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<title><![CDATA[Where the U.S. Solar Industry Is Shining]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. companies that lease panels to homeowners thrive]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Archive: The New Solar Middlemen]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Easing the U.S. Visa Hassle for Tourists Who Shop]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Retailers have successfully lobbied to get travel rules relaxed for the Chinese and Brazilians]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Visa Policy May Hurt Luxury Retailers]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[DIY Apps Save Small Businesses Time, Money]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A study estimates that small companies have cut 725.3 million annual employee hours by using mobile apps, equaling $17.6 billion in savings]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Turning Girls into Tech Entrepreneurs with a Single App]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Technovation Challenge is a contest for high school students run by Iridescent, which uses online software called App Inventor]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Etsy's Funky Brooklyn Headquarters]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Etsy sells art, vintage items, jewelry, furniture, and clothes]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:54 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Evan Lowenstein's Stageit, a Live Music Site]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A one-hit wonder has become an online concert king]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After Hedge Funds, a Career Rejuvenation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A TSA inspection helped Julie Macklowe switch careers from hedge fund manager to entrepreneur, selling luxury, travel-friendly toiletry kits]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Rescue an Orphaned Brand]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Banking on nostalgia when reintroducing old products isn&rsquo;t enough. Entrepreneurs should be ready to update them and explain their newfound relevance]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed Says Business-Loan Demand Rose in 4th Quarter]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Demand for business loans increased in the fourth quarter as economic growth accelerated, according to a Federal Reserve survey of senior loan officers at banks. Seventeen of 56 banks reported stronger demand among companies with $50 million in annual sales or more, according to the survey, while six reported weaker demand. Loan demand among small businesses increased by the most in any quarter since 2005. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television's &quot;Bottom Line.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One-Percenters Want to Buy the Corner Bakery]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:11:33 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2015 May Be `Tipping Point' for Electric Cars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Idan Ofer, chairman of Better Place, a U.S. startup developing charging stations for electric vehicles, discussess the outlook for the electric car market]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bernanke to Give Lecture Series at George Washington University]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Roundtable on U.S. Immigration, Technology Jobs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship, Rick Marini, chief executive officer of BranchOut Inc., and Bloomberg's Cory Johnson talk about President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, immigration and the need to fill technology jobs in the U.S., and the outlook for the manufacturing industry. They speak with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's &quot;Bloomberg West.&quot; (Source: Bloomberg)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amid Regulations Debate, White House Seeks Cuts]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration claims it can save businesses $10 billion over five years. Businesses and Republicans give the White House review an &quot;incomplete&quot;]]></description>
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