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BCE buyers finalize funding
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The buyers of telecoms company BCE Inc
are sticking to the agreed C$42.75 per-share purchase price and
have delivered the funding documents needed for the deal to go
ahead, the company said on Friday.
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Tax credit to save UBS from hefty loss
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Battered Swiss bank UBS said on Friday
it should be saved from another hefty loss in the second
quarter by a large tax credit, giving a much-needed though
short-lived boost to its share price.
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World stocks slip again
(Reuters)
 Reuters - World stocks slipped back towards this
week's five-month low on Friday as steadying oil prices failed
to erase concerns about slowing economic growth and rising
inflation, and as banking stocks came under renewed pressure.
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European banks need to raise up to $141 billion: Goldman
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Goldman Sachs said the European banks sector
needs to raise about 60 billion to 90 billion euros ($94 to
$141 billion), or withhold one year of dividends, to reach an
aggregate Tier I ratio of 9 percent -- a level achieved by
European banks that have recapitalized recently.
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Kimmitt confident in economic fundamentals
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United
States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a
current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future.
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Kimmitt confident in economic fundamentals
(Reuters)
Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United
States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a
current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Want to buy newspaper stocks? You should see an analyst. Trouble is there aren't many around anymore.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian fiddler who is no stranger to controversy has put half his future music earnings up for sale on eBay, the auction website.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times will slash 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, and trim its published pages by 15 percent in an effort to save money in the face of declining revenues, the newspaper said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google and Yahoo to share some advertising revenue, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's re-election sparked cries of outrage from Zimbabwean bloggers on Monday and demands for international intervention.
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(Reuters) - Citigroup added Google Inc and Time Warner Inc to its top picks live list, based on the search engine giant's near- and long-term outlook and a possible sale of Time Warner's AOL advertising and dial-up businesses.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French court ordered eBay Inc to pay 38.6 million euros ($61 million) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing the sale of fake merchandise, in a ruling immediately appealed by the online auction website.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Online fashion retailer ASOS shrugged off the consumer downturn, posting a steep rise in annual profit and a near doubling in first-quarter sales as it benefits from the growing popularity of Internet shopping.
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DENVER (Billboard) - More than a year after the introduction of lyric licensing programs, several online music services that implemented them are reporting mixed feelings about their results.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dwarf actor Verne Troyer, a star of "The Love Guru," has sued celebrity Web site TMZ.com and other defendants seeking more than $20 million in damages over a sex tape he said was stolen and posted online.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV Networks on Thursday officially launched comedy destination Atom.com, a re-branding of its AtomFilms property.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - If it's sand you crave on your vacation, then Greenpeace might have just the travel idea for you.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AniBoom.com, an Internet home for animators to create and share their work, has raised an additional $10 million in funding led by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as "they" or "themself."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British actress who found YouTube fame after posting monologues about her failed marriage to a Broadway theater owner and producer defended her popular videos in a New York court on Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday named Patrick Pichette, president of operations at Bell Canada, as its new chief financial officer, replacing CFO George Reyes after a nearly year-long search.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Publicis, the world's fourth largest advertising group, on Wednesday launched a strategic initiative called VivaKi to boost performance in the fast-growing digital advertising market.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to flog its wares.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Advice and medications delivered via the internet, along with home blood pressure (BP) monitoring, lets people with high blood pressure get their condition under control, researchers have report in this week's Journal of the Am
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| Software News |
'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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Nokia 6220 Smartphone Released
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Nokia 6220 classic design includes 3G connectivity, compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, Bluetooth capabilities, and a 5-megapixel camera.
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Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites.
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Three Startups To Solve SaaS Integration Problems
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Boomi, SnapLogic, and Cast Iron are rolling out new offerings designed to help companies integrate software running in the cloud with onsite software.
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Blogger Opinion: Why We Left NetSuite
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
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Krugle enhances code search appliance
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Krugle plans to ship next week an upgrade to its search appliance for enterprise software development projects, which makes it easier for teams of developers to maintain code.
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