Motorola Xoom: Apple iPad Rival Advances Tablet Market

When Steve Jobs strode onstage and unveiled the iPad in January 2010, he should have ended his presentation by firing a starting pistol. The news left nearly every other big computer and consumer-electronics maker racing to get into the tablet market that Jobs’ iPad had suddenly created

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Los Angeles school year shortened in teachers deal

Los Angeles school year shortened in teachers deal The Los Angeles teachers union says it has reached a deal with the school district that would shorten the school year by at least five days, as officials cope with a $640 million budget deficit. United Teachers Los Angeles spokeswoman Marla Eby says under the agreement reached […]

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Obama’s 8-Month Nightmare Could Begin Tomorrow

Obama’s 8-Month Nightmare Could Begin Tomorrow For months now, the pundits have predicted doom and gloom for Barack Obama and the Democrats come November. But we’re not totally convinced. A very likely storyline goes something like this (as we’ve already written): Healthcare passes. On Friday, April 2 at 8:30 AM the March jobs numbers come […]

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Can the U.S. Woo Afghanistan Taliban to Switch Sides?

While much of the focus on Tuesday’s unveiling of President Obama’s revamped Afghanistan strategy will be on the number of U.S. troops he’s expected to send, that decision is really a sideshow to the critical battle now under way on the ground.

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GM and German Government Still Wrangling Over Opel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s race to save automaker Opel — and the jobs of its 25,000 employees in Germany — is beginning to look like a high-speed pileup that could cost her at the polls. To get talks with Opel owners General Motors back on track, Merkel is reportedly ready to abandon her previous plan to force GM to sell a controlling stake in its European business to a consortium of Canadian-Austrian car-parts maker Magna International and Russia’s Sberbank

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