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May 08, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Teacher Escapes Firing for 'Offensive' Postings About Students

A fifth-grade teacher who posted on Facebook that her students are "all the devils [sic] spawns" and that she wished they would drown cannot be fired, a unanimous state appellate panel ruled.
7 minute read
August 27, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Politics can drive stimulus priorities

There hasn't been much "change" in Washington despite President Obama's promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics. The administration is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence.
6 minute read
January 24, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Vivendi's Levy targets Lady Gaga fans in Brazil to drive revenue

Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, home to artists such as Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey, is targeting broadband users in emerging markets like Brazil by signing deals with phone providers there to carry online music services.
3 minute read
December 17, 2012 | Daily Business Review

U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison rejects most SEC claims in corruption case

The federal judge rejected "the vast majority" of Securities and Exchange Commission claims in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case but left the door open for a revised complaint.
4 minute read
September 15, 2011 | Daily Business Review

'Merry band of litigators' celebrates 20 years

The Institute for Justice has championed libertarian causes ranging from eminent domain challenges to gun rights. The Washington-based litigators plan to expand with a Florida chapter.
6 minute read
September 20, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Judicial Profile: Yvonne Colodny Champions Heat On Court, Defendants In Court

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Yvonne Colodny, a diehard Miami Heat fan, comes from a prominent North Miami family.
5 minute read
December 21, 2010 | Daily Business Review

TD Bank to buy Chrysler Financial in $6.3 billion deal

Toronto-Dominion Bank agreed to buy Chrysler Financial Corp. from Cerberus Capital Management LP for $6.3 billion in cash, adding an auto-finance company in its second-largest acquisition.
4 minute read
December 17, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Visa cuts off 100 merchants for scamming consumers

Among the most common hustles: billing the credit cards of customers who thought they were getting free trial products like dietary supplements or teeth whiteners $79.95 per month or more, and then making them jump through hurdles to get the charges to stop.
5 minute read
November 08, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Groupon chairman faces profitability test after IPO

Eric Lefkofsky prodded Andrew Mason in 2008 into giving up work on a website called The Point to focus on a successor project -- an e-commerce company called Groupon Inc.
8 minute read
September 24, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Meltdown gives consumers a new money mindset

People are saving more and spending less. The personal savings rate has risen to more than 4 percent after sinking to near zero in the months before last fall's meltdown. The number of people getting financial counseling is 3.2 million, double the amount two years ago.
8 minute read

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