- The new US $100 bill finally reaches banks starting today, with redesigned anti-counterfeit features and a larger picture of Benjamin Franklin, after a more than two-year delay.
- The American co-winners of this years Nobel Prize in Medicine warn that federal cuts to science and research are jeopardizing the country's place as a leader in biotechnology.
- The White House says it's open to a short-term debt ceiling raise in order to avoid a default, but Republicans continue to insist deep cuts to Obamacare and social spending must come first.
- French telecom manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent says it will need to cut 10,000 jobs across its global workforce in order to turn around losses.
- Korean chipmaker LG is ramping up production of its AMOLED flexible display screens that could end up in smartphones in 2014.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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