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Apple Did Not Violate Google Patent With iPhones: Trade Panel
Apple Inc. scored a win on Monday when the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that it did not violate a Google patent to make the popular iPhones. Apple had initially been accused of ...Survey: US Budget Tightening Not Hurting Business
Washington's budget tightening is having a minimal effect on businesses, a survey of business economists released Monday shows. The National Association for Business Economics survey asks how higher ...NY Comptroller Urges Brownfields Cleanup Overhaul
New York's comptroller has called for an overhaul of state programs for restoring thousands of abandoned and contaminated industrial and commercial sites after the state spent nearly $1 billion to ...EU’s Barnier Warns U.S. Over ‘Radical’ New Bank Rule
A U.S. plan to force foreign banks to hold far more capital could sow discord among supervisors and lead to retaliation from abroad, European Union financial services czar Michel Barnier said on ...
Bogus Tweet Briefly Disrupts Financial Markets
Markets for stocks, bonds, oil and commodities were briefly roiled on Tuesday after a bogus report of explosions at the White House. Shortly after 1 p.m. (1700 GMT), U.S. government debt prices ...Trustee Sues Ex-MF Global CEO Corzine; Insurance Cover Uncertain
Jon Corzine was sued by the bankruptcy trustee liquidating MF Global Holdings Ltd, who accused the former chief executive of negligently pursuing a high-risk business strategy that culminated in the ...
BP’s Legal Gamble May Trim Spill Bill By Billions: Analysis
BP Plc's attempt to get a U.S. federal court to pin at least a sizeable amount of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster on other companies may have saved it billions of dollars. After failing ...S&P Asks Federal Judge To Dismiss U.S. Fraud Lawsuit
Standard & Poor's asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss a U.S. Justice Department civil suit against the rating agency, arguing the government's case is based on vague statements that cannot ...