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'Fiscal Cliff' bill signed into law via autopen Jan 3rd 2013, 12:02 KAILUA, Hawaii — The hard-fought legislation that allowed the United States to avoid the "fiscal cliff" was signed into law on Wednesday by autopen, the White House said, less than a day after being approved in a contentious vote in the House of Representatives. Read full article >> Lawmakers clash over federal debt ceiling Jan 3rd 2013, 02:36 Only hours after Congress adopted a bill to avert the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and spending cuts, lawmakers on Wednesday began to clash over the limit on federal borrowing, inaugurating the next phase of Washington's permanent fiscal war. Read full article >> Business leaders say 'cliff' deal won't ease economic uncertainty Jan 3rd 2013, 02:28 A day after Congress managed to avert the fiscal cliff, business leaders warned that the agreement will hurt sales and hiring, won't unlock investment and leaves the economy riddled with congressionally imposed land mines for months to come. Read full article >> Federal Trade Commission to end antitrust investigation of Google Jan 3rd 2013, 01:18 The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to end its antitrust investigation of Google ahead of looming changes to the membership of the agency's ruling board. The coming turnover has created renewed urgency about resolving the nearly two-year-old probe of Google, said people familiar with the talks, which are likely to conclude in the next few days. Read full article >> To thwart hackers, firms salting their servers with fake data Jan 3rd 2013, 00:08 Brown Printing Co., which prints popular magazines and catalogues, knew that it had valuable assets in its computer systems and that those assets — online editions and subscriber databases — were increasingly at risk with the proliferation of cyber-espionage. Read full article >>

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