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Google, News Corp. sign search, ad deal
Aug 7 2006 9:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Google Inc. reached a deal Monday with the owner of MySpace.com to pay at least $900 million in shared advertising revenue and become the exclusive search provider for the popular online hangout.
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AOL: Breach of privacy was a mistake
Aug 7 2006 8:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - AOL released the Internet search terms that more than 650,000 of its subscribers entered over a three-month period and admitted Monday that what it originally intended as a gesture to researchers amounted to a privacy breach and a mistake.
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Apple completes switch to Intel chips
Aug 7 2006 5:32PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention _ for the moment _ from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options.
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IBM prevails in age-discrimination case
Aug 7 2006 3:30PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - IBM Corp. did not commit age discrimination when it changed its pension coverage in the 1990s, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in an influential case that Big Blue had agreed to settle for up to $1.4 billion if it had lost the appeal.
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U.K. store worker fired by text message
Aug 7 2006 1:02PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Katy Tanner's cell phone beeped with a startling message _ you're fired. The 21-year-old had a migraine headache and took a sick day last week from her job at Blue Banana, a chain body-piercing studio in Cardiff, Wales, she said Monday. She turned on her cell phone the next day to discover she'd been terminated from her sales position.
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