The Washington Post reported that Google is negotiating an information-sharing agreement with the National Security Agency (NSA) to help the company defend its networks.
The NSA is part of the military, and its primary mission is spying. It
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/9rZtPFVg2Ho/1385961 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1385961 The Washington Post reported that Google is negotiating an information-sharing agreement with the National Security Agency (NSA) to help the company defend its networks.

The NSA is part of the military, and its primary mission is spying. It collects
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/tyisfequbJE/1385989 http://www.care2.com/news/member/364341163/1385989 Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of
shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citicorp.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/Bt9t3Lahmao/1384620 http://www.care2.com/news/member/694773565/1384620 New voluntary program gives a bigger employee discount to those who meet certain health criteria.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/tIVpluRI0QA/1384978 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/1384978 Sugarcane coir can be a source of power generation at a time when the country faces a crisis in meeting the rising demand for electricity, industry minister Dilip Barua said Sunday.

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/W0Jer8sxU6c/1383701 http://www.care2.com/news/member/343293987/1383701 Going about their day-to-day business, bees have no need to be able to recognise human faces.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/rMpIKg1h16I/1384038 http://www.care2.com/news/member/711434921/1384038 A wave of political and sectarian violence sweeping Karachi threatens heavy financial losses in the country's economic hub, where analysts fear Islamists are bent on fanning maximum instability.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/JDT3oOFbgSA/1383307 http://www.care2.com/news/member/763763765/1383307 ...many do not realize that behind the channel is less choice. Currently, only 6 corporations control most of what Americans hear, see, & read.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants/
Viacom, NewsCorp, Sony, AOL/TimeWarner, Disney....
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/izt56UqF8ao/1382269 http://www.care2.com/news/member/694773565/1382269 The mighty Ramu River valley in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea flows for some 450 miles (720 km) - through over a million hectares (2.47 million acres) of sparsel
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/q3zJ4bgMTlE/1382758 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1382758 I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational. Examining typical laundry packaging from this design perspective provid
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/nujElqd1Gkg/1382311 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1382311 The banking behemoths have used our dollars to destroy our economy. The Move Your Money campaign says we don't have to wait for financial reform to fight back.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/5EmjUAMW6w0/1381184 http://www.care2.com/news/member/694773565/1381184 Bank of America is killing a terminally ill customer by stealing his Social Security Disability income.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/2Vk6kNKIki4/1380856 http://www.care2.com/news/member/410531040/1380856 The research, published in PLoS ONE, found parts of eastern Ecuador and northern Peru to be uniquely rich in amphibians, birds, mammals and plants. But the scientists also say that oil companies are working, or due to work, in a massive 79% of the region.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/m47e_RcqCGs/1381019 http://www.care2.com/news/member/343293987/1381019 Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBC President Jeff Zucker testified in front of House and Senate subcommittees Thursday as regulators decide whether to allow the proposed merger of the two media giants. *** This article is a must read, it applies to all.**
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/KirESyeBjyw/1381924 http://www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/1381924 As Haiti continues to dig out from the earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince, local microlenders are gearing up to begin rebuilding the country's shattered economy.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/dUVnv9kI13A/1379840 http://www.care2.com/news/member/694773565/1379840 Last year, AIG gave out $450 million in bonuses to the very people who wrecked our economy. And despite the uproar that caused, and the fact that AIG still owes taxpayers $182 billion, they're at it again.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/pLdHI13GzDY/1380824 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1380824 In sharp contrast with the long-running success story that is Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, the Hong Kong version is struggling. After facing harsh criticism over opaque business operations, Hong Kons Disneyland, the second of the storied theme parks
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/f-vyaJRQo3Q/1380481 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100330942/1380481 TOKYO – Toyota faced fresh doubts about braking problems in its prized Prius, with complaints swelling to about 180 in the U.S. and Japan, as the automaker sought to salvage its reputation amid massive global recalls over gas-pedal problems in eight
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/21naoxydKpM/1380265 http://www.care2.com/news/member/407433860/1380265 European nations agreed on Tuesday how they would carve up billions of euros of European Union funding to help develop advanced renewable power or carbon-trapping technology.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/smsW7V75kpk/1379838 http://www.care2.com/news/member/694773565/1379838 Former homeowners may still be on the hook if there's a difference between what they owed on their mortgage and what the bank could sell it for at auction
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/WOYfSg1LVfw/1380087 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/1380087 The real economic State of the Union for the U.S. is questionable at best, and if you can imagine a gaping wound with Monopoly money pouring out, then you will have a better understanding of our dire situation. We need votes, signatures & forwarding! TY!!
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/IxNG88RHFSo/1379919 http://www.care2.com/news/member/510010530/1379919 About 5.1 million will own a home valued below 75 percent of what is owed
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/eG7WKmo3xtw/1379255 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/1379255 Peru's mining, oil and energy association (SNMPE) said Saturday it has expelled US mining company Doe Run from its roster for not cleaning up its pollution problems, which environmentalists say are amongst the worst in the world


