E-Bay has agreed to pay more than 2.6 billion dollars to purchase Internet phone provider Skype. The Internet auction giant is hoping that Skype will boost its auction service by making it easier for users to communicate. NPR's Larry Abramson reports

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In today's business news, we look at the end of an era at Walt/ Disney. Today is Michael Eisner 's last day as chief executive of the Walt Disney company. NPR's Kim Masters has this report: Eisner held the top job at Disney for 21 years , that's a g

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in a few minutes, getting back to business in New Orleans, but first to international business. A Chinese bid to buy the US oil company Unocal earlier this year caused quite a stir. Some people questioned the wisdom of letting foreigners control an A

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Somewhere on the right frontier between science and sleep and a hunk of cheddar cheese, we found our next guest. My name is Nigel White, I'm Secretary of the British Cheese Board. The misperception has being that eating cheese before you go to bed gi

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Back in the 1980s and 90s, the city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a scene of civil war, between the Catholic Croates on the west side of town and the Muslim Bosniacs on the east side. The two groups coexist today, but as you could imagine it's

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Korea has strong Buddhist and Shamanist roots. For many centuries, it was known as the hermit kingdom because of its resistance to outside influences. But in the last 50 years, Christianity has taken hold in South Korea. The number of Christians has

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From NPR news, this is all things considered. I am Robert Siegel, and I am Melissa Block. We are going to begin today with news about GOOGLE. The search engine company has launched a new instant messaging and voice communication service. Until now AO

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This is All Things Considered. I'm Michelle Norris. Phone calls from Sweden woke up two American scientists this morning, John Hall and Roy Glauber. They will share the Nobel Prize for Physics with a German Researcher Theodor Haensch. All three worke

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And it's time again for StoryCorps, we've been hearing from this oral history project as it crisscrosses the country. In New York city, it's gathering interviews with families and friends who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center. StoryCorps want

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By Kent Klein Washington 22 September 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama is urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to do more to re-start peace talks. Mr. Obama spoke Tuesday before his first three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neta

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By Jim Randle Pittsburgh 25 September 2009 The leaders of the world's wealthiest nations and key emerging economies are in Pittsburgh, assessing efforts to fight the recession, and seeking ways to prevent future financial problems. A key U.S. offici

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