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ENERGY: Rooftop solar cells blossom, posing new challenges for power grid
Solar power installations are sprouting on California rooftops like leaves in the spring, but all that renewable energy poses new problems for the aging power grid.
Nov 08, 2009 | 6:05 pm | Loading…
REGION: Nonprofit stepping in where banks fear to lend
In the shrinkage of everything in the Great Recession, growing companies would seem to be cause for celebration. Yet getting a loan to finance expansion has been one of the great frustrations of small companies this year.
Nov 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
RETAIL: Looking for your clothing brand? Might need a map
NEW YORK ---- Some of fashion's best-known names are playing musical chairs.
Nov 07, 2009 | 9:25 pm | Loading…
INTERNET: Chinese agencies fight for control of Web game
BEIJING ---- Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to oversee "World of Warcraft," a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open.
Nov 07, 2009 | 9:25 pm | Loading…
ENERGY: Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual
MASHPEE, Mass. ---- From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.
Nov 07, 2009 | 9:25 pm | Loading…
INTERNET: A growing PayPal could soon overshadow parent eBay
SAN FRANCISCO ---- Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture. But soon, eBay's biggest business will probably be PayPal, the online payments service that has been growing steadily even as the economy has stumb…
Nov 07, 2009 | 9:25 pm | Loading…
ECONOMY: When unemployment last topped 10 percent
WASHINGTON ---- The last time unemployment climbed past 10 percent, "The A-Team" was one of the top 10 TV shows and Michael Jackson was about to release "Thriller."
Nov 06, 2009 | 10:35 am | Loading…
RETAIL: Deja vu: Retailers in DVD price war
NEW YORK ---- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
Nov 06, 2009 | 10:35 am | Loading…
RETAIL: Game could set entertainment record
NEW YORK ---- This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year's record $155 million opening weekend for "The Dark …
Nov 06, 2009 | 9:50 pm | Loading…
EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders
SAN FRANCISCO ---- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.
Nov 06, 2009 | 9:50 pm | Loading…
ENVIRONMENT: Solana Beach group launches 'green' chamber of commerce
SOLANA BEACH ---- Seeking environmentally minded companies throughout San Diego County, the Solana Beach Chamber of Commerce has established a new business organization ---- a "green" chamber.
Nov 05, 2009 | 2:40 pm | Loading…
RETAIL: October sales offer relief to merchants
NEW YORK ---- Consumers, enticed by cooler weather and an improving economy, spent a little more in October, handing the retail industry its second consecutive monthly sales gain after more than a year of declines.
Nov 05, 2009 | 10:35 am | Loading…
HOUSING: Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead of foreclosing
WASHINGTON ---- Can't pay the mortgage? You still might be able to stay in your home. Government-controlled mortgage company Fannie Mae is going to give borrowers on the verge of foreclosure the option of renting their homes for a year.
Nov 05, 2009 | 3:10 pm | Loading…
ECONOMY: Congress votes for more aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON ---- Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.
Nov 05, 2009 | 11:45 am | Loading…
WATER: Local officials praise water deal, say conservation targets achievable
Local water officials praised California's water legislation as a genuine, long-term fix for the drought-plagued state's decaying supply infrastructure. And they said local consumers could hit tough new conservation targets.
Nov 04, 2009 | 7:50 pm | Loading…
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