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  • cvs nail polish remover
  • There is a new requirement for anyone who wants to purchase nail polish remover at one of the nation's largest pharmacy chains.
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  • The rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell in the second quarter to 0.57 percent, the lowest level since 1994.
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  • A judge on Friday refused a request by Apple to temporarily suspend her ruling that it violated antitrust laws.
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  • crash tests small cars
  • Six of 12 small cars performed well in front-end crash tests conducted by an insurance industry group, but some popular models fared poorly in the safety evaluations.
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  • A federal judge on Wednesday ordered BP to pay more than $130 million in fees to the court-supervised administrator of its multibillion-dollar settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents after the company's 2010 oil spill.
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  • taco bell waffle taco
  • Taco Bell says it's expanding its small test of waffle tacos, as it prepares to take its breakfast menu national sometime next year.
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  • seamless
  • New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office has reached a settlement with Seamless North America and GrubHub, the two leading online food-ordering services in Manhattan meant to ensure rivals can compete after their proposed merger.
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  • aging cars kept longer
  • Americans are keeping their cars and trucks longer than ever, and even with new car sales increasing, the average age will continue to rise, an industry research firm says.
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  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out publicly for the first timein favor of immigration reform, an issue he's been working on behind the scenes for several months.
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  • chevron oil refinery fire
  • Chevron on Monday agreed to pay $2 million in fines and restitution and pleaded no contest to six charges in connection with a fire at its refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Richmond.
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  • jfk airport jet blue
  • JetBlue is making a play for corporate road warriors.
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  • Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of "old media": The Washington Post.
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  • time warner cbs
  • CBS and Time Warner Cable can't work out their differences, so they want viewers to help settle the fight.
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  • time warner cbs
  • Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas lost access to CBS programming in a fee dispute Friday.
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  • Starbucks says it's reached a deal to partner with Google that will allow it to offer dramatically faster Wi-Fi service.
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  • saks sold
  • Luxury retailer Saks is being purchased by the parent of Lord & Taylor for approximately $2.4 billion.
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  • Apple's sales of older, less expensive iPhones climbed in its latest quarter, highlighting the challenges facing the world's most valuable technology company.
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  • Taco Bell
  • The chain says it will start removing the options this month at select restaurants, and that no U.S. restaurants will have them by next January.
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  • The case could determine whether Toyota should be held liable for sudden unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
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  • gas prices
  • The new price is $3.56 a gallon along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway on Friday.
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  • Dell has delayed Thursday's vote on founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private in a sign the board needs more time to rally support.
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  • Twinkies fans can soak up their favorite sponge cake once again, as the Hostess snack returns to store shelves nationwide Monday.
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  • The company plans to recalibrate the vehicle control systems on 77,000 Ford C-Max and Fusion hybrids and Lincoln MKZ hybrids from the 2013 model year.
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  • atlantic city revel casino
  • Atlantic City's newest casino, Revel Casino-Hotel, laid off 75 managerial and professional employees Monday even as it announced its first profitable week since opening more than a year ago.
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  • Twinkies fans can soak up their favorite sponge cake once again, as the Hostess snack returns to store shelves nationwide Monday.
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  • The stock market is closing at a record high after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would continue to support the U.S. economy.
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  • Pork prices may be on the rise in the next few months because of a new virus that has migrated to the U.S.
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  • The judge at a New York civil anti-trust trial has found that Apple Inc. conspired with publishers to raise electronic book prices.
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  • Americans increased their borrowing in May at the fastest pace in a year. Borrowing in the category that includes credit cards reached its highest point since the fall of 2010.
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  • Hiring is exploding in the one corner of the U.S. economy where few want to be hired: Temporary work.
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  • new york city domain .nyc
  • New York City likes to think of itself as a domain like no other, and now it's close to being able to boast as much on the web.
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  • spotify
  • Mayor Michael Bloomberg says music streaming service Spotify's plan to expand in New York is music to his ears.
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  • mohegan sun
  • Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino announced Tuesday its first major expansion in five years with a $50 million project calling for more retail space, featuring a New England food market, a multiplex movie theater, bowling and clothing stores.
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  • The Seattle-based coffee company says it's hiking prices on average by 1 percent nationally starting Tuesday.
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starbucks, business
  • apple 1 apple one auction
  • An Apple 1 from 1976, one of the first Apple computers ever built and forerunner of today's MacBooks, IPads and IPhones, goes on the auction block at Christie's this week.
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apple, business
  • The company that went bankrupt after an acrimonious fight with its unionized workers last year is back up and running under new owners and a leaner structure.
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  • The rap mogul has been certified by the NBA players' association, spokesmen for the union and Roc Nation Sports said Thursday.
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  • Facebook is adding video to its popular photo-sharing app Instagram, following in the heels of Twitter's growing video-sharing app, Vine.
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  • Financial markets settled down Friday after the turbulence caused by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's admission that the central bank may be done with its monetary stimulus next year.
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  • atlantic city revel casino
  • Revel, the $2.4 billion resort that lasted less than a year before filing for bankruptcy, is changing its name to Revel Casino-Hotel.
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  • Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.
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  • Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content.
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  • Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data between Dec. 1, 2012 and May 31.
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  • Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software.
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  • lululemon
  • Lululemon is on the hunt for a new CEO.
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  • Battery maker Exide Technologies is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it attempts to restructure its U.S. business.
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  • Business information and analytics firm IHS says it will spend $1.4 billion to buy the privately held R.L. Polk, which operates vehicle history report provider Carfax.
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  • The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May- a steady pace that shows strength in the face of tax increases and government spending cuts if not enough to reduce still-high unemployment.
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  • lululemon
  • Lululemon says it is starting to get its Luon yoga pants, which were pulled in March for being too sheer, back into its stores.
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