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Women led eight of Washington’s 50 most politically active trade lobby groups and earned about $600,000 less than their male counterparts, according to salary data compiled by Bloomberg.
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President Barack Obama named Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist and former leader of cable and wireless trade groups, to head the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, where he may focus on nurturing mobile technology.
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Steve Largent, the Hall of Fame receiver and former congressman, said it isn’t the government’s place to get involved in the issue of repeated traumatic head impacts and their possible link to long-term brain injuries for National Football League players.
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The following is a selection of the most important news affecting the oil market.
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Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social networking site, agreed to settle complaints by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to protect users’ privacy or disclose how their data could be used.
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Mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers may carry new ratings for violence and sexual content under a wireless industry-sponsored system awaiting backing from Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
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A famous 1973 cover of National Lampoon showed a dog with a revolver held to its head, with the caption, “If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog.”
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board describes mobile-phone use in cars as a public- health epidemic on the scale of smoking or drunk driving. Analysts said it may be too ingrained to stop.
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Mobile carriers led by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. agreed to disable smartphones that are reported stolen to help stem an increase in device thefts.
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U.S. drivers couldn’t send text messages or use mobile phones -- even with headsets or portable speakers -- under a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recommendation aimed at preventing distracted-driving crashes.
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