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PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook plans to expand and simplify its mobile platform for the 200 million users who access the world's largest social network from their cellphones, but denied persistent rumours it was developing its own phone.
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DATE: Nov 04, 2010
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks erased most of their losses after the US Federal Reserve said it will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries because of "disappointingly slow" economic progress.
Manulife Financial Corp., North America's th...
DATE: Nov 04, 2010
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The Ascendant Group Ltd. rose 10.34 percent ($1.50) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The utilities group traded 20,000 shares to close at $16, as did KeyTech Ltd., which climbed 0.68 percent (five cents) to $7.30.
Butterfield Bank was t...
DATE: Nov 04, 2010
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E-mail build up. It's like plaque, hard to get rid of once it has built up. However, I can announce with some satisfaction that I managed to cut my Gmail inbox to 250 items from 1,200.
No, I did not just hit select all and delete, as a friend of mine...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — The first MacBook Air laptop hit the catwalk in 2008 as an elegant but somewhat impractical statement about how far Apple would go to make the thinnest laptop ever. It wasn't very powerful, had a short battery life and started ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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XL Group plc last night announced a new $1 billion share buyback programme, as it swung to a $77.5 million profit for the third quarter.
The global business insurer, which moved its domicile from the Cayman Islands to Ireland earlier this year and ha...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - Major stock indexes rose yesterday as investors awaited the results of Congressional elections, putting the Dow Jones industrial average near its highest point of the year.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 60 points. Th...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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LONDON (AP) - World stocks mostly rose yesterday as investors awaited the outcome of the US midterm elections and the Federal Reserve's decision on how much it will pump into the US economy to shore up the recovery.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of l...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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BATTLE CREEK, Michigan (AP) — Kellogg Co.'s third-quarter net income fell six percent as cereal sales softened, competition intensified and the effects of a cereal recall lingered.
The world's largest cereal maker had warned investors it would be a w...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — MasterCard Inc. yesterday said increased use of credit and debit cards outside the US helped lift its third-quarter profit by 15 percent.
The payments processor recorded a net income of $518 million, or $3.94 per share for the three m...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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