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• Behind the music of MTV

  As business how-to books go, there are few as entertaining as Bill Roedy's "What Makes Business Rock." Roedy exited Viacom's MTV Networks...  

• Manhattan going digital

  New York City will be on digital display this week. Internet Week kicks off tomorrow, bringing together members of the city's tech scene across...  

• FCC to probe Falcone's network

  Federal regulators want to talk to Phil Falcone about his wireless network's leakage problem. The Federal Communications Commission will take...  
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  Watchdog bites

  Peter Schiff runs a smallish Connecticut brokerage firm called Euro Pacific Capital, which he'd like to make bigger. But securities regulators, complains Schiff, won't allow him to hire more workers and expand. "I wanted to open 10 more offices...  

• Weddings can be a taxing time for couples

  It's so easy to overlook some details in preparing for a wedding. You've booked the best caterer on the planet for your June wedding, the one with...  

• Road test a site

  For small businesses, hiring a consultant to bring in a panel of users to critique your Web site may be an unaffordable expense. Even for large...  

• The week's winners and losers

  WINNERS ANDREW MASON Groupon co-founder prepares to clip his company’s $750M IPO coupon. CHRIS ALBRECHT Starz pay-TV boss eyes $350M windfall from...  
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  Sputter & stall: Poor jobs report puts economy in slow lane

  Employers delivered more dreary news on the faltering economy yesterday, hiring barely a third of the workers that economists had expected in May and pushing up the nation's jobless rate again. Stocks slumped and the dollar declined on the...  

• SAC money manager admits insider trading

  For the first time, former SAC Capital money manager Noah Freeman yesterday admitted to insider trading while at the hedge fund giant run by the...  
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  Romney's firm made profit on Duane Reade

  While Mitt Romney made his political mark in Massachusetts, one of his boldest, most critical business decisions happened in New York. In 1992, Romney, who this week tossed his hat into the Republican presidential race and is the early...  

• Walmart's buyback bet

  Walmart keeps buying back its own stock, but investors aren't following suit. The world's biggest retailer -- which yesterday staged a splashy...  

• Reports sink RIM shares

  Research In Motion shares dropped to their lowest level in two years as two brokerage firms cut their price targets for the BlackBerry maker and a...  

• ABC, Couric near talk deal

  Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is close to an agreement with Katie Couric for a syndicated talk show, two people with knowledge of the situation said. The...  

• Hackers: last Sony hit a snap

  Another massive data breach at Sony has left hackers exulting, customers steaming and security experts questioning why basic fixes haven't been made to...  

• EBay drops PayPal from Alibaba

  EBay Inc.'s PayPal said it will no longer be a payment option on Alibaba.com Ltd.'s AliExpress site after Aug. 3 because of "commercial reasons."...  

• Paulson timber holding plunges deeper

  Sino-Forest Corp., whose largest shareholder is New York-based hedge fund Paulson & Co., plunged a second day after a short seller said the forestry...  

• Business briefs

  GM shares General Motors execu tives have discussed buy ing shares from the US Treasury to reduce the government's 33 percent stake, three people...