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Telenor Seeks Norway’s Help After Cancellation of India Permits
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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?
A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age
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