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- News briefs
- Condos scrapped in Grove City plan
- Stocks sink after jobs data, then put in rally
- Mortgages in trouble hit record-high 10%
- Health insurer's CEO killed in plane crash
- Worthington drops 300 jobs
- RV sales shift to slow lane
- Car Talk: Replace the rubber, and idle car becomes descendant's jackpot
- Big Lots slumps in November, but CEO remains upbeat
- Fill 'Er Up
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology
- Silver linings seen amid economic gloom
Speakers at the annual forecast breakfast of the Institute for Real Estate Management saw some bright spots amid the economic clouds. - Microsoft hire strikes diversity chord
Chinese Americans at Microsoft and in the community cheered the appointment of Qi Lu as president of the company's Online Services Group, noting the significance of his arrival at the highest ranks of the company. - BlackBerry Storm not as cool as an iPhone, but a harder worker
The new BlackBerry Storm lacks the cool factor of the Apple iPhone, but functions and performance make it a better choice for some professionals. - False alarm: Macs still immune to most viruses
Currently, Mac OS X is essentially immune to the types of viruses that are so common under Windows that Microsoft has finally decided to offer anti-virus software along with Windows. I haven't recommended that Mac users run anti-virus software since well before Mac OS X appeared, because there are no credible threats. - Consumer borrowing drops
U.S. consumers unexpectedly cut back on their borrowing in October as the economy sunk deeper into recession. - Could gas prices fall to $1 a gallon?
Oil prices hit four-year lows Friday as employers cut the highest number of jobs in 34 years. The continuing decline in prices is so dramatic and so sudden that it is raising the prospect that gas prices could soon fall below $1 a gallon. - Feeling less attachment for file-association feature
Q: I frequently receive messages with an attachment that when I try to open, I get a message reading: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel." - Looking for work? Where to check
Despite the loss of 533,000 jobs last month, the most in 34 years, it still may be possible to find a new job ? if you're a nurse, a central banker or a natural-gas-pipeline worker. - Calypso Medical reportedly lays off 36
Calypso Medical laid off 36 workers, or about 20 percent of its work force, the Website Xconomy said Friday. Officials at the Seattle medical... - Eden Bioscience to liquidate assets
After more than a year of limping along, Eden Bioscience said Friday that it will liquidate its assets. The Woodinville-based agricultural science... - Time short, Congress tries to seal auto deal
Racing to seal a deal with the White House, Democratic congressional leaders dispatched aides Saturday to draft an emergency $15 billion aid package to pull Detroit's Big Three automakers from the brink of collapse. - Idled workers occupy Chicago factory for severance
Workers laid off from their jobs at a factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed. - Ireland warns public not to eat Irish pork
Ireland issued an international warning Saturday for people not to consume Irish-produced pork products because they could contain dangerous levels of contaminants. - AP Interview: OPEC head predicts output cuts
Oil markets should brace for a surprise decision on output cuts when OPEC meets Dec. 17, the cartel's president said Saturday, suggesting that reductions could be deeper than expected. - Houston's KBR wins Angolan oil refinery deal
Company and government officials say America's KBR has won an engineering and management contract for a $6.4 billion Angolan oil refinery. - Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion
Deutsche Boerse AG has been secretly talking to NYSE Euronext about a combination that would create the world's leading stock exchange, a German weekly reported Saturday. - Explosion occurs outside bank in Turkey
A small bomb exploded outside a bank in Istanbul, Turkey's business center, on Saturday, wounding one person, police said. - Argentina to give car loans to boost industry
Argentina's auto industry will get a 3.1 billion peso ($900 million) boost with cut-rate loans for first-time new car buyers, the government said Saturday. - Media: Probe of plane crash points to transponder
A Brazilian Air Force investigation has concluded that a switched-off transponder contributed to a plane crash that killed 154 people in 2006, local media reported on Saturday. - Pilgrim's Pride town stays calm despite bankruptcy
Chicken tycoon Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim drives a few miles down U.S. Hwy. 271 some Saturday mornings, buys a $3.99 oatmeal breakfast at Herschel's Restaurant and hands out $20 bills along with a "Jesus Saves" pamphlet. - Thai opposition says it can form next government
Thailand's main opposition party said Saturday it plans to form a new government with the help of defectors from the ruling coalition, a move certain to appease an anti-government group that recently paralyzed the capital, shutting down its main international airport for a week. - Sarkozy meets eastern EU state leaders on climate
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France met with the leaders of nine heavily coal-dependent eastern European countries on Saturday and emerged saying more needs to be done to sell them an ambitious European Union climate deal. - British government talks to car manufacturers
The British government said Saturday that it is discussing how to help car manufacturers cope with falling sales and funding problems. - Iraq to resume oil sales to South Korean firm SK
Iraq's Oil Ministry has agreed to resume oil sales to the South Korean company SK Energy after the company withdraws from a contract with the Kurds, an official said Saturday. - WHO limits melamine in food, says traces seem safe
The World Health Organization said Friday that tiny traces of the chemical melamine are not harmful in most foods, but it joined the U.S. and EU in setting a strict limit that regulators should impose before pulling products off the shelf. - China's 1st private airline suspends flights early
China's first private airline, suffering from financial and management woes, began a planned one-month suspension of passenger service 10 days early Saturday after skittish airports insisted on cash to refuel i