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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: EU pushes Google break-up

Marketplace Staff Nov 27, 2014
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: EU pushes Google break-up

Marketplace Staff Nov 27, 2014
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First off, the EU has voted overwhelmingly to break up Google and other search engines to prevent them from stacking results with their own services. We’ll talk about what the vote means and doesn’t mean. Then, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is meeting Thursday, and with oil prices at a four-year low the group is at a crossroads. Jamie Webster tells us about OPEC’s tough choice: cut production and sacrifice market share to raise prices, or stay the course and let prices keep falling. Finally, Tennessee is about to become the first state in the nation to pay for every student to go to community college for free. But the new program ends up pushing potential students toward federal grants they would have gotten anyway but not applied for. It’s marketing for higher ed disguised as an innovative state funding program.

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