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Feds querying labels over 'Total Music'
Feb 7 2008 11:42PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department has launched an inquiry into "Total Music," an approach for selling digital music that has been the subject of early discussions between major record labels and consumer electronics manufacturers, a person familiar with the inquiry said Thursday.
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Investor worries hang over Microsoft bid
Feb 7 2008 11:39PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp. views its proposed takeover of Yahoo Inc. as the missing piece in its Internet advertising puzzle, but skeptics think the deal could become a jumbled mess that will help make rival Google Inc. even stronger.
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Spaceship builder faulted in explosion
Feb 7 2008 9:07PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Workers at a pioneering space tourism company were watching a rocket propellent test through a chain-link fence in the Mojave Desert when some were killed by an explosion last summer, according to a state investigation released Thursday.
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Spaceship builder faulted in explosion
Feb 7 2008 9:07PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Workers at a pioneering space tourism company were watching a rocket propellent test through a chain-link fence in the Mojave Desert when some were killed by an explosion last summer, according to a state investigation released Thursday.
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Softbank profit surges fourfold
Feb 7 2008 8:45PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The president of a Japanese mobile carrier that owns a stake in Yahoo said Thursday he is in talks with Yahoo chief Jerry Yang about how to respond to Microsoft's takeover bid.
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Facebook speaks Spanish for first time
Feb 7 2008 7:47PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Facebook Inc. unveiled a Spanish-language version of its popular online social network Thursday, hoping to expand its audience and catch up to rival MySpace.com.
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Comcast lobbyist wired for Web access
Feb 7 2008 6:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, paid Capitol Solutions LLC $300,000 in 2007 to channel its issues to Congress.
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Google CEO named chairman of think tank
Feb 7 2008 4:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of the world's largest search engine, needs to update his profile on the company Web site.
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Encrypted laptop poses legal dilemma
Feb 7 2008 4:08PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography.
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Gates charity's head an 'accidental' CEO
Feb 7 2008 3:22PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The CEO of the world's largest philanthropy would have stepped aside two years ago if co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates hadn't asked her help to manage its growth after billionaire Warren Buffett asked them to give away his money as well, Patty Stonesifer said Thursday.
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Gates charity's head an 'accidental' CEO
Feb 7 2008 3:22PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The CEO of the world's largest philanthropy would have stepped aside two years ago if co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates hadn't asked her help to manage its growth after billionaire Warren Buffett asked them to give away his money as well, Patty Stonesifer said Thursday.
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Infineon reports 1Q loss
Feb 7 2008 1:12PM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Infineon Technologies AG, the German maker of semiconductors, said Thursday that a downturn at its Qimonda computer memory chip subsidiary pushed it to a loss in the first quarter of its fiscal year as chip prices fell.
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Infineon reports 1Q loss
Feb 7 2008 1:12PM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Infineon Technologies AG, the German maker of semiconductors, said Thursday that a downturn at its Qimonda computer memory chip subsidiary pushed it to a loss in the first quarter of its fiscal year as chip prices fell.
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Cisco shares fall on gloomy outlook
Feb 7 2008 9:44AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers' troubling assessment of the health of U.S. technology spending late last year triggered a stock sell-off that chopped Cisco's market value by one-third.
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Consumers can scan bank deposits at home
Feb 7 2008 7:41AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Online banking service provider CheckFree Corp. is rolling out technology that could mean consumers will no longer have to go to a bank branch to deposit checks.
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Google software makes it easier to share
Feb 7 2008 7:38AM (CT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc. is introducing an online business software package designed to make it easier for people in the same organization to share documents and information.
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Modu to launch tiny phone 'module'
Feb 7 2008 12:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Israeli startup has convinced wireless carriers in three countries to try a new concept: a tiny cell phone that pops into interchangeable "jackets" to become a bigger, smarter phone _ or into other gadgets to connect them to the Internet.
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