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		<title>HP restructures, plans to lay off thousands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley Epperson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In May 2012, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced a multi-year restructuring aimed at streamlining its business and generating savings that HP plans to reinvest in cloud computing, big data and analytics, and security. The news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eaton Corp. eats up Cooper Industries in mega deal for manufacturing sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Manufacturing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eaton buying Cooper Industries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way to get a feel for how the economy is going is to note mergers and acquisitions occurring in the manufacturing sector. After all, this sector has been slowly picking up steam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audience measurement improves for magazine publishers</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/W95oNETbVEU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few years now, magazine publishers have struggled over how to accurately assess audience readership on mobile devices such as the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Questions like number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switch, router markets improve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The global Ethernet switch market is in the cloud &#8212; virtually, anyway. Worldwide sales of Ethernet switches totaled $5.1 billion in first quarter 2012, a 7.4 percent increase from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Eagle Outfitters to drop 77kids brand, grow aerie line</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/jVO58MhRYqc/</link>
		<comments>http://bizmology.hoovers.com/2012/05/23/american-eagle-outfitters-to-drop-77kids-business-branch-out-aerie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Lambert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Products]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[77kids]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Teen apparel retailer American Eagle Outfitters, which announced stronger than expected quarterly profit today, is looking to branch out as it drops its unprofitable kid’s clothing chain 77kids from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepaid debit cards face new regulations</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/c5TNeZNLFZE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Huchzermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hottest financial products out there will soon get a little reining in. Prepaid debit cards, which are used by some 7 million Americans to buy goods, pay bills, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sears Holdings to cut stake in Sears Canada</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/DM2TrR3DTyc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Biesada</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calvin McDonald]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Lampert]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sears is struggling on both sides of the US-Canada border. So it wasn&#8217;t much of a surprise when the US parent of Sears Canada, Sears Holdings, announced plans to dramatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOE pursues new deepwater drilling technologies</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/NCWWu-268Kg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Hampton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy & Utilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cementing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deepwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drilling technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal grants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rigs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[smart technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subsea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Energy pursues new deepwater drilling technologies in collaboration with oil companies, agencies, and universities.]]></description>
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		<title>Doldrums lift for wind power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrice Sarath</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Utilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Wind Connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electric power generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Energies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marubeni]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=71163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe wind power isn’t doing so badly after all, despite my colleague Lee Simmons’ post of a few weeks ago. The Google-backed Atlantic Wind Connection has just received approval for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houghton Mifflin files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bizmology/~3/201qxfmzunE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrice Sarath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bankruptcy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, another sign that the publishing and book retail industries continue to struggle. In Houghton Mifflin’s case, the pressure [...]]]></description>
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