Activist investor Carl Icahn told eBay Inc shareholders in a new letter on Thursday he has "not yet begun to fight" to get the e-commerce company to spin off its PayPal payments unit. Icahn, who owns just over 2 percent of eBay, also used the letter to lay out new …
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STXNEWS LATAM-Banco do Brasil submits post office accord to antitrust …ReutersBanco do Brasil SA, the nation's largest lender, submitted late on Wednesday to anti-trust watchdog Cade the terms of a merger with a lender controlled by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos SA, Brazil's post office, according to a securities …
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Read More »LinkedIn co-founder defends eBay – CNBC.com
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Postal workers to picket Ben's in Belleville over in-store post officeBelleville News DemocratA postal workers union is planning to picket along the sidewalks Friday outside Ben's Crafts & Floral because the downtown Belleville retailer houses a new post office. Edward Eversman, vice president Southwestern Illinois Area Local 407 of the …
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MSNBC Minimum Wage Boost Would Cut Food Stamp Tab by $4.6 BillionWall Street Journal (blog)The estimate published by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, is among the first to assess the effect of increasing the minimum wage on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (better known as food …
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Somerville will host a public meeting Thursday to discuss the impending sale of the historic Somerville Main Post Office in Union Square. The meeting will be convened by the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission at 7 p.m. in the third-floor conference room of City Hall, 93 Highland Ave. The US Postal …
Read More »Jon Stewart Blasts Fox’s Obsession With Food Stamps – Huffington Post (satire)
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