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January 17, 2003
Today’s headlinesTaxpayers can file returns for free online
Companies including H&R Block and Intuit are working with the IRS to offer electronic preparation and filing.
Floridians patent separable pants, air-conditioned shoes
Can't decide which pair of pants to wear? Why not split the difference?
The King holiday still is not for every worker
The birthday of the slain civil rights leader remains freighted with political and economic calculations.
Microsoft to offer its first dividend
Bill Gates, as owner of 1.2-billion shares after a stock split, will receive $99.5-million from his holdings.
Consumers get deal on goods, pay more for services
WASHINGTON -- Consumer prices barely budged in December and closed out a year in which costs other than energy rose by the smallest amount since 1964.
AOL Time Warner picks chief to also be chairman
NEW YORK -- AOL Time Warner Inc. chief executive Dick Parsons was tapped Thursday to be the media conglomerate's new chairman, giving him broadened authority as he tries to turn the company around.
Business Today
HILLSBOROUGH HOTEL TAX RECEIPTS RISE: Quarterly hotel bed tax receipts in Hillsborough County in late 2002 increased for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau reported. Receipts from the 5 percent tax were $3.34-million for September through November, up 11.3 percent from the same period in 2001.
Latest business news
Monday's Metal Prices
Skilling, Lay optimistic as testimony ends
Wachovia shares fall on Golden West deal
GAO: Sarbanes-Oxley costs high for cos.
London's FTSE-100 index closes down 24.6
Calif. attorney general files fourth suit
Rigas sentencings reset for April
Plaintiffs in insurance fraud lawsuit
Health insurance plans claim vast fraud
Deere reports 4Q loss on charges, lower sales
Tiffany raises outlook as 3Q profit comes in ahead
LSE first-half net profit drops 40 percent
Top 2 booksellers report losses, their shares fall
Blue Coat posts profit as sales rise slightly
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