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• The Daily Record News Briefs: February 6, 2009

  - 2009-02-06

  Upstate Caucus sets action plan New York State Sen. Joe Robach this week announced this week that the Senate's Upstate Caucus has agreed on a tentative action plan for issues facing Rochester and Upstate New York. The group's second meeting focused on Empire Zones,...

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• Insurance for one-armed bandits

  - 2007-08-06

  As the state approves a $700,000 study of problem gamblers and their cost to society, it may soon cost a little less for gamblers to procure insurance to cover their losses. Walker Digital Management L.L.C. has developed a system for gamblers to purchase insurance policies based on both actual and...

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• Founder of Stamford, Conn., Invention Lab Says Internet Effects Just Beginning.

  - 2004-05-10

  By Julie Fishman-Lapin, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 10--The dawn of the Internet has already changed the world, but we have only just begun to feel the effect the World Wide Web will have on modern society, inventor...

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• Norwalk, Conn., Man Creates Homeland Security Monitoring System.

  - 2003-09-07

  By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 7--NORWALK, Conn.--Like citizens throughout the United States, Priceline.com founder Jay Walker saw the horror of the 9/11 attacks and wondered how America could protect itself from more terrorism. ...

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• Are patents stifling innovation?

  - 2003-08-04

  BOSTON -- In the early 1990s, Tim O'Reilly's company had a new and potentially lucrative idea: Use advertising revenue to run a Web portal. Essentially, O'Reilly claims, Global Network Navigator invented the Internet banner ad. According to a landmark court decision handed down five years ago this month,...

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• Spot the Terrorist

  - 2003-05-12

  Jay Walker achieved fame and fortune as an internet pioneer (Priceline.com), then notoriety and considerably less fortune as an icon of the dot-com bust. But his legacy might one day be a sweeping scheme for homeland security that doesn't earn him a buck. For the past few months, Walker has...

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• Priceline Founder Wants to Form Network to Boost Homeland Security Remotely.

  - 2003-05-05

  By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• Entrepreneur Describes Changes of Digital Age to Youngstown, Ohio, Audience.

  - 2002-10-30

  By Peter H. Milliken, Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 30--YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio--The digital age represents as profound a change in our world as the advent of electric power more than 100 years ago, an information-age entrepreneur told an audience Tuesday...

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• Connecticut Settles Worker Suit with Stamford Company.

  - 2002-09-05

  By Stephania H. Davis, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 5--STAMFORD, Conn.--Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Wednesday a settlement in the state's suit against Walker Digital Corp. of Stamford. Connecticut charged that the company laid off workers...

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• The Philadelphia Inquirer Business People Column.

  - 2001-09-10

  The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--CREDIT CARDS TO A DOT-COM AND BACK TO CREDIT CARDS: Randy Christofferson -- chemical engineer, rock-and-roll guitarist, family man, hockey and surfing enthusiast, and popularizer of the neighborhood ball game known as extreme boccie -- resigned...

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