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House OKs Measure To End Tax Breaks For Oil, Gas Industry (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - The House voted late Thursday to revamp tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and use the expected $14 billion in additional revenue to invest in renewable energy.

Music industry's got the blues: Global sales fell 3% in 2006 (USA Today) - Worldwide online music sales nearly doubled in 2006 to about $2 billion, or 10% of all sales, but they failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs, the global music industry trade group said Wednesday in its 2007 Digital Music Report.

House OKs Measure To End Tax Breaks For Oil, Gas Industry (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance) - The House voted late Thursday to revamp tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and use the expected .4 billion in additional revenue to invest...

Wine industry pumps $162B into economy (AP via Yahoo! News) - With 935,000 acres of vineyards and grape farms, nearly 5,000 wineries and 1.1 million jobs, the wine-and-grape industry sends an estimated $162 billion rippling through the U.S. economy each year, a consulting firm said.

Venezuela May Nationalize Mine Industry (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Venezuela's foreign minister on Thursday said the country is considering nationalizing its mining industry, a week after President Hugo Chavez announced plans to bring the electricity and telecommunications sectors under state control.

The Decline of the PC: Computers No Longer a Growth Industry (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - William Trent submits: In May, 2006 we noted that things were tough in the PC industry, with the HP/DELL/Lenovo troika competing heavily for market share at the expense of profitability.

For nation's vintners, days of wine are rosy / $162 billion industry now in all 50 states with 1.1 million jobs (San Francisco Chronicle) - The U.S. wine and grape products industry has blossomed into a $162 billion-a-year goliath that affects the economy in all 50 states, according to the first study of the business' national range released Wednesday. "This is bigger than any one member...

Nanotechnology Industry Should Develop Safety, Testing Standards, Says Texas- Based Toxicologist (SYS-CON Media) - An internationally recognized toxicologist says it's time for the fledgling nanotechnology industry to develop its own safety standards, or be prepared for international government organizations to set guidelines and establish regulations that may be restrictive to business.

Indian casinos fueling growth in this nation's gambling industry (The Shreveport Times) - U.S. gaming industry revenues are rising steadily. And much of the growth is being fueled by Indian gaming, which boosted its revenues by nearly 20 percent in 2005 from the previous year, according to a study released recently by Casino City Press.

Report: U.S. wine industry booming (Gazette.Net) - The Maryland wine industry is budding and Americans are decanting, sniffing and sipping more wine than ever before, according to the Congressional Wine Caucus’ first nationwide economic study of wine and grape products.