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In a breakthrough after a months-long standoff, Microsoft has increased its offer and intensified negotiations, a person involved in the talks said.
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The company posted first-quarter profit of $270 million on stronger results at its cable networks and Paramount studio.
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The rules are aimed at making it more difficult for credit card companies to raise rates arbitrarily, conceal high penalty fees, or engage in other practices that consumer groups say are abusive.
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About one in five vehicles sold in the U.S. in April was a compact or subcompact car, while sales of pickups and S.U.V.’s fell sharply.
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Can the Bill James approach to numbers work in basketball?
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Prominent New Jersey architects volunteered their time to brainstorm a wide range of redesign notions for the historic building in Holmdel, N.J.
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The economy in April lost 20,000 jobs, fewer than predicted, but the report suggested to many economists that the U.S. is ensnared in a recession.
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The seller of housewares and bedding is now one the biggest companies taken private in the recent buyout boom to land in bankruptcy court.
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The lawsuit raises questions over whether vendors who are not physically present in New York State should collect tax on behalf of the state.
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The $3.8 billion structure, the latest in China’s Olympic works, can handle more than 50 million fliers a year.
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To the next president: There is a retirement crisis coming.
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Nortel posted a bigger first-quarter loss as a series of charges weighed on results, but the telecommunications equipment maker said it still expected to meet full-year targets.
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The Federal Reserve moved to increase the size of its cash auctions to banks and allow financial institutions to put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
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The lumber and paper producer posted a first-quarter loss of $148 million, hurt by a sagging housing market and low product prices.
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First-quarter profit fell 39 percent to $38.8 million, hurt by an early retirement program charge at Newsweek and a continued loss of revenue from the media company’s newspapers.
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How the publisher Louise Hay unified psychics, mindhealers, angel therapists and positive thinkers of all varieties into a self-help spirituality empire.
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The Italian dairy group said it will issue new stock valued at more than $36 million to settle a case brought by former shareholders in connection with the 2003 collapse of the company.
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Net income in the first quarter rose to $5.17 billion at Chevron as soaring oil prices outweighed weak profits from gasoline production.
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The Interpublic Group agreed to pay the fine to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting practices.
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Pro bono positions are part of a growing trend by law firms, which have been grappling to meet various challenges on the pro bono front.
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Americans had plenty of reasons not to spend: workers’ wages continued to grow at an anemic pace, even as higher prices for food and gasoline pinched pocketbooks.
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Wall Street shot higher on Thursday as investors saw a rising dollar and falling oil prices as promising signs for the economy.
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The six-year-old Hollywood wiretapping case went to the jury after a federal prosecutor urged the panel members to look past the celebrities and entertainment moguls involved.
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales deepened state control of the economy on Thursday, the second anniversary of his energy nationalization.
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Burger King Holdings Inc posted a rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by higher sales at new and remodeled restaurants.
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The consumer products maker said third-quarter profit fell nearly 23 percent, hurt by rising costs for energy and raw materials.
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As the mortgage crisis spilled over into a credit squeeze threatening Wall Street, the government tried to prevent disaster while not helping those who don’t deserve it.
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Eastman Kodak, which once considered itself the Bell Labs of chemistry, has embraced the digital world and the researchers who understand it.
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Store closings and delayed openings are expected to ripple through the economy, depriving many communities of sales tax revenue.
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The once-frosty relationship between Fox News and the Democratic candidates seems to have grown warmer as they find each other useful.
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The Carlyle Group is counting on its head start in international markets to help it weather recent turbulence.
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The awards reflect the efforts of National Geographic, long recognized for top-flight photography, to elevate the rest of its offerings.
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The House Financial Services Committee approved legislation that would make up to $300 billion in insured loans available to refinance the mortgages of borrowers in danger of foreclosure.
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Drivers have long known that slowing down on the highway means getting more miles to the gallon. Now airlines are trying it, too
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The network server company swung to a loss in its most recent quarter, ending five straight quarters of profit, as the company struggled to cope with a challenging economy.
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The departing government of the center-left Prime Minister Romano Prodi posted on Wednesday the returns for all 40 million Italians who paid taxes in 2005.
