became the majority shareholder.  Now it is part of one team bidding on a major contract.  This raises conflict of issue and favoritism concerns.  The same could happen in the U.S. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The End of Sarbanes-Oxley? Good Riddance!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3404]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that challenge the constitutionality of substantial parts of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, aka SOX, potentially invalidating the entire law that has cost the economy nearly $1 trillion. I say the sooner the better. by Steve Tobak]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:13:18 -0800</pubDate>
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