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/KdVxnBsFSNo/1379284 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/1379284 A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake of the devastating earthquake. At a time when Haitian commercial banks remain closed,
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According to findings by a third-party research group, the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) continues to be one of the most effective marketing opportunities for aut
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/rJSuPJIxUQQ/1375996 http://www.care2.com/news/member/831978964/1375996 Right now, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is deciding if he'll allow corporations with American interests to genetically engineer India's King of Vegetables—the brinjal.The U.S.-backed companies say the Bt Brinjal will be free from pests, but ????????
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/pAxy0EX1CY0/1376927 http://www.care2.com/news/member/576059368/1376927 The International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India received a parcel from Mumbai, in which some FIR's along with a CD we found, against black sheep's in the system, we strongly oppose animal abuse and cruel animal transportation in India
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/itwLhltcdy0/1376583 http://www.care2.com/news/member/576059368/1376583 DAVOS, Switzerland - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.

Calling upon
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/kWXh6GqOQqk/1375901 http://www.care2.com/news/member/213931729/1375901 Honda announced the voluntary recall of over a half a million Fit compact cars for a faulty part that has the potential of catching fire.

The company said that 646,000 of their

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/b9OsaVgFXH4/1374801 http://www.care2.com/news/member/407433860/1374801 So far, wind turbines are not Sputnik. But one day they could be.

The global race to develop clean technology is not just about who can build the best solar parks or wind farms.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/qr1NGywnsAQ/1372834 http://www.care2.com/news/member/486266082/1372834 Credit card companies must stop profiting from disaster.

Major credit card companies take a big cut from donations to charitable organizations as "transaction fees." This is money desperately needed by survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, refugees in
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/GDjggcYvUlU/1373069 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100661215/1373069 The majority of workers who labor as "rubber tappers" must carry two heavy buckets of raw latex weighing 75 pounds each on both ends of a stick on their back for miles. This
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/3h8qDcmzSj4/1373247 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1373247 As sports fans gear up for the NFL Super Bowl next week, the Halftime show sponsor, Bridgestone/Firestone, continues to exploit workers on its rubber plantation in Liberia.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/DM6GbzKe4Bw/1372930 http://www.care2.com/news/member/364341163/1372930 Right now, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is deciding if he’ll allow corporations with American interests to genetically engineer India’s King of Vegetables — the brinjal.

Here’s a new way to persuade the minister to protect India’s brinjal: We’re
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/M3FGbganH7Y/1372679 http://www.care2.com/news/member/364341163/1372679 Right before the New York Times published an article questioning the pervasive use of ammonia in beef processing, lawyers at Marler Clark, LLP, a food safety litigation firm based in Seattle, sent a formal request to Iowa State University seeking public r
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/K_gW_6YQi1M/1372705 http://www.care2.com/news/member/465852358/1372705 Millions of people are still out of work in this economic crisis. On top of this, our nation's water infrastructure is crumbling, risking your health and wasting tax dollars. We have an opportunity to maintain our clean water infrastructure while creati
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/1XP1kfI600E/1372707 http://www.care2.com/news/member/364341163/1372707 With a growing demand to increase the sustainable attributes of consumer products, "innovation" is the name of the game in almost every industry - including plastics. And like 'em or leave 'em, our use of this material only continues to rise.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/9Xu46rsGdtw/1371809 http://www.care2.com/news/member/918337647/1371809 Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador--Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leavin
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WASHINGTON -- Toyota suspended U.S. sales of some of its most popular vehicles -- including the best-selling car in America, the Camry -- to fix sticking gas pedals that could make the cars accelerate without warning.

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/e7yIux6bJ4Q/1371943 http://www.care2.com/news/member/640795881/1371943 The four-letter word that will dominate President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday -- jobs -- could be the savior for faltering climate control legislation, or at least that's environmentalists' latest hope.

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/l27H72kALpg/1371641 http://www.care2.com/news/member/486266082/1371641 High Profile Purchase of Manhattan Complex Collapses Under Debt Mountain..Commercial Real Estate in Trouble?
By LINGLING WEI And MIKE SPECTOR
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