April 21 | Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:04am EDT
April 21 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The New York Times business pages on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
* Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising.
* Industry and safety advocates are sparring over whether enough is being done to prevent fatal accidents.
* In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing Co to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina.
* Plenty of people want to build a popular Web site and become the next Mark Zuckerberg. But some technology entrepreneurs have a more old-fashioned goal: they want to make something you can hold in your hand.
* Apple Inc faced questions on Wednesday about the security of its iPhone and iPad after a report that the devices regularly record their locations in a hidden file.
* A hospital said that patients benefited when cardiologists there switched to heart devices made by a company that paid it consulting fees.
* Wells Fargo & Company posted a 48 percent increase in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, but investors were not impressed by the results, given fears that sluggish mortgage loan growth would erode the bank's earnings power.
* Apple's winning streak extended through another quarter as a new partnership with Verizon for the iPhone - along with updated products like the iPad and MacBook - sent consumers on a shopping spree, the company reported Wednesday.
* The price of gold rose above $1,500 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, pushed higher by investor concerns about global inflation, government debt and turmoil in the Arab world.
* AT&T , the nation's largest telecommunications company, reported a 39 percent increase in its first-quarter profit on Wednesday, despite losing the exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in the United States midway through the period.
* In the largest unionization vote involving federal employees, the nation's airport screeners voted in favor of unionizing, but federal officials said on Wednesday that there would be a runoff because neither union on the ballot received a majority of the votes cast.
* It's not quite the stuff of bragging rights, but Arkansas and Mississippi find themselves at the top of a new state ranking: They have the highest concentrations of people in the nation who have abandoned landlines in favor of cellular phones.
* In the end, prosecutors said, the most powerful evidence of Raj Rajaratnam's guilt during his insider trading trial was his own voice.
* Spain and Portugal on Wednesday managed to raise the targeted amounts in their latest debt auctions, an important test of market confidence amid Lisbon's negotiations for a financial bailout and Madrid's attempts to avoid needing one. ((Compiled by Mary Meyase; Bangalore Equities Newsdesk +91 80 4135 5800; within U.S. +1 646 223 8780)
April 21 | Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:04am EDT
April 21 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The New York Times business pages on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
* Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising.
* Industry and safety advocates are sparring over whether enough is being done to prevent fatal accidents.
* In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing Co to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina.
* Plenty of people want to build a popular Web site and become the next Mark Zuckerberg. But some technology entrepreneurs have a more old-fashioned goal: they want to make something you can hold in your hand.
* Apple Inc faced questions on Wednesday about the security of its iPhone and iPad after a report that the devices regularly record their locations in a hidden file.
* A hospital said that patients benefited when cardiologists there switched to heart devices made by a company that paid it consulting fees.
* Wells Fargo & Company posted a 48 percent increase in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, but investors were not impressed by the results, given fears that sluggish mortgage loan growth would erode the bank's earnings power.
* Apple's winning streak extended through another quarter as a new partnership with Verizon for the iPhone - along with updated products like the iPad and MacBook - sent consumers on a shopping spree, the company reported Wednesday.
* The price of gold rose above $1,500 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, pushed higher by investor concerns about global inflation, government debt and turmoil in the Arab world.
* AT&T , the nation's largest telecommunications company, reported a 39 percent increase in its first-quarter profit on Wednesday, despite losing the exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in the United States midway through the period.
* In the largest unionization vote involving federal employees, the nation's airport screeners voted in favor of unionizing, but federal officials said on Wednesday that there would be a runoff because neither union on the ballot received a majority of the votes cast.
* It's not quite the stuff of bragging rights, but Arkansas and Mississippi find themselves at the top of a new state ranking: They have the highest concentrations of people in the nation who have abandoned landlines in favor of cellular phones.
* In the end, prosecutors said, the most powerful evidence of Raj Rajaratnam's guilt during his insider trading trial was his own voice.
* Spain and Portugal on Wednesday managed to raise the targeted amounts in their latest debt auctions, an important test of market confidence amid Lisbon's negotiations for a financial bailout and Madrid's attempts to avoid needing one. ((Compiled by Mary Meyase; Bangalore Equities Newsdesk +91 80 4135 5800; within U.S. +1 646 223 8780)
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