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California sets rules for TV energy efficiency - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 3 hours 38 minutes ago
(Updates with comments from Gov. Schwarzenegger and Consumer Electronics Association; adds details.)

Figures show record Wall St. profit after bailouts - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 8 hours 44 minutes ago
However, compensation restrictions that came with government support may limit the tax-revenue bonus boost that New York City -- facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit -- usually gets from such Wall Street success, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli explained.

Goldman's apology may make matters worse MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 10 hours 21 minutes ago
Reuters Lloyd Blankfein

U.S. stocks sink on home construction decline - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 9 hours 47 minutes ago
Setting off the move lower, building permits in October fell 4% to a 552,000 annual rate. Economists had expected permits to rise by 0.9% to a rate of 580,000. Building permits are a sign of future construction, with a monthly declining hinting at a still weak consumer going into the holiday season. See story on housing starts.

Discovery Launching Major Science Initiative
Broadcasting & Cable | 6 hours 51 minutes ago
"Be The Future" campaign promoting White House's STEM initiative

Discovery Ties Itself To Obama's Youth Science Literacy Initiative
Multichannel News | 3 hours 45 minutes ago
Multipronged, Multiyear 'Be The Future' Program Cuts Across Science Channel, Discovery Education, Other Platforms

Time Warner Cable Pledges $100 Million For "Connect a Million Minds" Initiative
Broadcasting & Cable | 2 hours 39 minutes ago
Administration hopes to spur student interest in science, tech, engineering and math

Target posts better-than-expected 18% net rise - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 11 hours 18 minutes ago
Net income rose to $436 million, or 58 cents a share, from $369 million, or 49 cents, a year earlier. Sales rose 1.4% to $14.8 billion while credit-card revenue declined 7.5% to $487 million. Same-store sales dropped 1.6%.

Google, publishers push back settlement filing - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 3 hours 16 minutes ago
In a letter filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers ask to delay a scheduled Nov. 9 deadline for their settlement filing until Nov. 13 -- a request that was granted.

JAL to post $1 bln H1 operating loss: report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 58 minutes ago
JAL to post $1 bln H1 operating loss: report

E.U. opens antitrust probe against Thomson Reuters - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 11 hours 55 minutes ago
"Without the possibility of such mapping, customers may potentially be 'locked'-in to working with Thomson Reuters because replacing RICs [Reuters Instrument Codes] by reconfiguring or by rewriting their software applications can be a long and costly procedure," the commission said.

Cisco, EMC, VMware to unveil data-center alliance - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 20 days 8 hours 20 minutes ago
A new book from Ken Auletta should soothe investor worries about the search giant's immediate prospects. But what comes after that?

IRS to mine mortgage-deduction data to snag cheats TaxWatch - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 16 days 9 hours 26 minutes ago
First, some history. Each year, your lender sends you a Form 1098, known as the mortgage-interest statement. The IRS gets a copy, too. It shows the total interest you paid as part of your monthly mortgage payment.

Oil rises on hurricane worries, dollar weakness - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 15 hours 6 minutes ago
The dollar fell against most other major currencies, further raising the investment appeal of dollar-denominated commodities such as oil and gold.

Retail stocks rise as Macy's upgraded - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 9 hours 42 minutes ago
The S&P Retail Index /quotes/comstock/10u!rlx.x (RLX 389.23, +0.48, +0.12%) , outpacing the broader equities market, rose 1.2% to 393.26 in early trading.