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For the record, week ended 5.11.07.(Microsoft takes stake in CareerBuilder.com)(Bank of America's acquisition of LaSalle Bank)(casino revenues highest in Illinois and Indiana)
Crain's Chicago Business, May, 2007
Microsoft will take a 4% stake in Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com, CEO Matt Ferguson said, in a partnership he hopes will drive its overseas traffic. The online help-wanted site is co-owned by Tribune and two other newspaper companies. The Dutch Supreme Court will rule in three to four months on ABN Amro's appeal against a lower court decision to freeze the Dutch bank's sale of U.S.
subsidiary LaSalle Bank to Bank of America. The sale, part of an $88-billion deal for Britain's Barclays bank to buy ABN, is opposed by a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland, which wants to buy both LaSalle and ABN. Not a single lawmaker in the Illinois House voted for Gov. Blagojevich's proposed $7.6-billion gross-receipts tax. House Speaker Michael Madigan for the first...
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