Note that the subsidiary that developed the Kindle e-Reader, Lab 126, is based in Silicon Valley but Amazon did not collect sales tax in California until September 2012.

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Like ARPA-E, EERE is now cooperatively negotiating research milestones into its funding opportunities with its National Lab, industry, and University research partners so that its investments are geared toward technology outcomes (e.g. cheap solar panels, high performance vehicle batteries, etc.).

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Five of the NYSE's seven specialist firms are believed to be under scrutiny, including market leader LaBranche (nyse: LAB - news - people ), which is in a nasty fight to avoid turning over employee e-mail traffic to investigators.

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