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Honda Motor Co said it would recall another 440,000 cars around the world for faulty airbags as rival Toyota Motor Corp faced further probes over its largest-ever safety crisis ...

Coca-Cola reported fourth-quarter earnings in line with estimates as international unit case volumes soared.

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 2/8/10. The hospitality, business services, retail, defense, health care, telecommunications, and banking verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards.

Source: http://reCareered.blogspot.com

As I wrote earlier, Google has decided to make Gmail more social. On Tuesday, they announced the new Gmail feature, and it's bound to get a lot of industry buzz. In fact, it's call Google Buzz, though many are linking it with Gmail only and calling it Gmail Buzz.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS - The Obama Administration’s proposal to funnel $30 billion in TARP receipts to community banks to spur lending to small businesses could do more to help the economy if it focused on the U.S. Small Business Administration lending programs themselves, says Christopher G. Hurn, chief executive officer of Mercantile Capital Corporation in Altamonte Springs.

Toyota has announced a worldwide recall of 437,000 hybrids, including the popular 2010 Toyota Prius over brake issues. The company announced that the fix will come via a software "patch" for the antilock braking system.

One of the touted features of iPhone OS 3.0 was the ability to interface with external hardware, and one company has used that to fill a gap in the iPhone's feature set. The company, zoomMediaPlus, has announced zoomIt, an adapter that allows iPhones to read SD cards (and with adapters, mini and micro SD cards).

Google, which learned the hard way that web-based support may be fine for non-premium web services, but not for unlocked cell phones purchased for over $500, is now offering phone support for the Nexus One.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it is recalling some 50,000 Prius cars in Europe to modify the software for the anti-lock brake system, part of a wider global recall and the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.

Feb. 9 -- Bloomberg's Jason Bellini reports on Reva Electric Car Co.'s plans to manufacture electric vehicles.

Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc.

DUBAI , United Arab Emirates - The Burj Khalifa 's owner said Monday the observation deck of the world's tallest tower has been unexpectedly shut down, potentially disappointing thousands of tourists and marring the spire's image just a month after it opened.

German business software maker SAP AG late Sunday said Chief Executive Leo Apotheker resigned with immediate effect.

Jason Alba of JibberJobber.com quoted stats generated by JobBait (a resume mass mailing company) claiming (tongue-in-cheek) that “Networking Doesn’t Work”. Of course networking doesn’t work if a job seeker under utilizes networking opportunities.

See some examples of what works and networking FAILs ...

Source: http://recareered.blogspot.com

In a research note to clients, Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope notes that Apple has plans to cut the price of the iPad if sales disappoint. The information was gleaned from a discussion with Apple executives. They were CFO Peter Oppenheimer, VP Eddy Cue, and SVP Ron Johnson.

As expected, Google aired a Super Bowl ad on Sunday. That was one huge expense, but at least they didn't specifically pay for the ad itself to be produced.

But here’s the problem: the majority of the images uploaded to Imgur are stolen from elsewhere. There is zero policing and all uploads are anonymous, which means that great pictures from across the web are scraped and uploaded as ‘genuine’ content all the time.

Greek officials put the final touches Monday on an overhaul of the country's ineffective tax system - part of their urgent effort to fix a debt crisis that has shaken the entire eurozone.

Feb. 8 -- JB Hi-Fi Ltd. Chairman Patrick Elliott talks with Bloomberg's Susan Li about the company's performance and growth strategy.

In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, former Merrill Lynch executive John Thain speaks during a news conference in New York.