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Reuters
WASHINGTON, Feb 4  – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a Senate panel on Thursday he supports proposals to improve transparency for the Federal Reserve.
“But respectfully not to threaten the independence of it and not to limit the Fed’s capacity to do the essential thing in future crises,” the secretary told the Senate Budget Committee.
Lawmakers [...]

Editor & Publisher
By Jennifer Saba
NEW YORK The months of speculation that Yahoo was trying to offload its career site HotJobs has ended. Its rival Monster Worldwide has agreed to acquire HotJobs in a $225 million cash deal, the company announced this afternoon.
The terms also include a three-year commercial traffic agreement in which Monster will [...]

Telegraph UK
By James Quinn
Published: 11:31PM GMT 02 Feb 2010
Unveiling a $284m (£178m) post-tax profit for the three months to December, Mr Murdoch proclaimed “content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.”
Promising to announce major developments “in the next two months,” the owner of the Sun and Wall Street Journal said [...]

By Ed O’Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 1, 2010; A15
The Obama administration’s economic stimulus program created nearly 600,000 jobs in the final three months of 2009, a figure in line with the administration’s goals for job creation through the end of 2010, the White House reported Saturday night.
The new total was down from the totals [...]