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Telenor Seeks Norway’s Help After Cancellation of India Permits

6 hours 56 min ago
Telenor ASA has enlisted the help of the Norwegian government to protect its investment in India following the cancellation of 122 mobile-phone licenses by the nation’s top court.
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Panasonic Forecasts Record $10 Billion Loss on Floods, Charges

6 hours 58 min ago
Panasonic Corp. almost doubled its annual loss forecast to a record 780 billion yen ($10 billion), the latest Japanese electronics company to predict weaker earnings because of Thailand floods and slowing demand for TVs.
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Orange Austria Deal May Need Changes for Antitrust Approval

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 9:53pm
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Telekom Austria AG’s purchase of Orange’s Austrian mobile-phone assets may have to be amended to win European and Austrian approval, the country’s Federal Competition Authority said.
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JPMorgan, BofA Sued by New York Over Use of Mortgage Database

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 9:30pm
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over the use of a mortgage database that the state said led to improper foreclosures.
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Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in Airplane Crash

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 4:10pm
A discussion with former Micron Technology board member Gordon Smith on the death of CEO Steve Appleton
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Billionaire Gives Tips for Switching IPhone Plans From AT&T

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 3:13pm
Billionaire Carlos Slim’s U.S. mobile carrier is giving users instructions for switching their AT&T Inc. iPhones to his prepaid calling plans, showing them how to disable software aimed at preventing customers from defecting.
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Hitachi Climbs After Maintaining Profit Forecast: Tokyo Mover

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 3:04pm
Hitachi Ltd., Japan’s second-largest manufacturer, jumped the most in more than 10 months in Tokyo trading after keeping its annual profit forecast unchanged.
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Blackstone Said to Eye Brocade Buyout as Deal Interest Fades

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 2:58pm
Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, is studying a leveraged buyout of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., said a person with knowledge of the situation.
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Lightspeed Said to Be Raising $875 Million for U.S., China Funds

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 2:58pm
Lightspeed Venture Partners, an investor in LivingSocial.com, has almost completed raising two funds, one in the U.S. and one in China, totaling about $875 million, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Google Sponsors Conservative Conference

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 1:46pm
Google Inc., whose chairman has served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, is one of the sponsors of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, co-hosted by the Tea Party.
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White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 1:29pm
While most of Facebook’s more than 800 million users are women, and females are more active social networkers, the company’s board lacks women and minority members
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Exclusive Look Inside Facebook Headquarters

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 9:17am
Bloomberg takes you inside the world of Facebook in Palo Alto
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Li’s Hutchison to Buy Orange Austria in $1.7 Billion Deal

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 3:26am
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. agreed to buy Orange Austria in a deal valued at 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion), adding to more than $31 billion of investments in overseas mobile-phone operations.
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TDC Earnings Miss Estimates on Danish Mobile Price Competition

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 3:26am
TDC A/S, Denmark’s biggest phone company, reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates on competition in the Danish mobile market.
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Misys In Merger Talks With Swiss Software Maker Temenos

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 2:47am
Misys Plc, the U.K. software maker that failed to reach a deal to be bought by Fidelity National Information Services Inc. last August, is in talks to merge with Temenos Group AG of Switzerland.
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White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 2:26am
While most of Facebook’s more than 800 million users are women, and females are more active social networkers, the company’s board lacks women and minority members
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Facebook Files to Raise $5 Billion in Biggest Internet IPO

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 1:57am
Facebook Inc., the social-networking website that in eight years changed the way the world communicates, filed to raise $5 billion in the largest Internet initial public offering on record.
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Facebook's 'Hacker Way'

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:41pm
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, encourages his employees to test the limits of technology
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AMD Expects PC Processor Market to Expand About 5% This Year

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:04pm
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.’s main rival in personal-computer chips, expects the market for processors to grow about 5 percent this year.
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Who Does Google Think You Are?

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:00pm
A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age
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