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Microsoft has sent out a bevy of bug fixes in its latest monthly security update. The patches for 25 security holes include a fix for a 17-year-old computer bug in its DOS operating system.
The vulnerability is in almost every version of Windows unti...
DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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CHICAGO / LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp posted an expectations-topping 2.6 percent increase in January sales at established restaurants, as overseas results overshadowed a sluggish performance in the United States.
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DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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DETROIT (AP) — You're driving down the highway and suddenly your car starts accelerating on its own. Knuckles white, going from 60 to 90 miles an hour in a couple of seconds, you do what comes naturally — hit the brakes. But what if the car keeps goi...
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Max Capital Group Ltd. returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2009 as the company's Bermuda and Dublin re/insurance operations led the way with more than 68 percent of its property and casualty gross premiums written last year.
The re/insurer re...
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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. bounced back from a net loss of $55.2 million to report a profit of $211.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 as a result of fewer catastrophe losses and solid investment returns.
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TOKYO/WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said it would call in nearly half a million new Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems, the third recall in a spiralling safety crisis at the world's biggest carmaker.
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Former US Congressman and NBC and MSNBC television news analyst Harold Ford Jr. has been unveiled as the keynote speaker at the Bermuda International Business Association's (BIBA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month.
The AGM will be held at the F...
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XINYANG, China (Reuters) - Fan Wenbao swears he is not in the business of speculating on property. Already the owner of one home in Xinyang, a grimy city in the poor central province of Henan, he bought two more there last year.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rallied yesterday as commodity prices got a lift from a weak US dollar and investors sought riskier assets on speculation that a rescue plan was in the works for Greece's debt problems.
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DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS clients withdrew money at twice the expected rate in the fourth quarter, eclipsing the bank's first net profit since Oswald Gruebel took the helm a year ago and raising concern he will struggle to steady the ship.
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