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CNN
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French oil giant Total said Wednesday net profit for the fourth quarter of 2007 rose 62 percent as oil prices surged and new projects in Angola and Qatar boosted production. The world's fourth-largest oil and gas company said net profit rose to €3.6 bil..
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BusinessWeek
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A report from Human Rights Watch accuses the retailing giant of going to extreme lengths to prevent workers from forming unions
Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental group based in New York, is best known for scathing reports on political issues such..
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Daily Mail
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Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.
The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celeb..
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BBC News
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has reported record annual profits of $25.36bn (£12.94bn) for 2006...
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Economist
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ROSS PEROT, a populist American politician, predicted in the early 1990s that a trade pact with Mexico would create a ‘‘giant sucking sound’’ as jobs headed south. Instead, America experienced full employment. So giant-sucking-sound detectors turn..
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BusinessWeek
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The energy giant is a powerful profit-making machine—but BW's Gene Marcial says its shares remain undervalued
John D. Rockefeller, and the heirs to his Standard Oil fortune, would probably all agree on one maxim: Nothing succeeds like success. And so..
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BusinessWeek
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Profits drop sharply after a report that corruption at the German engineering giant was widespread, but the CEO remains upbeat on growth
German engineering giant Siemens has been going through a pretty torrid time recently. It has had to deal with a nu..
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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.
The..
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BusinessWeek
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Why Schlumberger, long a hired gun in oil-field services, is becoming a major force and scaring Big Oil
Pad 1b Lempyskoye is a pretty desolate spot. The drilling site for Russian oil giant Rosneft isn't much more than a snow-covered clearing in the end..
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CNN
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A Siberian court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the BP PLC's local subsidiary over the amount of gas it produces, opening the way for regulators to pull the license to the company's giant Kovykta gas field.
Analysts have called the case symptom..
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BusinessWeek
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In its largest acquisition ever, the software giant is spending $6 billion for online marketing powerhouse aQuantive
There's rarely been a doubt that Microsoft (MSFT) intends to compete with Google (GOOG). Yet for the past few years, the software giant..
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BusinessWeek
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The Financial Times reports the global steel giant is planning a bid for AK Steel
Could the acquisition-minded Mittals be circling AK Steel (AKS)? Shares of the Middletown (Ohio) steel fabricator surged May 8 on a report that Luxembourg-based global st..
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BusinessWeek
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India's IT giant reported a 41% revenue increase for the year, propelling revenues past the $4 billion milestone.
India's IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hit a milestone this week, crossing US$4 billion in revenues for the first time...
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BusinessWeek
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The software giant's choice for CEO will be especially crucial, as it contends with slacking growth and intense rivalry from Oracle
The departure Mar. 28 of SAP wunderkind Shai Agassi from the German software giant may clear up a contested line of succ..
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