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'); document.write(''); document.write('OTTAWA (AP) — Corel Corp., the maker of WordPerfect and other software, on Monday justified an offer to take the company private, saying that complete ownership is necessary to inject capital quickly and avert a default on its loans.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LOS ANGELES (AP) — Independent label artists Bjork and Tom Waits are coming to MySpace Music.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.\'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, proof that cost-cutting and a push into rival IBM Corp.\'s stronghold of technology services is helping the company absorb a falloff in sales in most of its major divisions.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('HOUSTON (AP) — Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said Monday that it expects to pay out an annual cash dividend of $4.40 per unit in 2010, up from $4.20 in 2009.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Detroit man described as one of the world\'s most prolific senders of spam e-mail to more than four years in prison for his role in a 2005 stock fraud scheme that netted him $2.7 million.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LAS VEGAS (AP) — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has offered a higher sum than Penn National Gaming Inc. to open bidding at a bankruptcy auction for the unfinished Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Insurer Max Capital Group Ltd. said Monday that David Kalainoff has been appointed president of reinsurance operations.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — First-time buyers taking advantage of a special tax credit gave sales of existing homes in October their biggest surge in a decade, raising hopes for a turnaround in the housing market and pleasing Wall Street.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Freedom Communications, owner of The Orange County Register in California and other media properties, is seeking approval of a $300,000 bonus plan for its chief financial officer.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Paint and coatings maker Valspar Corp. said Monday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit climbed as the company trimmed the cost of sales and research and development expenses.
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