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Morgan Stanley, as reported by The Financial Times, is tying its promise to provide financing to hedge fund clients to the price of credit insurance on its own debt, it said. If the cost of the protection rises to a certain level, that would trigger a reduction in Morgan Stanley's commitments to hedge funds.

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The New York Times has reported that Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google's Android software, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
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Eight states put Internet-related complaints among their top-three consumer headaches in 2007 while 24 states had some form of online fraud in their top 10 complaints, according to the Center for American Progress (CAP), which worked with the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Bloggers were up in arms over China's decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth. Many said they felt cheated because one of the most touching moments of the critically acclaimed ceremony was not the real deal.
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The U.S. trade sector has been one of the bright spots for an economy struggling with a deep housing downturn and credit crunch, and analysts said the data suggested growth in the second quarter was stronger than previously thought.
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Some large IT projects are more successful than they deserve to be. It's time for post-project analysis that will benchmark a projects circumstances and capture the risks in assuming that other projects will produce similar results.
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While sales in China, Russia and the Middle East are growing faster than anticipated, Toyota and other automakers face a downward sales spiral in North America, Western Europe and Japan, a weaker dollar that drags on earnings, and dearer raw materials.
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Yahoo said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of recent board votes were withheld for Yang, the company's co-founder, or more than twice the opposition to his reappointment to the board as in the first count.
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Greenspan called the current crisis a once or twice in a century event and said insolvency would only end once U.S. house prices stabilized.
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The Commerce Department said consumer spending rose 0.6 percent in June after gaining 0.8 percent in May. However, after accounting for inflation, spending fell 0.2 percent. Spending accounts for about two-thirds of national economic growth but there is a question whether consumers will be able to keep spending more.
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The ruling requires Comcast to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
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Travelers carrying smart cell phones, blackberries or laptop computers to China could be offering up sensitive personal or business information to state-controlled telecommunications carriers.
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Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques.
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A source familiar with Google's thinking said that any decision to move ahead with a venture capital unit was in very preliminary stages and that no firm decisions had been taken.
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A new study appears to point to the challenges of managing unstructured data, as in electronic document and records management, in the enterprise.

 
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