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Harris: Google's Eric Schmidt on North Korea and technology's future
Google's glasses may one day whisper in your ear an old acquaintance's name when you unexpectedly bump into them at a party. Google's car will drive itself in years — not decades. And what if Google's search engine could predict a question you...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, China, Google Inc., Beijing (China), U.S. Department of State
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JPMorgan board members targeted by shareholder advisers
JPMorgan Chase, one of the nation's largest banks, survived the financial crisis better than most — only to have the $6 billion "London Whale" trading loss last year expose embarrassing flaws in its accounting and risk controls. Influential...
Tags: Accounting and Auditing, White House, Sara Lee Corporation, Politics, Rockefeller Center
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3 Chicago companies in TechStars Chicago's inaugural class
TechStars Chicago, formerly Excelerate Labs, will announce Thursday its first class of 10 startups under its new brand, which will include the Chicago-based companies: Project Fixup, SimpleRelevance and SocialCrunch. More than 900 startups applied to be...
Tags: Golf, Taxation, Politics, Northern Trust Corporation, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Academic Progress, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Awards and Prizes, Charter Schools, Harvard University
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Harris: Project gets off to 'beautiful' start
The stickers are simple and, well, beautiful. Printed on reflective silver, they're cut in the size and shape of a nametag and say "you are beautiful" in bold, black print. They're the "all-encompassing" artistic statement of Chicago graphic...
Tags: Corn Products International Incorporated, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Auction Service, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Adler Planetarium
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Loyola University Chicago, Services and Shopping, Roosevelt University, Northwestern University
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Tom Pritzker woos big names for U. of C.'s big data
University of Chicago computer scientist Ian Foster pressed the clicker and up popped a map of the most sophisticated fiber-optic networks in the world. On that map, at least, Chicago appeared to be the center of everything, a crossroads of...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Federal Reserve, NATO, Crate & Barrel, Chicago Mayor
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Gambling bill would allow PokerStars, Full Tilt to apply for an online gaming license
A gambling expansion bill is back, but it now includes a provision that would allow PokerStars, once accused by federal prosecutors of money laundering and fraud, to compete for an online gaming license in Illinois. In the first draft of Senate Bill...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Prosecution, Northwestern University, Casino and Gambling Industry, Terry Mazany
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Groupon co-founder Keywell taping radio pilots
Serial entrepreneur and Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell has begun taping pilots for a new 30-minute radio program he would host on WBEZ-FM 91.5, a public radio station. "It would be a Saturday morning show," said Jessica Malkin, executive director of...Tags: Values, Groupon, Inc., Charlie Rose, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Boosters want to turn Pullman into national park
A group of Chicago residents and preservationists are working to win federal approval to turn the entire Pullman neighborhood on Chicago's Far South Side into a national park. If approved by Congress or proclaimed a national monument by the president,...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Transportation, Gardens and Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Politics
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Chicago Community Trust encourages nonprofits to merge, form partnerships
Chicago's largest donor to local charities also is helping some go out of business. During the past five years, the Chicago Community Trust has assisted more than 100 nonprofit organizations with costs associated with a closing, merger or...
Tags: Hull House, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Cerebral Palsy, Terry Mazany
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Henry Paulson turns career adviser at U. of C.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson worked as a career coach Friday for University of Chicago MBA students. He started with the rather unhelpful, yet charming, anecdote about setting off for Dartmouth College and...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Archer Daniels Midland Incorporated, Dartmouth College, Henry Paulson, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company
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