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Consumer group questions online medical device ads - 
A consumer watchdog group on Wednesday questioned the legality of several advertisements for medical devices that appear on YouTube and called on regulators to crack down on the promotions.
- Found: 3 hours ago

Management group wins auction to buy Neuberger - 
A group of managers and employees has won an auction to buy Lehman Brothers Holdings' prized investment management unit, which includes the Neuberger Berman money management business.
- Found: 3 hours ago

Group finds fewer toys with high lead levels - 
After the high-profile recalls of millions of lead-contaminated toys last year, a watchdog group said Wednesday that its tests found fewer toys with high levels of chemicals in them this year. But about a third of the toys tested still contained a worrisome level of chemicals.
- Found: 5 hours ago

Microsoft-led Group Launches New Open XML-interop Tools - 
A group of vendors led by Microsoft and aimed at fostering interoperability between different document formats has unveiled several tools to help people translate among documents created in Open XML and documents that use other file formats.
- Found: 4 hours ago

Ghost tour spooked after car plows into group - 
Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston's famous Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.
- Found: 4 hours ago

Group says estate tax affects few, should be kept - 
Fewer than 1 percent of deaths result in estate tax liabilities, and President-elect Barack Obama's proposal to keep the tax alive after it is slated to expire in 2010 is too generous to the wealthy, a tax policy advocacy group said Wednesday.
- Found: 5 hours ago

One in 3 toys is toxic, group says - 
One in three toys tested was found to contain toxic chemicals such as lead, flame retardants and arsenic, according to a report issued Wednesday by an environmental group.
- Found: 7 hours ago

Abbott to add safety information in YouTube ads after group complains - 
North Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories said it will embed safety information about its Xience heart device into a YouTube video spot, a disclosure made hours after a consumer group complained the spots ran afoul of U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules on product marketing.
- Found: 1 hour ago

Jefferies Group to cut work force by 13 percent - 
Investment bank Jefferies Group Inc. on Wednesday said it will lay off 315 workers, or about 13 percent of its work force, by the end of the year, and close three foreign offices to reduce operating expenses.
- Found: 3 hours ago

Group finds fewer toys with high lead levels - 
After the high-profile recalls of millions of lead-contaminated toys last year, a watchdog group said Wednesday that its tests found fewer toys with high levels of chemicals in them this year.
- Found: 5 hours ago