Allegedly communicated with minister on cable deal.

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Inquiry Grills Murdoch Lobbyist

Business Secretary Vince Cable has attacked a plan being considered by fellow ministers to make it easier for companies to sack workers.

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One was a lumber salesman who crippled a 78-year-old woman. Another was driving a toy company’s van when he killed a college sophomore. When a cable company guy rammed a stopped car at 71 mph, a woman and her mother died. A driver in a com­pany car didn’t react when traffic slowed, rear-ending a Honda in a chain-reaction crash that killed a 32-year-old woman. Read full article > >

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Employees use of cellphones while driving becomes a liability for companies

Come on, baseball. Get a move on, Commissioner. It’s way past time to get MASN to fork over the hundreds of millions of dollars in future cable TV fees to which the Washington Nationals have every contractual right. Read full article > >

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Washington Nationals are due a bigger check from MASN for TV rights

I’m clinging to a cable attached to a rock face. The trail ahead — actually, more of a three-foot-wide platform cut into the rock — mirrors the zig and zag of the canyon wall. I’m not a fan of heights, nor is my traveling companion, who has reluctantly agreed to hike this far into France’s Gorges du Verdon, or Verdon Gorge. Read full article > >

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In France’s Verdon Gorge — and maybe in too deep

The Washington Post Co. first quarter earnings doubled from a year earlier, but excluding one-time items profits fell. The company’s broadcast division did well and its cable division held steady, but The Post’s once-lucrative Kaplan education unit lost money, the flagship Washington Post newspaper daily circulation plunged 9.8 percent to under half million, and ad revenues continued to slide both in print and online publications. Read full article > >

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Washington Post Co. first quarter earnings double; ad revenue continues slide

The technology industry is working on viewing options that could include apps, a move that has the potential to transform cable television’s interface and business model.

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Developers Are Working on Television Apps, but TV Industry Is Wary

UK Business Secretary Vince Cable says all UK exports to Argentine armed forces are being halted amid tension over the Falkland Islands.

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UK curbing exports to Argentina

The so-called war on women escalated Thursday onto a new front, after a Democratic strategist and cable-television pundit declared that Ann Romney, the stay-at-home, mother-of-five wife of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, had “never worked a day in her life.” Read full article > >

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Business Secretary Vince Cable says there is no question of the UK government imposing lower rates of pay on public sector workers in Wales.

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Lawmakers on Wednesday picked apart a controversial deal between Verizon Wireless and the largest cable companies, questioning whether it will impede competition and lead to fewer choices for Internet users. Read full article > >

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Lawmakers fear Verizon Wireless deal with cable firms will limit consumers’ choices

HBO has canceled its racetrack drama “Luck” after a third horse died during production of the show. “It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series ‘Luck,’ ” the premium cable network said in a statement late Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Vince Cable says he would like to see Royal Bank of Scotland turned into a new bank for British businesses, a leaked letter shows.

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Cable calls for RBS to be split

Eurostar services between London and the continent suffer serious delays due to an overhead power cable fault, with many passengers stranded on trains.

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Power fault brings Eurostar chaos

Dior launched its own online magazine, Dior Mag , Wednesday, the latest move amid a trend of fashion houses attempting to advance their brands through interactive and social mediums. The online publication, which looks more like a marketing venture than a magazine in colloquial terms, may be an act by the couture house to resurrect nostalgia for the historically impeccable brand. Former director John Galliano’s anti-Semitic rant left residual wounds on the label, which floundered for a year to bury the negative associations and find a new, positive direction. Read full article > >

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