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The band Tennis bats about a classic pop sound 09/23/2014 09:22pm • DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Besides terminal unhipness, the band Tennis has a practical reason to regret taking its name from an inside joke between founding couple Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley."It's hard to have a name that no one can Google," said Riley, who has his own MCPS Lunches Phone App, New Website 09/23/2014 12:40pm • The days of checking the web or local TV news station for school snow day closures are long gone. Montgomery County Public Schools on Monday launched a new website and mobile app that will send push notifications to a user’s phone or tablet about emergency closures, delays and other important Stanford says it never promised to use Google money for privacy research 09/23/2014 11:42am • UPDATE- 9/26/2014, 6:30 a.m. ET A Stanford official said on Wednesday that its Center for Internet and Society has never promised not to use Google money for privacy research. The university's legal filing should not be read to imply a prohibition on Google money being spent on privacy research 10 Online Business Programs Where Out-of-State Students Pay the Least 09/23/2014 12:00am • Online B-Schools Where Tuition is CheapMany online graduate business programs charge just as much -- if not more -- than their on-campus counterparts. But prospective students can get a cost-effective online degree if they are willing to do a little comparison shopping.Here are the 10 online graduat 6 ways to hunt for headhunters 09/23/2014 12:00am • In many areas, the U.S. economy is heating up. While long-term unemployment remains persistently high, in many labor markets, employers are finding it increasingly difficult to find talented people for key hard-to-fill roles. For example, the Boston Business Journal recently reported that the r Yahoo rakes in another jackpot from Alibaba's IPO 09/22/2014 09:34am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in Alibaba Group that has turned into a multibillion-dollar boon.The latest windfall came with Alibaba's record-setting IPO completed late Thursday, in w Cooking Oils, Overcooked 09/22/2014 12:00am • I tend to encounter a lot of opinions about nutrition; it's something of an occupational hazard. Some are inquisitive, some assertive. Some are respectful, some are ... otherwise. Lately, I have been fielding a barrage about cooking oils somewhat preferentially, and canola oil in particular. Quite As Wall Street watches Alibaba, stocks drift 09/21/2014 03:54am • MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- With Wall Street focused on the debut of Alibaba Group, the stock market drifted into the weekend and major indexes ended little changed.Investors watched as the Chinese e-commerce giant surged 38 percent Friday, in its first day of trading on the Ne Apple locks itself out of devices with passwords 09/20/2014 02:00am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple has tightened its technological security so not even the company can pry into a password-protected iPhone or iPad, a move meant to reassure the millions of people who are increasingly storing vital pieces of their lives on the devices. Ex-diner manager gets 8 years for murder plot 09/19/2014 08:30pm • DAVID PORTER Associated Press The former manager of a popular northern New Jersey diner was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill his uncle, a co-owner of the restaurant, in an attempt to gain greater control for himself.Georgios Spyropoulos pleaded guilty in News Corp opposes Google in EU antitrust case 09/18/2014 09:50pm • BRUSSELS (AP) -- The media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch is joining the fray in Google's protracted European antitrust case, saying the technology company unfairly distorts competition.Robert Thomson, CEO of New York-based News Corp., says in a letter to the EU's antitrust authority that Alibaba post-IPO structure gives insiders control 09/18/2014 10:52am • JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) -- Control over Alibaba Group will stay in the hands of founder Jack Ma and other company veterans after the Chinese e-commerce giant goes public on the New York Stock Exchange in a record busting share sale.A group of 27 managers dubbed the "Alibaba Part Record high Wednesday ... World stocks mostly higher today ... US to train veterans to install solar panels 09/18/2014 07:40am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock investors are getting the reassurance they want from the Federal Reserve. The Fed has signaled that it'll keep interest rates near zero for a while. As a result, investors pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a record high yesterday. The Dow rose nearly 25 points to clos Companies in Europe pledge 100K new youth jobs 09/18/2014 07:00am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) -- Some 200 companies on Thursday pledged to create new work and training opportunities for Europe's young jobseekers, of which one out of four is unemployed.The alliance of major companies set a goal of creating tens of thousands in additional N. Korean reporters using fax to file stories 09/18/2014 04:10am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean officials say North Korean reporters are using fax and American email services to file stories from the Asian Games in Incheon because the northerners' websites are blocked in the South.An official from Seoul's Unification Ministry said Thursday that the North