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Friday, Oct 30, 2009 @06:19am CDT If you're keeping on top of the stock markets this morning...Friday, October 30, 2009.... The Nikkei rebounded 143 points today. The Dow added nearly 200 points Thursday. And the Nasdaq was up 37. The Cash for Clunkers program may have actually cost taxpayers $24,000 per car sold. That's according to Edmunds.com. But the White House disputes that. Edmunds.com CEO Jeremy Anwyl says most of the people who bought a car under the program would have, anyway. He says only about 125,000 cars were sold solely because of Cash for Clunkers program. When you consider the $2.8 billion cost of the program, he says that comes out to $24,000 for every "extra" car that was sold. In all, Americans bought nearly 690,000 cars during the Cash for Clunkers program. Google has its users listening to the music. The internet giant launched a new music search feature in the U.S. Users can type in an artist's name, an album or a song title and Google will bring up to four songs to the top of the results. Click a result and the song will play on pop-up players such as Myspace. Music fans can listen to the whole song once for free. Chrysler is offering a new service that will let passengers channel surf. The automaker will start offering TV service in their cars. The service will be called Flo-TV and will feature up to twenty channels. It will cost more than $600 for installation and a one year subscription. The TV system would be integrated into the vehicle's d-v-d system. |
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