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Private equity firms win battle for bankrupt Polaroid

Bankrupt Polaroid Corp. has been bought by a pair of private equity firms after a judge threw out the acquisition of the iconic inventor of instant photography by another investor.

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BP must pay some of Halliburton's Gulf spill costs

British oil giant BP must cover some of the eventual claims against subcontractor Halliburton arising from the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a US judge ruled Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

French police arrest boss of breast implant company

French police on Thursday arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the PIP breast implant company that sparked a global health scare by using substandard silicone, as part of a manslaughter probe.

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Former HP chair Dunn, 58, dies after cancer bout

(AP) -- Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper ...

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Global Fund for world health halts new programs

(AP) -- The world's biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years - a situation likely to hit poor AIDS patients around the ...

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Con artist who helped Google probe to be sentenced

(AP) -- A massive federal investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million this year to settle criminal claims over its advertising began with the 2008 arrest of a jet-setting career con artist, who took ...

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created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Federal probe of eBay may turn on quest for rival's 'secret sauce'

With eBay Inc. and Craigslist entrenched in a scorching legal feud last year, a Delaware judge observed that eBay's "curious" decision to partner with the San Francisco online classified ad power back in 2004 was "an opportunity ...

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created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US demands Deloitte cooperate in China fraud probe

US regulators blasted global accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu on Thursday for failing to cooperate in their probe of suspected fraud by Longtop, a Chinese software company.

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Tech exec pleads guilty to insider trading

A technology company executive pleaded guilty to providing confidential information on Apple and other companies, as part of a massive insider-trading probe.

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created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alibaba says China police arrest 36 in fraud probe

Police have arrested 36 people in southeast China following an investigation into fraud on e-commerce site Alibaba.com and other websites that duped buyers out of more than $6 million.

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created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cybercrime networks impacted 1M computer users

(AP) -- Law enforcement officers in the U.S. and seven other nations have seized dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts in an international probe of cybercrime rings responsible for $74 million in losses to more ...

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created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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