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- Hurricane Katrina: IEA members agree to release emergency oil supplies to the US
- $253 million bitter pill for Merck, drug giant plans to appeal
- Indian state pollution board issues closure notice to Coke bottling plant
- Qualcomm acquires Elata for $57 million cash
- Oil prices dampen Wal-Mart's financials portending a slowdown in growth
- Delta sells Atlantic Southeast to SkyWest, bankruptcy threat still looms large
- Pleading guilty, WorldCom’s Sullivan gets a bargain of a shorter sentence
- Whirlpool raises Maytag stakes
- E*Trade’s $700 million purchase, consolidation in stagnant market
- Tough times for Wal-Mart, but sales performance remains strong
- Siemens 2,400 job cuts put it on the restructuring bandwagon
- Sony's announces a slim down, shrugging off 10,000 workers
- Google co-founders inch their way into Forbes list courtesy lucrative IPO
- After employee-cuts, Ford plans to lose some suppliers to reduce costs
- Delphi to file Ch 11 on Saturday claim reports
- Samsung's Q3 results flat but offer a flash of optimism
- Microsoft results please while its guidance disappoint
- Spain's Telefonica to takeover mobile giant O2
- Deutsche Telekom to downsize 32,000 jobs by 2008
- Johnson & Johnson to acquire Guidant for $21.5 billion
- Cisco puts in a $6.9 billion bid for Scientific-Atlanta
- China strikes deal for 70 Boeing airliners, might buy 80 more
- Sales slump, spiraling staff expenses has GM wielding the axe
- BlackBerry maker faces US black out
- Boeing nets dozen 777-300ERs orders from Cathay Pacific
- NTL confirms 323 pence per share offer for Virgin Mobile
- After GM, it is Ford that takes cuts in plants and people to be competitive
- US witnesses disappointing retail sales in November
- US trade deficit defies expectations, soars to record levels in October
- Pfizer wins injunction against generic Lipitor products until 2011
- Wal-Mart's luncheon bill totals $172.3 million only!
- GM and Ford workers give healthcare deal a nod
- Wal-Mart posts its most disappointing festival sales in the last five years
- Starbucks wins trademark case against Chinese firm
- AOL looking to reverse declining web traffic with Truveo acquisition
- US's first wind powered Fortune 500 company: Whole Foods
- Bonus bounty of $21.5bn for Wall Street workers
- Guidant shareholders prefer Boston Scientific $25bn takeover offer
- Lord & Taylor chain to be sold: Federated
- Shoppers may tighten belts in 2006: NRF
- Google to go on the air: buys dMarc Braodcasting for $1.24bn
- AMD outpaces Intel with Q4 revenues surging 45 percent
- Disney looking to revive box office magic with Pixar acquisition
- Xbox 360 short supply drags Microsoft's Q2 earnings; posts record overall revenues
- UA's $17 billion loss reflects huge charges and yet cuts in non-fuel costs
- Mittal makes hostile bid for Arcelor
- Siemens expands footprint in Russia's power market; buys 21% of Power Machines
- French government opposes Mittal's 'hostile' bid for Arcelor
- United out of bankruptcy; 'It's time to fly' says upbeat CEO
- Google profits fail to impress investors; share prices tumble 19% before recovering
- Declining readership drags Tribune's Q4 profits 38% down
- Wipro one of 6 IT firms to get major supply contracts from GM
- 'Free shipping' offers drag Amazon's Q4 profits down 43%
- Arcelor softens stand, says willing to receive proposal for project from Mittal Steel
- Investor Icahn wants Time Warner to split into 4 companies
- Johansson, Knightley drop clothes for Vanity Fair cover
- US's $725bn trade gap raises concern; may cross $800bn in 2006, experts warn
- HP reorgs to separate handhelds unit
- 'Scrap ''illegal tax breaks'' to exporters or face sanctions' US warned
- UK output prices surge; BoE may hold interest rate next month too
- Revenue from notebook and printer supplies raises HP profits 30%
- 85% dividend not meant to boost opposition to Mittals: Arcelor
- Leading airlines raided for suspected price-fixing in cargo biz
- Merrill's asset management unit to combine with BlackRock
- Federated sells 15 stores to Australian mall operator Westfield
- German group Henkel buys top US deo brands from P&G
- Lenovo to launch low-cost PCs for American SMEs
- Emirates company delays US ports takeover
- MSN to use adCenter for larger share of online ad market
- Dubai Port agrees to 45-day review of P&O deal to ease congressmen's concerns
- DoJ raps Google for non-compliance to subpoena
- Slow growth warning makes Google share price tumble 13%
- 'Gateway Vs HP' patent feud ends with $47m in settlement and cross-licensing
- GM, Ford lose more market share to Asian car makers: Feb figures
- Northwest pilots, flight attendants agree to pay cuts
- GM reduces Suzuki alliance by 17.4 percent to raise $2bn
- Blockbuster Q4 profits soar to $18m; will outperform sector in US, says CEO
- LSE takeover battle may continue with new suitors Nasdaq and NYSE: analysts
- McClatchy in $4.5 billion deal to buy Knight Ridder
- DP World announces intentions to sell US ports business in six months to 'American' buyer
- Google to create online marketplace using Google Base
- GM restates 2005 earnings for second time
- Coles Myer H1 profits up 10.5%; CEO Fletcher to overhaul food & liquor biz
- Google to be part of S&P 500 index
- SuSE CTO, Geck bids Novell goodbye
- Red Hat quarterly profit posts two-fold increase as corporate demand surges
- Light trucks, SUVs must go farther: new fuel economy standards
- Google shares fall on announcement of additional offering
- Microsoft claims ''breakthrough'' in EU anti-trust case
- Coca Cola ties board pay to performance; to pay only in stocks
- Burger King CEO Brenneman quits
- Exxon largesse to ex-chief draws flak
- New York, London bourses learnt to be in strategic talks
- U.S. investment firm buys out Flextronics' India software unit
- Japan's industrial output for February falls
- IBM posts 22% increase in Q1 profit
- Yahoo's Q1 profit down 22%
- Novell wants friendlier ties with Oracle, says CEO
- Dollar needs to depreciate to correct economic imbalance, says IMF
- Google spreads Web of leadership: Q1 profits, revenues surpass expectations
