In one of the largest and most high-profile share floatations of recent years, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, rang the opening bell of the Nasdaq exchange.
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VIDEO: Zuckerberg rings Nasdaq bell
Facebook shares will start trading later in one of the largest and most high profile share flotations of recent years.
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Facebook poised for market debut
Safeway is the latest corporate giant to publicly shun the use of tiny cages that immobilize pregnant sows which have been condemned by animal rights activists. The grocery giant joins some of the largest companies in the country with its vow to phase out the use of these cages, called sow gestation stalls, to keep pigs confined. “Gestation stalls have been criticized in recent years due to animal welfare concerns,” Safeway said in a statement announcing its plans “to have a gestation stall-free supply chain.” Read – Safeway shuns tiny pig cages Previously – Burger King goes cage-free
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Safeway to phase out gestation cages
More than 100 people have been charged and an estimated $450 million in false billings uncovered by federal agents in a nationwide operation that authorities say is the largest bust in recent history.
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100 charged in health care fraud bust
More than 200 cases of measles are confirmed on Merseyside in the largest outbreak in the area since 1988, the Health Protection Agency says.
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Measles outbreak tops 200 cases
The Defense Department, the largest employer of civilian federal workers, has issued a new policy requiring management to promote telework by their employees and to “make every effort to overcome artificial barriers” to off-site working. Read full article > >
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New DoD policy encourages telework
A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal – living or extinct.
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Dino is biggest feathered animal
Fossils of a previously unrecognized dinosaur found in China show that it is the largest known feathered animal, living or extinct, scientists report.
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Dinosaur Dig in China Turns Up Largest Known Feathered Animal
BP says it has reached a $7.8bn (£4.9bn) deal with the largest group of plaintiffs suing it over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BP reaches $7.8bn oil spill deal
A Texas doctor and five owners of home health agencies were arrested today on charges that they are part of a nearly $375 million fraudulent home health-care ring that authorities say is the largest such case ever against a single doctor. Read full article > >
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Feds allege largest-ever Medicare scam by single doctor
Today’s Florida primary features the largest and most diverse electorate of any contest to date in the Republican presidential primary fight. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney enters election day with a clear polling lead although former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledged this morning that “ I’m not going to lose big in Florida .” Read full article > >
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Five counties to watch in the Florida primary
The amount of non-mortgage borrowing held by consumers fell in December by the largest amount on record, £377m, the Bank of England says.
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Record fall in personal borrowing
The automaker’s earnings for 2011 were the largest in 13 years after a one-time gain in the fourth quarter.
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Ford Posts Third-Straight Annual Profit
A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.
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Dinosaur Dig in China Turns Up Largest Known Feathered Animal
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
