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Speed up your work with Ferrari office chairs

If you're looking for a late Father's Day gift, or maybe just a present for the CEO who has everything, a selection of exclusive Ferrari office chairs can be purchased from www.racechairs.com. The rolling, adjustable office chairs look the part, and they should, considering that they were removed from real exotics. Prices for the licensed Prancing Horse chairs start at about $5,000, with the Ferrari 16M model coming in at the sale price of $12,999.

Fisker Automotive begins hiring blitz

Fisker Automotive will hire 120 workers in the coming months to staff the former General Motors factory in Wilmington, Del., that will build Fisker's next plug-in hybrid sedan, due in 2013. Code-named Project Nina, the future car will join the plug-in Karma sedan in Fisker's lineup as the company expands its portfolio of premium hybrid cars. The Karma is launching this year, and production of the future sedan--expected to be priced at about $39,000 after government incentives--would begin late next year.

GM profits surge to $3.2 billion in first quarter

General Motors on Thursday posted net income of $3.2 billion for the first quarter, its fifth straight quarterly profit since emerging from bankruptcy. Stripping out one-time charges and gains, including $1.6 billion in income from the March sale of GM's ownership in Delphi Automotive, GM earned $2 billion before interest and taxes. GM's net income for the January-through-March period a year earlier was $865 million.