Gates discloses 10 percent stake in AutoNation (INO News)
(AP:NEW YORK) Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has taken a 10 percent stake in car retailer AutoNation Inc., according to a regulatory filing Friday.
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Stocks reverse losses on hopes for car makers (NBC 12 Richmond)
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks have reversed steep morning losses to push higher Thursday after aides to a bipartisan group of senators say they have reached a compromise to funnel emergency loans to Detroit's car makers.
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Agassi's Electric Car Plan Gets Bay Area Jump-Start (E-Commerce Times)
In four years, driving a car in the San Francisco Bay area may involve a variation of the "plug and play" concept. Think "plug and drive," if the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and start-up Better Place have their way. The company, founded by former SAP executive and Wired magazine cover subject Shai Agassi, announced a private-public partnership Thursday with the three mayors and ...
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Erie Co. D.A. Will Not Investigate Golisano (R News)
The Erie County District Attorney will not launch an investigation into allegations Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano violated state election law in the operation of his political group Responsible New York.
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Teen wins 'Twilight' car on 'Tyra Banks Show' (East Valley Tribune)
NEW YORK - Sometimes it pays to have your heart broken.
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New York dad saves sons from submerged car, but not himself (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MANCHESTER, N.Y. - A man whose car slid off a snowy road and into a 12-foot-deep pond saved the two sons he had been driving home but could not save himself, police said.
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US close: Dow stages strong rally (ShareCast)
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Dow Jones staged a strong rally on reports that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate New York Federal Bank president Timothy Geithner as his new Treasury Secretary.
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Will Detroit's cash crisis kill the electric car? (Times of Malta)
Chevrolet Volt concept hybrid car is displayed at the New York International Auto Show in New York . Call it an economic and environmental murder mystery in the making: Will a cash-strapped Detroit kill the electric car - again?
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Sherburne adds hybrid car to its village fleet (The Post-Standard)
%%bodybegin%%The village of Sherburne has added a hybrid-electric 2008 Toyota Prius to its fleet through a partnership with the New York Power Authority.
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Charlie Kaufman, writer and director of 'Synecdoche, New York,’ talks about the movie and his style (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By CHRISTOPHER KELLY Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, the unnervingly strange Synecdoche, New York has opened to some of the most entertainingly divergent reviews of any movie in years. In The New York Times , Manohla Dargis effused that it’s "as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness." But the poison-penned Rex Reed, writing in The New York ...
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