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No amount of cajoling or coaxing made Yahoo accede to Microsoft’s demand for acquisition. Heartbroken, Microsoft has finally given up its plan to acquire Yahoo. It will instead tread a solitary path to achieve its goal of increasing its share in...
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Cable operators are riding high heading into this year’s industry trade show, which kicks off this weekend.
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A winery spokeswoman says California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi has died. He was 94.
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Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company’s board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.’s $47.5...
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Stocks have ended the week narrowly mixed following another spike in oil prices and a surprise jump in home construction.
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Treasury prices fell Friday after rising oil caused investors to worry about rising inflation’s erosion of fixed-income valuations.
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Stocks gave up early gains to trade mixed Friday as investors balanced concerns about rising oil prices with a surprise jump in home construction.
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Federal health authorities are directing a Pasadena, Texas, company to shut down and recall all its dried smoked catfish steaks and other smoked seafood produced since...
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A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses, AOL is shifting its focus toward serving niche audiences with the launch of dozens of specialty Web sites.
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Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime.
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Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq:
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Rice futures sank to a six-week low Friday, falling for a fifth day on hopes that exports from Pakistan and Japan will ease fears of a shortage of the staple consumed...
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Oil prices held on to most of their gains Friday after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said his country boosted production by 300,000 barrels per day last week in...
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Health regulators reiterated their warning Friday that organ transplant drugs from Roche and Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant...
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The Energy Department says it has canceled oil shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in July when the current purchase contract expires.
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“Everybody is against everybody. Somebody has to be for them” – this is the most outstanding catch line describing the International Human Rights’ watchdog...
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Wall Street pulled back Friday as enthusiasm over a surprise uptick in home construction gave way to renewed concerns about how consumers will fare as oil pushes to...
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Oil prices surged more than $3 Friday, shattering a previous record in a spike near $128 a barrel, as prices at the pump pushed to new highs of their own.
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Agriculture futures opened higher Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Treasury prices rose Friday despite an increase in home construction as investors focused, instead, on data showing a decrease in consumer sentiment.
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General Electric Co. said Friday that it plans to sell or spin off its iconic appliance business that for a century sold refrigerators, air conditioners and ovens for...
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Comcast Corp. is buying contact management company Plaxo Inc. and plans to incorporate into all its offerings features intended to help people synchronize their address...
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The board of Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc. said Friday it has approved a request from its former chief executive Ezra Dabah to work on a proposal to acquire...
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Apple Inc. has agreed to buy P.A. Semi Inc., a privately held company that designs power-efficient processors, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
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Music social networking Web site operator imeem Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Snocap Inc., the digital content tracking company founded by Napster creator...
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The $2.2 billion offer for 3Com Corp. made by a private-equity group and Chinese telecommunications company is no longer on the table, according to a person familiar...
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3Com Corp. on Wednesday said it was unable to satisfy the national security concerns of federal authorities reviewing the $2.2 billion sale of the network-equipment...
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In a Feb. 12 story about Yahoo Inc.’s acquisition of Maven Networks Inc., The Associated Press erroneously reported the year that U.S. spending on online video...
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Undeterred by the threat of a hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven...
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Intuit Inc. said Monday that it’s buying Homestead Technologies Inc. for $170 million in a deal that will provide the financial management software maker with...
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Cisco Systems Inc. is snapping up privately held Navini Networks Inc. for $330 million, extending the networking equipment maker’s acquisition streak and...
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Seeking to fill gaps in its product lineup, video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it will acquire two software studios from Elevation Partners in a...
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Electronic Arts Inc., the video game developer known for titles such as “Madden NFL” and “The Sims,” said Thursday it will acquire two software...
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Internet search leader Google Inc. said Tuesday that it has bought Finnish startup Jaiku, which makes a mobile phone application people can use to send short messages...
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Energizer Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy Playtex Products Inc. in an all-cash deal of $1.16 billion.
St Louis-based Energizer will pay $18.30 a share, which is 18...
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The latest deal to happen in the already hot online ad business saw Microsoft announce its decision to buy aQuantive on Friday. Microsoft Corp. said that it has agreed...
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Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel join a takeover battle with swiss company Xstrata seeking to grow their nickel production during a price boom as it made a surprise...
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Spanish telecom giant Telefonica SA has recently confirmed that it is contemplating to sell all or part of its 75 percent stake in Dutch TV-production company Endemol...
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Macquarie Group, owner of Australia’s largest securities company, has recently agreed to acquire Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC, a boutique investment bank owned...
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Apax Partners and Morgan Stanley’s chief investment unit has agreed to acquire Chicago insurance brokerage Hub International Ltd. for around $1.7 billion. The...
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