Post office to be the new place to get insurance (The Age)
Australia Post will use its network of more than 4400 shops to enter the personal insurance market. More: continued here
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FedEx Cup playoffs wide open after first round at Liberty National (Golf Magazine)
The start of the FedEx Cup playoffs provedthat what happened at Hazeltine did notstay there. More: continued here
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EBay Confirms Sale of Skype Stake (New York Times)
EBay confirmed Tuesday that it would sell a majority interest in its Skype Internet calling division to a group of private investors. More: continued here
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Post office hours (Rushville Republican)
Rushville Post Office has been operating on summer hours (9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.). More: continued here
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Town postal workers plan strike (BBC News)
Postal workers in King’s Lynn announce the date of a new strike in their fight against Royal Mail modernisation plans. More: continued here
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EBay partially undoes Skype deal, selling majority (AP via Yahoo! News)
Rather than enduring the uncertainty of spinning off the Skype telecommunications service through a public stock offering, eBay Inc. has found a different way out: It is selling the majority of Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors. More: continued here
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eBay Punts Skype for $1.9 Billion, Keeps 35% (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Congratulations to eBay for managing to rid itself of eBay without taking another pounding. People are talking about a “$2.75 billion valuation,” but that is funny money. And to get even the $1.9 billion the private investors will pay, eBay had to kick in a $125 million “loan” to lube the deal. More: continued here
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Stamps’ Johnson quickly adjusts to Canadian game (Canada.com)
It took Tim Johnson all of six days to make an impact in the Calgary Stampeders’ lineup. More: continued here
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Investing In Stamps (The Motley Fool)
Stamps were once a childhood hobby, but do they make sense as an alternative investment? More: continued here
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eBay (EBAY) calls more active than pu… – StreetInsider.com (subscription)
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