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Inside Google's Secret Lab

By Brad Stone
businessweek.com — Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's ( GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite.
Erick Schonfeld Blogger @erickschonfeld
RT @Tyrangiel: Inside Google's secret lab. buswk.co/194pWz0
Nick Summers Staff Writer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @nicksumm
RT @Tyrangiel: Inside Google's secret lab. buswk.co/194pWz0
Josh Tyrangiel Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @Tyrangiel
Inside Google's secret lab. buswk.co/194pWz0
Tony Tassell Financial News Editor, Financial Times @TonyTassell
Long @bloomberg feature on Google's secretive research lab and its "moonshot" projects h/t @jyarow businessweek.com/articles/2013-…
Max Abelson Wall Street Reporter, Bloomberg News @maxabelson
This had me at a man named Astro Teller MT @Tyrangiel Hello there early @BW cover buswk.co/194pWz0
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Not Green, Just Soylent: Is This the Future of Food?

By John Tozzi
businessweek.com — Just before it was lunchtime on the West Coast on Tuesday, Rob Rhinehart went on Twitter to seek donations for something called Soylent. He describes it in the pitch video as "an efficient form of fuel for humanity for the first time in history."
Patrick Clark Reporter, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @pat_clark
"fuel for humanity" or fuel of humanity? @jtozz: Not green, just Soylent: Is this the future of food? businessweek.com/articles/2013-… via @BW
John Tozzi Reporter, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @jtozz
Not green, just Soylent: Is this the future of food? businessweek.com/articles/2013-… via @BW

Court Ruling Puts Cloud Over U.S. Consumer Agency as Work Slows

By Carter Dougherty
businessweek.com — A court ruling that cast doubt on the authority of its director has hampered the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, slowing some enforcement, impeding recruitment of a second-in-command and delaying joint ventures with the states, people briefed on the agency's work said.
Shahien Nasiripour Chief Financial and Regulatory Correspondent , Huffington Post @nasiripour
RT @ewstephe: Bloomberg says CFPB is working on contingency planning in case Cordray appointment is overturned: businessweek.com/news/2013-05-2…
Emily Stephenson Reporter, Reuters @ewstephe
Bloomberg says CFPB is working on contingency planning in case Cordray appointment is overturned: businessweek.com/news/2013-05-2…

Why Airbnb Should Book a Room in Albany

By Joshua Brustein
Janet Paskin Assistant Managing Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @JPaskin
RT @jimaley: "real problem here is the devil-may-care attitude companies like Airbnb take toward legal consequences " http://t.co/rYsTSZPW6…
Jim Aley Technology Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @jimaley
"real problem here is the devil-may-care attitude companies like Airbnb take toward legal consequences " buswk.co/14wWxuv via @BW

America’s Gift to Rival Economies? The Absurd H-1B Visa Cap

By Peter Coy
businessweek.com — The demand for H-1B visas to work in the U.S. is so high that last month, for the third time, the federal government announced it would use a lottery to distribute them. To economists, a lottery is evidence of a problem: Something is preventing supply and demand from coming into balance.
Victor Ramos Staff Writer, Diversity Issues, Newsday @vmramos
Employment visas. "@BW: America's absurd H1-B visa lottery is a gift to rival economies | buswk.co/10kOXTs"
Jim Aley Technology Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @jimaley
"The H-1B cap was set by a political process, not an economic one." And grateful rivals say, Thank You. buswk.co/182MTUo @BW

Have Credit Unions Become Stealth Banks?

By Brendan Greeley
businessweek.com — Troy Stang likes to explain things by referring to "Grampa's" credit union, founded to serve the parish of a Catholic church in Melrose, Minn., with checking accounts and farm loans. Stang, who worked for his grandfather as a teenager, is now president of the Northwest Credit Union Association, a
Sarah Cooke Editor-in-Chief, Credit Union Times @CookeonCUs
Have Credit Unions Become Stealth Banks? businessweek.com/articles/2013-… via @BW HECK NO!
Brendan Greeley Staff Writer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @bhgreeley
ow.ly/lhaO7 Credit unions, like banks, have been consolidating

