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Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"

bloomberg.com | Amy Thomson and Katie Merx | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

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No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry. Believe it or not, the newly appointed ch...

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GM Means get Moving

Charlie Cray | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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Everyone wants a viable auto industry with GM returning to its status as a world-class automaker. But the Obama team's GM plan doesn't embrace public standards on energy and the environment.

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Edward Whitacre Jr.: New GM Chairman Is Former AT&T CEO

Yahoo! Finance | Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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UPDATE: Edward Whitacre was the son of a railroad engineer, who grew up trapping frogs and shooting rabbits, according to Business Week. DETROIT (A...

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Supreme Court Pulls Old Negotiating Tricks on Fiat

John Marshall | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Chrysler, Gm, Fiat, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chrysler News, Fiat News, Comedy News

The Supreme Court delayed the sale of most of Chrysler's assets to Fiat by telling the carmaker, "Wait a minute. I have to go in the back and talk to my boss," an old negotiating ploy that heretofore has not been used on the sale of a whole car company.

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Best Late Night Jokes Of The Week: Keith Olbermann, Wal-Mart, Hunger Strikes And More! (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 07.07.2009 | Comedy

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Stephen Colbert addressed his impending broadcasts from the Middle East this week, saying he bought official Sheik-brand condoms for the trip. The con...

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Lemonheads' Evan Dando Sues GM For Stealing Song

AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Lemonheads founder Evan Dando (DAN'-doh) is suing General Motors, saying the auto giant copied one of his songs for an ad. Dando ...

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Left, Right & Center: Obama's MidEast Speech, Unemployment and GM, Now What?

Huff Radio | Posted 07.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Gm, Obama's Cairo Speech, GM Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Home News

This was an intense show -- very good and interesting -- first about the aspirational nature of Obama's Cairo speech, then a serious take on the still-tanking economy. Lots of steak, not just sizzle.

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Commerce Secretary Locke: Rail Can Revive Auto Industry

Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Linking up with rail makes perfect sense for a contracting industry, at a time when environmental and economic factors make expanding public transit a necessity.

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GM Saturn Sale: Roger Penske Will Buy Brand

AP | DAN STRUMPF and TOM KRISHER | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. has a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to auto racing magnate Roger Penske's dealership group, both compa...

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Fall In GM Ad Spending Will Hurt Media, Sports Teams

Los Angeles Times | Alana Samuels | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

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The bankruptcy of General Motors Corp., one of America's biggest advertisers, deals yet another blow to TV stations, newspapers and magazines that alr...

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GM Defends Decision To Retain In-House Lobbyists

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

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General Motors is defending its decision to retain an in-house team of lobbyists despite being majority-owned by the U.S. government. Earlier toda...

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GM, Chrysler Chiefs: Slashing Dealerships Was Necessary

AP | KEN THOMAS and TOM RAUM | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Partners no more, bankrupt automakers and small-town car dealers who are being stripped of their livelihood brought the anguish of ...

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Which GM Brands Will Last? (VOTE)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

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When General Motors filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, the century-old automaker announced that it would quickly cut a number of brands. The new ...

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Cheney: Bush Copped Out On GM Bankruptcy

Politico | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that former President George W. Bush did not want to be the one who "pulled the plug" on General Motors and ins...

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GM, Chrysler Bankruptcies: Auto Suppliers Suffer

nytimes.com | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

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For nine years, the Strong brothers, Mark and Tim, made tools in their machine shop to maintain the giant presses that stamped steel sheets into fende...

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The Death of GM: A Much Needed Wake-Up Call

Bobbie Wasserman | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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This is not a worker problem, it's a management problem. Autoworkers produce quality products. It was management that decided what those products would be.

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GM as Parable, and Israel's Sudden Choice: Obama or Kahane

Bradley Burston | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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In the end, the disgrace shown the Arabs does deep disgrace to the perpetrator, but, more importantly, does the deepest disgrace of all to the State of Israel.

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GM Grows Towns, Then Leaves

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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General Motors was once viewed as Miracle-Gro for small towns, taking places like Ontario, Ohio from a village of 700 people in 1956 to what is now a ...

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Hummer Sale: Buyer Said To Be Chinese Company

nytimes.com | KEITH BRADSHER and NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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GUANGZHOU, China -- General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup tru...

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What Does GM's Bankruptcy Mean for the Chevy Volt?

treehugger.com | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

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A couple of months ago, GM said that it would keep the Chevy Volt even if it lost money. Now, post Chapter 11, they're saying that the bankruptcy won'...

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Zipcar CEO Tells CNBC: No One Wants Chrysler, GM Products

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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Zipcar's experience reveals what has to be the biggest barrier to reviving these automakers: nobody wants to even borrow their cars for a few hours.

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GM Says It Has 16 Suitors For Saturn

CBS News | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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General Motors Corp. says it has 16 buyers interested in purchasing its Saturn brand, while three parties are interested in the Swedish Saab brand. ...

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Now That We Own GM: A Little of the Early Story

Kate Kelly | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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We all know the story of Henry Ford and his assembly line, but what is there to know about General Motors?

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GM's Hummer Sale: Tentative Deal Reached

AP | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. said Tuesday that it has tentatively agreed to sell its Hummer brand, a day after the U.S. automaker filed for b...

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How Much Of Coporate America Does The U.S. Own?

The Atlantic | Conor Clarke | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

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As you've probably heard by now, Obama is sending General Motors to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, as you've also probably heard, the United Sta...

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