This Week's National Business News Headlines

Friday 05.17.2013

• How much of Rahm Emanuel''s folly can Chicago stomach?
• Duly Noted: Tim Cook''s tax proposal, Mark Cuban wants your uniform design, Derrick Rose (Video)
• Harris Bank to pay $400,000 in disability lawsuit
• Cramer-Krasselt waiting to hear if it will continue as ad agency for Porsche
• Tribune settles class-action suit with subscribers
• Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason leaving Chicago for San Francisco; plans to record album
• Thomson Reuters prices $850 million debt offering
• Citigroup traders taken off Bloomberg''s chat services
• Someone just embedded $3 million onto OpenGeo''s map
• Who won''t be around for LOT''s Dreamliner launch
• • CBS held center court for decades, but U.S. Open is ESPN''s tennis match now
  • Duly Noted: Apple''s taxes, LI''s growing economy, more details on Bloomberg LP''s information-gathering (Video)
  • She''s in the game: NY Times Co. exec joins EA board
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 20-22 (Video)
  • IRS commissioner spends four hours explaining a "foolish mistake"
  • World Trade Center or armed camp?
  • "Brooklyn D.A." gives rise to fair-trial concerns
  • United Airlines launching small business loyalty program
  • Austrian Airlines resumes service to Chicago''s O''Hare Airport
  • 5 great hotel apps for your smart phone and tablet
  • Caterpillar reaches settlement, starts to move on from rocky Chinese acquisition
  • 3 things you should do while you still have a job
  • New Jersey lawmakers to try raising cigarette age to 21
  • Chicago could get special rules in Illinois concealed-carry legislation
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
  • Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
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Thursday 05.16.2013

• Obama hands off IRS to Danny Werfel no, not the ex-quarterback
• Jets, Giants still making chess moves on players, salaries
• A last Dunder Mifflin ad to air on "The Office" finale
• Boehner errs on AP controversy: Justice Department didn''t tap phones
• Coors Banquet gives one (and only one) Chicago pub a big honor
• Michael Herlehy, a great Chicago ad man, succumbs to Hodgkin''s disease
• Group launches $660M crowdfunding effort to buy Tribune Co.
• Whole Foods Market goes to a ''happy place''
• Allstate''s catastrophe loss reached $216 million in April
• Emanuel fleshes out McCormick Place development plan Navy Pier revamp now included
• • American Airlines debuts new boarding process at O''Hare
  • Duly Noted: Figuring out the ACA, Benny the Bull, hotel for nursing mothers,
  • Livestream angling for deals in sports, streaming devices
  • Obama wants to talk Turkey, but he''s stuck on scandals instead
  • Navistar sends RV biz on a one-way road trip
  • Christie''s contemporary art auction nets record $495 million
  • Duly Noted: Fast-food labor investigation, Newsweek redesign, LI casino
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb''s drug combo can shrink cancer tumors
  • Merck prices $6.5 billion debt offering
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 17-21 (Video)
  • Quest Diagnostics buys Concentra''s lab business
  • New York takes a taxi ride to a judicial spanking
  • Why Sears won''t join Bangladesh safety accord
  • Tribune CEO: Protests against Kochs "premature"
  • JPMorgan dives in first, asks for Bloomberg employee logs
  • Eric Holder clashes with Republicans as scandal hearings begin in Congress
  • Acting IRS chief loses job over scandal; Obama says ''new leadership'' needed
  • FDA approves Astellas-Genentech lung cancer drug, diagnostic test
  • Trump''s second day on trial brings more drama (Video)
  • Ares to buy Alliant Capital for $63 million, names Schuster co-CEO
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Wednesday 05.15.2013

