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Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp.'s plan to buy AQuantive Inc. for $6 billion increases the likelihood that the software maker will also buy Yahoo! Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Anthony Noto said today.
Yahoo would plug a ``strategic hole'' at Microsoft that is..
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Washington Post
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Circuit City of Richmond lost $12.2 million during its fourth quarter, losing ground to rival Best Buy, which reported an 18 percent jump in profit.
Both consumer electronics retailers cited flat-panel television sales in discussing their results. Circ..
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Los Angeles Times
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Imagine this: You go to a bookstore, browse, choose a couple of volumes. But you don't want to carry the books around. So you ask the clerk to hold the tomes until Saturday, when you'll come back to buy them...
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Mercury News
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Google has acquired JotSpot, a Palo Alto company that makes Web-site pages called wikis, for an undisclosed amount, according to statements released Tuesday by both companies...
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BusinessWeek
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Securities that allow investors to buy and sell shares at a later date can help lessen portfolio risk
Up markets are easy. Simply buy and hold and watch your portfolios grow. Down markets, though, can be more complicated, as many investors try to asses..
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BusinessWeek
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Companies are introducing services with new ways for consumers to buy, sell, and carry out other transactions using wireless handsets
Western Union just wanted a way to make it easier for immigrants in the U.S. to remit funds to relatives abroad. So la..
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BusinessWeek
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To buy time and stave off losses, more funds are blocking withdrawals. Are they just postponing the inevitable?
There's a chill spreading across the hedge fund industry. With more portfolios falling victim to the credit crunch, managers by the dozen ar..
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BusinessWeek
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Wondering why you can't buy a digital video recorder without also signing up for TiVo or a specific cable service?
Harry Leslie asks: A couple of months ago, I tried to find a [replacement] DVR to purchase but could not find any that were not part of a..
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BBC News
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China has teamed up with US aluminium giant Alcoa to buy a 12% stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto for $14.05bn (�7.05bn).
The state-owned Aluminium Corp of China (Chinalco) said the purchase was the largest Chinese investment overseas.
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CNN
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German state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG announced Monday it has agreed to buy Britain's Laing Rail, which runs passenger services in central and southern England. Laing, part of infrastructure company John Laing PLC, runs Chiltern Railways servi..
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MSNBC
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country’s largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation’s largest consumer bank.
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SF Gate
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank.
The ac..
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MSNBC
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My brother and I think alike about most financial matters. But when it comes to cars, we take very different roads. I always buy. Stan always leases.
He likes the lower monthly payments and wants to drive a new car every three years. I keep my cars 10..
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CNN
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Italian holding company Gemina has agreed to buy Australia's Macquarie Airports' 44.68 percent stake in Rome's main airport operator for 1.237 billion euros ($1.65 billion), Gemina said on Sunday.
The deal gives Gemina about 96 percent of Aeroporti di..
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BBC News
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US private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is to buy a majority stake in car firm DaimlerChrysler's ailing US Chrysler arm.
The group is to buy 80.1% of the firm for 5.5bn euros ($7.41bn; �3.7bn) DaimlerChrysler announced on Monday.
News o..
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New York Times
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They live an ocean away, but that has not stopped the Irish from lining up to buy condominiums in Midtown Manhattan, often years before they are built.
In some cases, entire buildings or large blocks of apartments in unfinished high-rises are being sol..
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ABC News
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Given all the concerns over the housing market these days, the question on everyone's mind is: Is this a good time to buy or sell real estate?
"It all depends on who you are and what you hope to accomplish," Stephanie Singer, a spokeswoman for the Nati..
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BusinessWeek
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Plus: Analyst opinions on Google, Yahoo, GE, Merck, and Midwest Air Group
McDonald's (MCD)
Ups to 5 STARS (strong buy) from 4 STARS (buy)
Analyst: Mark Basham
Global comparable sales rose 8.2% in March and 6.3% for Q1, and McDonald's s now for..
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BusinessWeek
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Deals that fund, then buy out, big life policies may shortchange seniors
The deal offered to affluent seniors sounds awfully good: two years of free life insurance, plus a luxury car, a cruise, or a cash payment. All you have to do is take out a multim..
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FOX News
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, said Thursday it will buy Gerber Products Co. from pharmaceutical maker Novartis SA for $5.5 billion, giving it the largest share of the global baby food market.
The acquisition helps further Nestl..
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