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		<title><![CDATA[Ericsson still has mountain to climb]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Over the summer, Hans Vestberg climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak - which may be good preparation for his next job. As Ericsson's incoming chief executive, he has the task of keeping the Swedish company at its peak - maintaining its position as the world's largest manufacturer of mobile...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[November Job Ads Surge: Index]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Advertisements for full-time jobs surged in November, confirming a rebound in the Australian employment market, according to the Olivier Job Index.The job index jumped 5.88 per cent in November, driving a 7.84 per cent rise over the past three months and reversing the October fall, which Olivier described as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurers Could Become Fire Fighters de Facto, and Face 'Alarming' Bills]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As ominous as a fire bell in the night is the news that Passaic, New Jersey Mayor Alex Blanco is considering billing insurance companies for fire department services. The state of New Jersey, as well as most of its municipalities, is facing a serious shortfall in revenue. By the latest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:51:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Do-Nothing Office of Federal Insurance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about our government is its ability to create jobs. Not in the hinterlands, where people are faced with gut-wrenching 10 percent unemployment, but in our nation's capital, where no bureaucrat will ever go hungry.    It has been decreed unanimouslyÂ by the House Financial Services Committee...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:33:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside Word: Bing Is 'Dumbing Down' Search]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Martha SperryPosition: Sperry is an attorney and manager of Advantage Advocates, which provides editing and marketing services&#8212;online and offline&#8212;to high-net-worth insurance and financial-industry clients.Blog name:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:00:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With Redesign, Reuters.com Goes After Consumer Audience]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With the general business magazines that are still in existence trying to keep their heads above water, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) believes this is a good time for a major overhaul of its consumer-facing website. In addition to the bolder logo&#8212;red background replaces the washed-out gray look&#8212;the new Reuters.com...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comcast/NBCU Won't Create ESPN Rival]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast executives said they won't try to turn their Versus cable channel into a rival to ESPN after their joint venture with NBC Universal clears. Several published reports have speculated that Comcast could offload some NBC Sports content onto Versus, which currently offers sports programming like the Tour de France,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:48:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Official: Comcast Buys Majority of NBC Universal; NBCU Valued at $30 Billion]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Comcast&#8217;s grand mission to expand its role on the content side is much closer to reality today following the long-expected announcement this morning that it is buying 51 percent of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) in a deal valued at $30 billion. More than 80 percent of the cash flow...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:24:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT Management in 2010: Complex, Costly, Confounding]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/management-2010-complex-costly-confounding/22614/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CIO - No one ever claimed that managing corporate IT systems was easy, or without its fare share of tumult, or for the faint of heart. But during the past decade, as better IT tools emerged in the high-tech industry-such as application integration software, Web-based software delivery methods, project implementation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comcast-NBCU Will Face Opposition In DC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NBCU-Comcast joint venture will face plenty of opposition in Washington, including from Free Press, Consumer Federation of America, unions worried about job losses, and from potentiail competitors including smaller and midsized cable operators concerned about competing with a 1,600 -pound gorilla. It will be the first media merger to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:04:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comcast Eats GE, NBC Owned By Cable Provider [Comcast]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast has sucked GE into a new venture that's 51% owned by Comcast, 49% owned by GE. But all you might care about is that Comcast now has controlling power of all NBC Universal properties, which include: NBC, Hulu, USA, Bravo, Syfy, E!, Versus, CNBC, MSNBC, Universal Pictures movie studio,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:03:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Will Comcast Give Up to Get the NBC Deal Through Washington? Place Your Bets… [MediaMemo]]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/comcast-nbc-washington-mediamemo/22587/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Comcast's deal to buy half of NBC Universal from GE, first reported in late September, is now official, and the two companies are holding three conferences calls this morning to talk about it. But there won't be much either company can say that hasn't already made it into the press...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:18:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comcast, NBCU Sign Definitive Joint Venture Agreement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/media/news-analysis/comcast-nbcu-sign-definitive-joint/22581/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Comcast and General Electric have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51% owned by Comcast, 49% owned by GE. Managed by Comcast, the joint venture will house NBC Universal businesses and Comcast's cable networks, regional sports networks, digital properties and certain unconsolidated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:31:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[THQ Inks New Multi-Game Licensing Deals With DreamWorks; Hires New Licensing Head]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ THQ has secured new licensing deals with DreamWorks Animation, giving the company the rights to develop and publish new games based on the studio&#8217;s films and TV series. Financial terms of the multi-year deal weren&#8217;t disclosed, but THQ (NSDQ: THQI) does get to create games for all three consoles,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Europe agrees on plan to revamp policing of banks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUICK SUMMARY | FULL STORY By John O'Donnell and Julien Toyer of Reuters BRUSSELS - European Union ministers have reached a deal to set up super-watchdogs to police financial services, heralding a tougher regime for a banking industry blamed for triggering the economic crisis. "We've got a result," said French...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Darling Warns EU on Regulation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Keith WeirLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - The government has warned its EU partners not to stifle the City of London's financial services industry with excessive regulation, responding to concerns that France will push for tighter rules at its expense.A group representing Britain's bankers also accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:30:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nokia`s 2010 Strategy Includes Symbian Overhaul]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Nokia?s annual Capital Markets Day, the phone maker detailed its strategies for 2010, which include improvements to Symbian and two ?major product milestones.? Analysts worry that Nokia is falling behind Apple and RIM.Nokia executives, looking to position the company for a successful 2010, offered a broad assessment of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:17:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Web giants oppose copyright amendments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Four of the world's largest internet companies have urged Lord Mandelson to drop plans to allow ministers to change UK copyright law without needing primary legislation.Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Ebay have written a joint letter to the business secretary expressing their "grave concerns" at the clause in the Digital...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dubai's Debt Troubles: Beginning of the Next Leg Down?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most of us have heard that Dubai World is asking for a six month delay in paying back its debt. The debt was supposedly backed by the Dubai government, so Standard & Poor's considers this a  default of the Dubai government .      Dubai...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Darling Backs Stronger European Regulation-report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Chancellor Alistair Darling backed tougher Europe-wide financial regulation in a Times article on Wednesday, but stressed that the financial services industry must not be restrained in global competition.Darling came out in support of tougher regulation ahead of an EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Wednesday,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0800</pubDate>
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