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WASHINGTON — Employers added twice as many new jobs to their ranks than expected in October, an encouraging sign that the nation's employment climate is not cracking under the stress of a deepening housing slump. Read more…

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFFFriday, November 02, 2007 Two Austin companies filed for initial stock offerings today, seeking to raise a total of $415 million in the two biggest local IPOs in years. Capstar Acquisition Corp. Read more…

North Las Vegas is the fastest growing competitive marketplace in the country. Adam Lee Commercial Real Estate helps clients and customers make deliberate, sound business moves. Read more…

The latest report from Barclays Financial Planning reveals that nearly a fifth of employees do not pay in to their pension, but almost a third of employers contribute over 6 per cent of salary Read more…

At ManagerCrossing.com, viewers can not only peruse the thousands of manger jobs posted on our dynamic job-board site, but they can also keep up-to-date on the latest trends and news in both management and the job market in general. Read more…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Internet social networking leader MySpace is joining Google Inc.'s platform for sharing applications across the Web — a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc. Read more…

Maybe those "Mac vs. PC" commercials are on to something: Did you know that Windows users are 20 percent more likely to want to read about religion than Mac users? Or that people who use Windows are 11 percent less likely to be Pittsburgh Steelers fans? Read more…

DETROIT — Despite California wildfires and continuing problems in the housing market, General Motors and its Asian rivals posted U.S. sales increases in October, and Toyota continued its drive to replace Ford as the No. 2 U.S. automaker, according to sales results released Thursday. Read more…

NEW YORK — Wall Street plunged Thursday, pulling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 360 points as investors found themselves confronted by two uncomfortable prospects: an end to interest rate cuts and a slowing economy. Read more…

Friday, November 02, 2007 BUSINESS DIGEST COMPUTERS Dell gets back in compliance with Nasdaq rules after filing Dell Inc. announced Thursday it is back in compliance with Nasdaq stock market rules after filing its delinquent financial reports Tuesday. Read more…

The executives are a study in contrasts. One is a brash risk-taker who bootstrapped his way from an Alabama cotton farm to one of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms. Read more…

Friday, November 02, 2007 CENTRAL TEXAS DIGEST Development Simmons Vedder tapped to build more apartments at Mueller site Simmons Vedder & Co. has been selected to build the second mixed-use multifamily component at the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Read more…

AUSTIN AMERICAN STAFFFriday, November 02, 2007 Jones coming to promote NFL Network The two-year fight between Time Warner Cable and the NFL Network is coming to Austin today. Read more…

NEW YORK — When Josh "The Matrix" Weintraub of Bear Stearns Cos. stepped into the boxing ring Thursday, he had 130 supporters in his corner as he fought Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Shane "Second Coming" Kinahan in a charity match. Read more…

The commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that the agency would be exerting a tighter grip over online advertising. Read more…

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