The number of job openings grew in April, indicating a continued loosening of the job market after the worst downturn in decades. Employers had a seasonally-adjusted 3.1 million openings on the last business day of April, up about 300,000 from March and about 800,000 from last summer's trough.

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Incumbency used to be a reliable predictor of electoral success. Not this time around. The primaries, run-offs, and special elections held in 12 states on June 8 provided fresh evidence that this is going to be a raucous, rebellious political season.

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BP can't control its oil leak, and it's also having a rough time with image control. The company responsible for spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico is attracting more of the wrong kind of attention by purchasing several red-hot search terms – including "oil spill" – on Google, Bing and Yahoo's search engines.

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Terrance Odean, a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, has spent his career studying a very specific type of investor: the one who is overconfident, shortsighted and far more likely to snap up a stock at the worst possible moment than to make the kind of contrarian bet that pays off in the long run.

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America's bleak employment picture is showing some bright spots. According to a new jobs survey by employment services firm Manpower, some cities, like Buffalo, N.Y., and Virginia Beach, Va., are reporting that as many as 20% of employers plan to staff up this spring.

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Like many other college students, 19-year-old Ian Jennings Jablonowski treks to rock concerts and plays videogames. But the East Brunswick, N.J., native also designed his first website when he was 13. Now, he's part of a new project trying to reshape New York's job market.

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Do you know your Laduma from your Vuvuzela? Your Diski from your Makarapa? And why is everyone in Johannesburg screaming Bafana Bafana at me?

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Chancellor Angela Merkel touted as an "unprecedented feat" her plan to save €80 billion ($96 billion) from Germany's federal budget by 2014 when she unveiled it on June 7th after a two-day cabinet meeting. But the reviews were mixed.

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Long known for their desire to make loads of money, MBAs until recently haven't had much of a track record in solving the world's problems. If anything, they've been the targets of intense criticism over the past two years for their role in the global financial crisis.

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I noticed two advertisements recently that say a lot about the power of institutional branding in higher education. I also had two conversations that suggest how that power might someday fade.

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Early registration discounts for the 32nd NBMBAA Annual Conference & Exposition, September 21-25 in Los Angeles are available, but only until June 15. Register now to take advantage of big savings and lock in your place at the year's premier career and networking event.

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Just five minutes and a genius business idea can win you big. Up to six people will have five minutes each to sell their business idea to a mixed panel of venture capitalists, academic instructors and successful entrepreneurs – using only a whiteboard and marker. Sign up today!

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Just two weeks after Facebook launched a web-bending bevy of new social features at its April f8 conference, eight engineers and product managers from Thefind.com grouped around a long, pale wood table in an unadorned conference room in an office in a downtown Mountain View strip mall. In the first meeting, the word "creepy" was only mentioned once in two hours. In the second meeting, the word "creepy" defined the conversation.

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If you've got a smartphone that can run apps like the iPhone, BlackBerry or an Android phone, you've got a pocket computer – and when you're on the road, you want to load up on the apps that can help you get where you need to go and stay organized on the way. Here are some of the best mobile apps for business travelers.

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A great business idea is just the beginning. Jeffrey Bussgang likes crazy entrepreneurs. Twitter's Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and Sitrris Pharmaceuticals' Dr. Christoph Westphal all share what Bussgang, a partner with Boston-based Flybridge Capital Partners, calls paranoid optimism.

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I was just 23 when I decided to start a virtual-assistant company. I had an MBA and two years in the workforce. I didn't have a ton of experience, but it had been my long-time goal to be a business owner, and soon after I graduated from business school, I was ready start one.

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The trade deficit in the U.S. widened in April to the highest in more than a year as exports and imports both declined.

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The foreclosure crisis appears to be leveling off. The number of people facing foreclosure is nearly flat from a year ago, according to the latest report from a private foreclosure listing service.

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Hunkered down at home in Great Falls, Va., during the blizzard of 2010, Doug Colley and his wife, Christina, discovered a sparking surge protector that quickly set their bedroom on fire.

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As a result of the shaky economy, an increasing number of adults who were once independent are moving back home with their parents due to financial hardship. If you're wondering whether you'll soon be among them, take this quiz and find out.

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In response to a growing perception that filing a claim for compensation from BP is more trouble than it's worth, officials in Alabama announced a program Tuesday to help workers affected by the oil spill get the money they're entitled to.

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The much-hyped surge of African Americans petered out in the first round of primaries. But black GOPers aren't giving up.

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Blanche Lincoln's comeback win Tuesday night served up a rich slice of humble pie for a political class that had prematurely written her off.

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Leading from the middle is the hardest stage of any manager's career. Whisper it quietly, but top management is far easier and more rewarding than middle management. At the top you have more control over your destiny, and more resources at your disposal.

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To manage themselves, the employees of Tasty Catering studied the principles that author Jim Collins espoused in .

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Plastic bags may have become victims of their own success. Their very ubiquity – an estimated 90 billion plastic bags are used in the United States each year – has led to a small but growing number of jurisdictions discouraging their use through fees or outright bans.

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How many times have you been out with friends only to see a woman you and your girls deem "too much:" too thick, too busty or too bootylicious for their current outfit?

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