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When Whirlpool Corp closes its refrigerator factory in Fort Smith, Arkansas next year, the plant's 974 workers will lose their jobs. They will not be the only ones who will feel the pain.

Steve Jobs, the inventor and visionary behind Apple, Pixar and NeXT, repeated one phrase three times before his death: Oh wow. What did he mean?

When Whirlpool Corp closes its refrigerator factory in Fort Smith, Arkansas next year, the plant's 974 workers will lose their jobs. They will not be the only ones who will feel the pain.

The American Jobs Act has picked up more than 90 endorsements in the House of Representatives in the past week.

Steve Job's last words were, according to his sister Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. What have other celebrities, politicians and businesspeople used their final breaths to say?

Global unemployment now already exceeds 200 million, the highest level ever reported.

Late Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson has shared the final words of her genius brother in the eulogy she delivered at his Oct. 16 memorial service at Stanford University. The surprising last words that Jobs uttered from his deathbed were, Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.

Swiss bank Credit Suisse will announce the loss of another 1,000 jobs when it presents third-quarter results on Tuesday, a Swiss newspaper reported without revealing its sources.

In a compassionate eulogy for her brother, at one point who was long lost, Mona Simpson revealed the final words of Steve Jobs and painted a picture of the night he died.

It’s convenient to think that the economic and social problems in the United States that Occupy Wall Street has given voice to will go away by passing a flat tax, cutting taxes again on upper-income groups, or perhaps by just ignoring everything. But the economic and social problems are there, Occupy Wall Street or not.

Hewlett-Packard is set to keep its PC division which it had put up for sale, but it may shut down its webOS division, which was obtained for $1.2 billion in April 2010 when the company bought Palm. As webOS goes, 500 jobs are on the chopping block as well.

A genius for mixing the humanities and sciences coupled with a Svengali-like ability to motivate people powered Steve Jobs's mission to change the world, biographer Walter Isaacson concludes in his exhaustive new study of the Apple co-founder.

The world's two top appliance makers are planning large rounds of cost-cutting, including thousands of job cuts, as recession-weary shoppers have held off on buying refrigerators, washing machines and other costly items.

Whirlpool Corp, the world's largest maker of household appliances, will cut production and axe about a tenth of its workforce in North America and Europe, as demand softens for big-ticket items like washing machines and fridges.

Whirlpool Corp., the world's largest maker of household appliances, will cut production and axe about a tenth of its workforce in North America and Europe, as demand softens for big-ticket items like washing machines and fridges.

The Federal Communications Commission aproved a $4.5 billion subsidy to extend high-speed internet to 18 million Americans.

A new biography, commissioned by Jobs himself, was just released and contains a frank portrayal of the prolific Apple CEO.

Apple's founder liked to feel special, and he devised a way to avoid attaching California plates to his Mercedes.

Whirlpool Corp , the world's largest maker of household appliances, is responding to recessionary demand in major developed markets by cutting jobs and manufacturing capacity, following a similar move by rival AB Electrolux .

The details of Steve Jobs' LSD experiences may forever be a mystery.

Berlusconi’s promises have largely been met with derision, skepticism and scorn in Italy.