Immigration Reform Brightens After Senate Vote

businessweek.com — Compared to April's gun vote and other recent Congressional showdowns, the vote on an immigration overhaul was an almost shockingly conciliatory affair. The bill passed its first big test, getting approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee with the support of 10 Democrats and three Republicans - and
Lizza Dwoskin Staff Writer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @lizzadwoskin
Prospects for immigration reform keep getting better: businessweek.com/articles/2013-…

Inside Google's Secret Lab

By Brad Stone
businessweek.com — Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's ( GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite.
Paul Kedrosky Business Blogger, Bloomberg News @pkedrosky
Inside Google's Secret Lab | Businessweek bit.ly/13LCcCa

Pritzker Understated Income in Disclosure, Files Updated Form

By Brian Wingfield
businessweek.com — Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker substantially understated a portion of her income in a disclosure form required as part of her nomination to be U.S. Commerce Secretary and has amended the document. Forms released online last night by the Office of Government Ethics show that Pritzker earned additional income for consulting work on hundreds of trusts, including family trusts, beyond what she disclosed last week.
Paul Merrion Washington Bureau Chief, Crain's Chicago Business @pmerrion
Pritzker Understated Income in Disclosure, Files Updated Form businessweek.com/news/2013-05-2… via @BW

Farmers Rush to Plant Ahead of Storms, Tweeting All the While

businessweek.com — Farmers planted at a breakneck pace last weekend to get seeds in the ground ahead of the storm system that brought severe weather and tornadoes on Sunday and Monday.
Keith Nunes Executive Editor, Food Business News Magazine @FoodBizNews
Farmers Rush to Plant Ahead of Storms, Tweeting All the While origin-www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-… via @BW

For a Bigger Chinese Box Office, Hollywood Hires Chinese Actors

By Claire Suddath
businessweek.com — Do you want to be cast in the next Transformers movie? All you have to do is win a reality show-in China. Paramount Pictures, in an effort to sell more tickets in China, will be casting more Chinese actors.
Scott Bixby Social Media Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @ScottBix
Hollywood’s wooing of China has begun with "Transformers 4 Chinese Actor Talent Search Reality Show" buswk.co/13LxzrO

Who Is Daniel Werfel, the New Head of the IRS?

By Karen Weise
businessweek.com — Today's the first day on the job for Daniel Werfel, the White House budget official tapped by President Obama to be acting commissioner of the IRS. Let's hope he got a good night's sleep.
Josh Tyrangiel Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @Tyrangiel
Danny Werfel is not Danny Wuerfel buswk.co/13IKEyK

Comcast, the Mets, and Other Winners in the New Man City-Yankees MLS Franchise

By Kyle Stock
businessweek.com — It's official: Manchester City - not Manchester United ( MANU) - is 'the Yankees' of the soccer world. The spendthrift English soccer club is teaming up with the Yankees to buy a Major League Soccer expansion team that will be called the New York City Football Club, according to an announcement late yesterday.
Kyle Stock Senior Correspondent, Bloomberg BusinessWeek @KyleStock
Why a Man City-backed MLS team in New York is good news for Comcast, the Mets, Red Bull and Jay-Z. buswk.co/10PYstw $EPL #MLS

James Passin, the American Who Bought Mongolia

businessweek.com — The Mongolian Stock Exchange occupies a single room inside a gray building that once housed a children's movie theater, just off Sükhbaatar Square in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. On any given day, it's quieter than the nearby National Library, as 20 or so traders in cubicles click away softly
Alan Ohnsman Transportation Reporter, Bloomberg News @alanohnsman
James Passin, the American Who Bought Mongolia buswk.co/16mMpZn via @BW

Bernanke Testifies to Joint Economic Committee (Text)

businessweek.com — The following is a reformatted version of the prepared testimony today of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Chairman Brady, Vice Chair Klobuchar, and other members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss the economic outlook and economic policy.
Stephanie Phang Economy Editor, Singapore, Bloomberg News @sphang
Bernanke Testifies to Joint Economic Committee (Text) - Businessweek goo.gl/fb/zsPWF #anz,#economy
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