Mommy, that’s not Dora: Time Warner Cable says glitch put adult video on kids channels in NC

Glitch leads to adult video on kids channels in NC

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Panel created by Gov. Perdue recommends changes to procurement, IT in NC state government

Purchasing, IT changes suggested by NC panel

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Dell returns $1.5 million in incentives to North Carolina as company prepares to close plant

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Dell sheds NC desktop manufacturing plant despite groundbreaking incentive offers

Changing focus leads Dell to close NC plant

RALEIGH, N.C. — A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new corporate calculations and changing customer tastes.

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Red Hat posts higher 2nd-quarter profit, sales; shares jump after hours

Red Hat posts higher 2Q profit, sales

RALEIGH, N.C. — Red Hat Inc., the software distributor behind the Linux operating system, said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit grew as companies opted for its source products amid the economic downturn.

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Apple coaxed to NC area hurting from manufacturing layoffs as site for East Coast data center

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina community battered by manufacturing layoffs raised the offer for Apple Inc. to open its East Coast data center just 30 miles down the road from a similar Google Inc. server farm that opened last year. Catawba County and the town of Maiden agreed Monday to a package of local incentives aimed at luring Apple and cutting into the 15 percent unemployment rate. The state last month changed its tax calculations to land Apple's $1 billion data center, giving the company a tax break estimated at $46 million in the next decade.

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