• State Farm statistics about dogs have real bite
• Duly Noted: Development near Spire, Koch protests, AB-InBev
• Deere earnings beat Street, but cuts sales forecast
• 5 days when you won''t be bothered by the IRS
• What''s the serious craft beer drinker really all about?
• Victor Cruz, Giants inch closer to deal
• Meredith buys Parenting, Babytalk from Bonnier
• 4 happy ways business travel will get better
• Duly Noted: Pataki sides with Greenberg, VC boom, Hader leaving SNL (Video)
• Skift gets seed funds from Huffington Post cofounder
• • City plan to cut retirees'' health-care subsidy draws ire of unions
  • Macy''s grows quarterly profit, sales
  • For Derrick Rose money (lots of it!) may not be everything
  • Rumble On The Rails set to rock Grand Central
  • American Airlines wants new nonstops to Sao Paulo
  • Today is last chance to enter Social Madness
  • Chicago deemed a solid biking town, with room for improvement
  • Rutgers names first woman athletic director
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 16-20
  • Is Michael Bolton making a comeback with Starburst?
  • Wall Street fears Bloomberg not just as snoops, but as competition for client dollars
  • ''Brooklyn D.A.'' reality show or campaign advertising? Let the legal fight begin
  • DePaul arena part of much bigger entertainment, retail complex: report
  • Trump testifying in Chicago trial, Walgreens sponsoring “Apprentice”
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Tuesday 05.14.2013

• Global Brass & Copper plans IPO
• Bloomberg Snoopgate proves power of admitting you''re wrong and apologizing or does it?
• CBO: Deficit to fall to $642 billion this year, but red ink will explode in 2016
• Luna Negra Dance Theater ceases operations
• Duly Noted: Tesla Motors, Sears closing stores, Donald Trump
• Rahm Emanuel''s new arena plan: Five reasons why it''s bad news
• Groupon launches Breadcrumb point-of-sale app for businesses
• The Chicago Bulls lose their spark in TV ratings
• McDonald''s adding new Quarter Pounder choices
• Chicago Cubs launch Website to garner renovation support
• • Chicago firm owns mall installing Hawaii''s largest solar rooftop system
  • Goose Island Beer inks first national sponsorship deal
  • Duly Noted: Toasting Tesla, bashing bikes, spurning Coach (Video)
  • SoundCloud talks move to NYC
  • Cache''s 1Q loss grows, Ark Restaurants cuts loss
  • Savanna selling 5 Hanover Square
  • Bloomberg insists proposed MLS stadium won''t result in lost green space
  • JetBlue plans bilateral codesharing with Emirates
  • Conservative group accuses EPA of playing favorites on FOIA fees
  • Illinois tech job growth rate higher than national average but well behind Michigan, Missouri
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 15-17 (Video)
  • Big Apple might let newsstands sell Extra! Extra!
  • Small businesses feeling better, but they''re still not well
  • Sailing the Gowanus? Dare to dream
  • DePaul expected to get McCormick Place arena; public to chip in on construction cost
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • 3 ways the IRS scandal will shake up Washington politics (Video)
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Monday 05.13.2013

• Atlas Financial profits up, BioSante narrows loss (Video)
• Wrapports'' Grid takes a (brief?) vacation
• Duly Noted: TV shows cluster in Chicago, college students'' online privacy, Rizzo''s new contract
• Levi Ray & Shoup to buy Capella Technologies
• JNS Holdings forms EV-charging systems unit
• AG Schneiderman asks Apple, Google, other cell phone makers to step up device security
• Getty gets a tankful in $72.5 million deal
• Ald. Reilly gears up for battle over parking meters, says city can buy them back
• Women have it rough in the new "hard-working class"
• Duly Noted: World Financial Center leasing, Seaport wedding venue, Seth Meyers
• • Big Apple will get first look at ABC live broadcast app (Video)
  • PVH looks for makeover of Calvin Klein image, Bangladesh safety (Video)
  • JetBlue April traffic up 4.7 percent
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 14-16 (Video)
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • Social Madness 2013 - Nominate your business
  • United Airlines Dreamliner flights ready to resume
  • Who will host "Check, Please!"?: David Manilow builds suspense
  • SoundCloud to set up shop in NYC
  • Hey New York! Still time to enter Social Madness
  • Emanuel says again he won''t seek higher office, will run for second term
  • Half of small business owners say health care reform is bad for them
  • Bloomberg News spying scandal: Editor-in-Chief Winkler apologizes
  • City mulls dumping Pearson after more errors emerge
  • Chicago casino''s winners and losers not clear-cut
  • Jury orders Abbott Labs to pay $2 million in Humira suit
  • WMS shareholders OK Scientific Games merger
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• Who won''t be around for LOT''s Dreamliner launch
• United Airlines launching small business loyalty program
• Austrian Airlines resumes service to Chicago''s O''Hare Airport
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