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  • Hewlett-Packard considers cutting 25,000 jobs
    Hewlett-Packard is considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs and help the company contend with ebbing demand for computers and services, people briefed on the plans said....

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  • Minute Maid wins 'Pomegranate Blueberry' case
    Minute Maid can keep labeling one of its beverages "Pomegranate Blueberry" even though it's made up almost entirely of apple and grape juices and contains only 0.3 percent pomegranate juice and 0.2 percent blueberry...

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  • Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix
    (05-19) 16:34 PDT CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark...

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  • Wade, Heat move on after Game 3 spat
    (05-19) 15:37 PDT Indianapolis (AP) -- Refreshed in body and spirit, the Miami Heat returned to practice reunited and refocused. There was no looking back. No heartfelt apologies given. No need for a detailed autopsy of...

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  • Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
    (05-19) 15:33 PDT BEIJING, China (AP) -- A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the United States. Chen Guangcheng (chuhn gwahng-chuhng) was accompanied by his wife...

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  • Stenhouse Jr. seeks Nationwide for 3-peat at Iowa
    (05-19) 15:05 PDT Newton, Iowa (AP) -- With most of the NASCAR world focused solely on Charlotte and Saturday night's All-Star Race, the Nationwide series has the Iowa Speedway all to itself. As if Ricky Stenhouse, Jr....

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  • Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
    (05-19) 12:49 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. But Chinese regulators...

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  • Records: Joplin twister was costliest since 1950
    (05-19) 11:10 PDT Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) -- The cost of 30 manhole covers that got sucked away: $5,800. A new concession stand at the destroyed high school: $228,600. Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets:...

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  • Gunter Sachs art collection to be auctioned in UK
    (05-19) 08:51 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- A modern art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Salvador Dali, will be sold next week in London, Sotheby's said Saturday. The works were...

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  • Beijing rejects US report on Chinese military
    (05-19) 07:18 PDT BEIJING, China (AP) -- China on Saturday rejected an annual Pentagon report that said Beijing is aggressively modernizing its military forces. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the report made...

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  • Fire risk brings recall of nearly 87,000 Jeeps
    (05-19) 07:13 PDT DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires. U.S. safety regulators say the recall affects only Wranglers from the 2010...

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  • Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
    (05-19) 06:56 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes. They point to GOP stances on...

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  • Ship traffic for May 19
    Due to arrive Saturday SHIP FROM PORT YM New Jersey Los Angeles OAK Ever Shine Los Angeles OAK MOL Modern Los Angeles OAK Santa Bianca Portland, Ore. OAK Due to depart Saturday SHIP TO PORT Pantera Rosa Long Beach SFO...

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  • Ship traffic for May 20
    Due to arrive Sunday SHIP FROM PORT Global Forwarder Unknown SFO Celestial Wing Portland, Ore. RCH MSC Ornella Long Beach OAK CMA CGM Norma Long Beach OAK Cosco Felixstowe Long Beach OAK Zim Shenzhen Long Beach OAK Kobe...

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  • NTSB wants guidelines to limit driver distraction
    Number of the day 3,092 That's how many people were killed in car crashes related to driver distraction in 2010, according to the National Highway Safety Administration. Now automakers are selling vehicles enabled for...

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  • $1,501 - for a hot dog? It's for charity
    Number of the day $1,501 That's how much TheONEdog , the world's most expensive hot dog, sold for on May 11. Among the ingredients: premium beef, lobster tail, saffron aioli, gourmet potato bun and gold dust. The...

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  • Autodesk stock falls 13 percent
    SOFTWARE Autodesk stock falls 13 percent Autodesk, a maker of architectural and engineering software, fell the most in more than three years after providing a second-quarter earnings forecast that trailed some analysts'...

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  • Sony, theater chains in standoff over 3-D glasses
    Sony Pictures and major cinema operators are locked in a standoff over who will pay for 3-D glasses for "Men in Black 3," a major summer release opening Friday. Sony's film unit and theater executives are in discussions...

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  • Hires and promotions, May 20
    Labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips hired Katarzyna "Kasia" Nowak as an associate in its San Francisco office. Nowak previously worked at Brown Gitt Law Group of Los Angeles. MDialog named Jeff Clark chief...

