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Hyundai Motor Co. broke into the U.S. market in 1986 with a $4,995 compact car, the Excel. Now the automaker wants customers to buy its models for their looks.

As the year comes to a close, Bloomberg's Jason Harper sizes up the vehicles he's driven in the past 12 months and chose Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG as Best Executive Sedan in his first ever Car of the Year Awards selection.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek announced today that it will cease publishing BusinessWeek SmallBiz and integrate the coverage into the Web site and magazine. The final issue of the bimonthly, controlled circulation publication is the December 2009/January 2010 issue.

Bloomberg L.P., the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals, has completed the acquisition of BusinessWeek from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

AT&T* today set an ambitious target and timeline of 100 percent broadband by 2014 in a filing before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Recognizing that broadband is a path to job creation, economic recovery and a way to achieve important societal goals, such as energy independence and better health care delivery, the formal process of developing a national broadband plan began today at the FCC.

Environmental and public health experts call for Americans to go "Meatless" on Mondays

Signals steepest drop in year-on-year sales in survey history, and expectations slump to new low

Heineken N.V. today announced that it has received unconditional approval from the Irish Competition Authority in relation to the acquisition of Beamish & Crawford by Heineken

Google to Bring New Advertising Clients to the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® Network

Enterprise solution delivers stock quotes, financial news, personalized market monitor and more.

Trulia Ad Network (TAN) brings together approximately 10 million home buyers, sellers and owners for real estate and other local advertisers

In an interview that airs this weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) program "Political Capital with Al Hunt," former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski threw his support behind Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.

Podbridge announced that it closed a new round of venture funding totaling $8.5 million. Proceeds will be used to accelerate the company's market expansion, scaling the business and making further inroads in monetizing all types of downloadable video and audio content.