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GameStop's fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 12%, driven by new-game and used-product sales.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the...
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AFP - China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some games contained...
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Thanksgiving is around the corner, but Silicon Valley's charitable giving is on the back burner.
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A rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure, adding to concerns about...
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Starwood will move its corporate headquarters to Stamford, Conn., from New York's Westchester County, after receiving state government...
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The U.S. real estate arm of Africa Israel Investments has tentatively agreed with creditors to restructure its disastrous acquisition...
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Lorillard has begun looking for a successor to CEO Martin L. Orlowsky, whose contract at the cigarette maker expires next year.
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In a widely-expected move, BP's Russian joint venture TNK-BP confirmed that it will appoint Maxim Barsky as its new Chief Executive...
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Lionel Electric Trains has opened the first retail store in its 100-year history but plans to close the store after only two months...
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The Dutch government Thursday announced a new $6.5 billion (euro4.4 billion) bailout package for nationalized bank ABN Amro, intended...
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The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless insurance was unchanged last week, but the four-week moving average...
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U.S. Natural Gas Inventories Rise 20 Bcf Last Week
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Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) issued a shaky outlook for the holiday shopping season on Thursday, overshadowing the company’s tripling...
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cell phone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company...
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Freddie Mac: 30-yr Mortgage Rate Lowest Since May
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Dollar Gains More Ground After Latest U.S. Data
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Gold Extends Loss After Mortgage, Indicators Data
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended the costly bailout of insurer...
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Bank Of Japan Upbeat On Economy, Keeps Rate Steady
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There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven...
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European stocks declined on Friday, with losses from banks offsetting gains for fertilizer makers and food producers...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate...
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A state-owned Russian bank is likely to take a stake in the initial public offering of Rusal, marking the first...
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Blackstone's Pinnacle Brands agreed to pay $1.3 billion to acquire Birds Eye, the largest frozen-vegetable company...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A website set up by China's Defense Ministry said it was hit by 2.3 million hacker attacks...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web company AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort...
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Dollar Gains More Ground After Latest U.S. Data
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack...
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Microsoft's Windows 7 has outsold by two times any previous version of the operating system in the same length...
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Gap's fiscal-third-quarter profit climbed 25% on strong sales at its long-struggling Old Navy chain, which posted...
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Coal Producer Cloud Peak IPO Prices At $15 a Share
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Dell's profit dropped 54% despite recent signs of a tech recovery, raising questions about the PC maker's strategy...
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Reuters - General Electric and Vivendi are at least $1 billion apart in their valuation of the French group'...
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For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working...
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MBA: Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Record
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China Mobile is pinning its hopes on new 3G services such as mobile television and mobile readers to drive growth as it faces increasing...
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Shoppers spent more money at low-price Old Navy stores in the third quarter this year, helping Gap Inc.'s profit climb 25 percent compared...
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Yahoo is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.
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Growing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration...
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German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG retuns to profitability in the fiscal fourth quarter.
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Reuters - Web company AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual...
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Nestle — which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. — says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage...
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For Citibank credit card holders, there is one way to escape the bank's rate hikes currently under way: Meet a monthly spending requirement...
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Reuters - Dell Inc's quarterly profit plunged 54 percent on lower-than-expected sales as it lost market share to...
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By ceding control of NBC, General Electric Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt would be refocusing GE on its industrial businesses and distancing...
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The German auto maker said its supervisory board cleared the way for the planned integration of Porsche by approving contracts determining...
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AP - The three major credit ratings agencies gave mortgage-backed securities unjustifiably high ratings in return for lucrative fees...
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co is considering launching a bid of at least $17 billion for British chocolatier...
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AP - Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday...
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Galaxy Entertainment Group, one of Macau's six casino operators, is seeking to raise up to $1 billion in debt to fund the development...
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A rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure, adding to concerns about...
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Donald Trump is synonymous with luxury high-rises, his TV show and his distinctive hairstyle. Now he's putting his name on a vitamin...