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Steve Cahalan: Holmen winery to open next month
Laurie and Gordon Buchner hope to open a wine store and winery around March 1 at 205 S. Holmen Drive in the Holmen Drive Plaza building, where United Auto Supply and Holmen Hardware Hank also have stores. The WineSitters will be in the space formerly occupied by a Flowers…
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New report: Consumers spent modestly in January
Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.
Feb 09, 2010 | 11:05 pm
AOL integrates Facebook chat with AIM
As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.
Feb 09, 2010 | 11:05 pm
Asia stocks rise as Europe debt crisis fears ease
Asian stock markets mostly rose Wednesday after Europe and Wall Street gained on hopes a government debt crisis in Europe can be quarantined to smaller economies.
Feb 09, 2010 | 10:45 pm
Honda adds 437,000 cars to global air bag recall
Honda Motor Co. is adding 437,000 vehicles to its 15-month old global recall for faulty airbags in the latest quality problem to hit a Japanese automaker.
Feb 09, 2010 | 10:10 pm
Consumers tepid as Disney posts flat 1Q profit
Consumers sent tepid signals to The Walt Disney Co. during the holiday quarter, as many of them still required discounts to step into theme parks and reduced spending on food, beverages and merchandise when they got there.
Feb 09, 2010 | 7:35 pm
Micron to buy Numonyx in $1.3 billion stock deal
Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.
Feb 09, 2010 | 6:50 pm
Honda expands airbag inflation recall
Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday.
Feb 09, 2010 | 6:20 pm
New indictment boosts charges against Rajaratnam
Federal prosecutors boosted their insider trading charges case Tuesday against the man they say was behind history's largest hedge fund insider trading case.
Feb 09, 2010 | 6:10 pm
Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.
Feb 09, 2010 | 5:35 pm
Stocks jump on hopes for Greece debt rescue
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that a resolution was near for Greece's debt crisis.
Feb 09, 2010 | 5:10 pm
RealNetworks, MTV to spin off Rhapsody
RealNetworks Inc. and MTV Networks said Tuesday that they plan to spin off Rhapsody America LLC, their digital music service joint venture, into an independent company.
Feb 09, 2010 | 5:05 pm
Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss
Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:55 pm
Strong overseas sales put fizz in Coca-Cola's 4Q
International sales again added fizz to Coca-Cola's fourth quarter, while sales in North America softened, to lift profit 55 percent in the last three months of the year.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:50 pm
Another winter blast helps boost heating oil price
Heating oil prices got a boost Tuesday as the second powerful storm in four days threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the East Coast.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:25 pm
Paulson says nation may profit from bank bailout
Henry Paulson, the former Treasury chief, and billionaire Warren Buffett said taxpayers will recover every cent paid out to banks during the economic meltdown and may even turn a profit.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:20 pm
Job openings plunged by one-quarter last year
Finding a job got much tougher last year, as the number of available openings fell by nearly one quarter.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:15 pm
Warner CEO sees e-book `fracas' as helping music
The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.
Feb 09, 2010 | 3:15 pm
PayPal's India transaction block could last months
Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:25 pm
UBS makes Q4 profit, but withdrawals continue
Swiss bank UBS AG posted a fourth-quarter profit of 1.205 billion Swiss francs ($1.12 billion) Tuesday, beating analysts' expectations partly thanks to a tax credit, but disappointing investors with news that rich clients are still withdrawing large sums of money.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:30 pm