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  • On Facebook IPO day, Nasdaq struggles
    Some investors who thought they had bought Facebook shares at the opening of trading were left without knowing for hours whether they had received the shares. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the...

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  • California unemployment dips to 10.9 percent
    California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in April to 10.9 percent, the state said Friday. The nation's unemployment rate also fell, to 8.1 percent. The state's jobless rate had dropped below 11 percent during the...

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  • Pet therapy popular with stressed college students
    Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off. Stanley rolls around on the floor and chews...

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  • Oil prices slide to 6-month low on Greece turmoil
    MARKETS Oil slides on Greece turmoil Oil dropped Friday to a six-month low in New York on concern that Greece will have to exit the euro system, compounding Europe's debt troubles and curbing fuel demand. Futures...

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  • Pinterest stake: Rakuten seeks to be global player
    Facebook isn't the only Silicon Valley social networking company making news. On Thursday, the same day Mark Zuckerberg's company announced it had raised $16 billion in the biggest IPO by a technology company, Japanese...

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  • Adaptive radio may upend wireless spectrum system
    James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a 2-foot fiberglass antenna. Cables snake from the antenna to a flat green box about the size of a vinyl record...

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  • Carmakers add Wi-Fi, Facebook, other tech features
    Drivers, start your cars and fire up your Wi-Fi. And please don't crash while tweeting or making dinner reservations on the interstate. That's the message from automakers that want to sell lots of vehicles enabled for...

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  • Yahoo in talks to sell 20% of Alibaba
    Yahoo is in talks to sell about 20 percent of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for about $7 billion, a deal that would cut by half its stake in China's largest e-commerce provider, a person with knowledge of the matter said....

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  • Pesticides in paint vaccinates homes against bugs
    For decades, nets and sprays have been the only effective methods for controlling the mosquitoes that cause malaria and dengue. Pilar Mateo thinks she can do better. The Spanish chemist has invented a way to embed...

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  • Mexican migrants seeking work head south instead
    Everardo Tejada had heard about the Mayan doomsday scenario, the one that supposedly predicts the world will end this year. With that in mind, he believed he didn't have much to lose in trying something out of the...

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  • SF's Mid-Market gets tech aid to lift its fortunes
    A public-private San Francisco group wants to harness the city's tech savvy and use it to improve the quality of life in the Mid-Market area. Creative Currency, a partnership among the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,...

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  • Cone Denim fills demand for authentic jeans
    In her 50 years as a denim weaver at Cone Denim's White Oak factory in Greensboro, N.C., Mildred "Mickey" Bolen has lived through layoffs, factory closures and changing fashions - from the denim for blue-collar workwear...

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  • JPMorgan's top-down role in risky investments
    Congress gets into the JPMorgan Chase affair Tuesday with the first in a series of hearings into how a federally insured bank incurred humongous losses on the kind of risky bets some, mistakenly, thought were a thing of...

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  • How Spam meat has survived spam e-mail and thrived
    At Hormel corporate headquarters in Austin, Minn., they call it "unwanted e-mail," never spam. It's been a sore subject ever since the mid-'90s, when chat-room users first flooded computer screens with the word "spam"...

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  • Secondary markets had a good fix on Facebook
    Some thoughts on the Facebook IPO: Secondary markets - where investors can buy stock in privately held companies from employees, former employees and early investors - did a pretty good job predicting Facebook's public...

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  • Blueseed to entrepreneurs: Your ship may come in
    Foreign tech entrepreneurs looking for easier ways to develop code may soon get a whole new way to ship. Specifically: a cruise ship. Blueseed, a four-person Sunnyvale startup backed by prominent investor Peter Thiel,...

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  • Russian-made Lada is ridiculed by Finns these days
    Risto Nykanen's Russian wife hates his hobby. She came from Leningrad, in the old Soviet Union, before its name reverted to St. Petersburg. Nykanen's hobby? He gathers and restores old Ladas, the boxy Soviet automobiles...

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  • Space travel beginning to be profitable
    It sounds like a routine event for NASA: At 4:55 a.m. Saturday, a rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and carry cargo - but no people - to the International Space Station. But if all goes as...

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  • Chevron tripped up by Brazil's oil politics
    On Nov. 7, something went wrong at a deep-sea oil well operated by Chevron 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. As a massive drill bit punctured reservoir N560, roughly 3,500 feet beneath the ocean floor, monitors...

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