Reuters - Maintenance problems with aging oil refineries and strong global gasoline demand should push gasoline prices for American motorists slightly above $3.00 per gallon this summer, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected on Tuesday.
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Reuters - Red Hat Inc. said on Wednesday it formed a partnership with IBM to develop and sell software for mainframe computers, in what analysts said was a blow to chief rival Novell Inc.
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Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSa.N) said on Wednesday quarterly profit rose, helped by movie titles such as "Night at the Museum" and the DVD release of "Borat," as well as an increase in affiliate revenue for cable channel Fox News.
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The times when people used mural paintings or papyrus to transmit information is now only a memory. As time went by, people made it possible for themselves to communicate a lot faster and information can now be sent in just a few seconds. The facilities that we have nowadays would scare people who lived thousands of years ago and if you come to think of it better it would probably scare you too if not for all products that make it easier to use what you already have.
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Reuters - Private equity firms Providence Equity Partners and The Blackstone Group are teamed up in a bid for U.S. rural wireless telecoms service provider Alltel Corp. , a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Reuters - Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender said on Wednesday it made 11 percent more home loans in April despite cutting back loans to people with weaker credit histories.
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FT.com - Foreign companies will have to publicly pledge to uphold UK standards of corporate governance and investor protection under new guidelines if they want to be included in London stock market benchmarks such as the FTSE 100.
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