Microsoft Deploying In-Store Customer-Service Reps

As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases. >>More

Home Loan Troubles
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Google Reigns As World's Most Powerful 10-Year-Old
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their be...

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Asia, Europe Markets Sink After Wall Street Plunge
Asian stock markets plunged Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth. European...

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Home Loan Troubles Break Records Again
The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loan...

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Microsoft Deploying In-Store Customer-Service Reps
As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-servic...
Home Loan Troubles Break Records Again
The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had sol...

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Wall Street Close: Stocks Mostly Rise on Financias
Wall Street wrestled with intensifying economic worries Friday, extending sharp losses after a disheartening jobs report and then grudgingly engaging...
Wall Street Midday: Stocks Fall as Jobs Data Stirs Fear
Wall Street slid for a second straight session Friday on news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and ...

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Prisons Scramble to Make Digital TV Switch
The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across th...
New eBay Site Has Social, Environmental Aim
Most consumers probably associate eBay Inc. more with vintage lunch boxes and low-priced electronics than with laptop bags made from recycle...