IBT Staff Reporter

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting big on new technologies to protect computer networks, hoping they will profit from a spate of high-profile cyber attacks on corporate and government bodies.

NBC's Days of our Lives is set to have to a new writing team, cast editions, and a new producing team under executive producer Ken Corday.

Workers at four New York City area Macy's Inc stores, including its Herald Square flagship, could strike late on Wednesday for the first time since 1972 should they fail to get a new contract from the department store chain.

According to a home listing report by Coldwell Banker, the most affordable housing market in the United States is none other than picturesque Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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The market for making phone calls over the Internet is set to more than double to $40 billion within five years, researchers said.

Driver Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Jan. 20, 2012, NASCAR announced yesterday.

Stocks sank on Wednesday as Greek debt woes, U.S. data and disappointing profit forecasts fueled bearish sentiment, putting the market back on its downtrend after a two-day rally.

A federal appeals court in New York threw out part of the conviction of former Credit Suisse Group AG broker Eric Butler for misleading clients about the safety of auction-rate securities he sold.

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Garmin agreed to buy Germany-based navigation firm Navigon earlier this week mostly to expand its business with carmakers in Europe, a senior company official told Reuters in an interview.

Blackstone Group LP was sued for allegedly siphoning $2.1 billion from Extended Stay America Inc when it sold the hotel chain in a leveraged buyout that preceded its bankruptcy, according to court documents.

The 111th U.S. Open begins Thursday at Congressional Country Club in Maryland.

Apparently, classical Greece and its traditions of philosophy and democracy, are alive and well with Athens' citizens, although the state is still searching for Plato's philosopher-king, one blogger writes of today's protests outside the Greek Parliament.

U.S. industrial output edged up just 0.1 percent in May as supply chain disruptions from the earthquake in Japan disrupted auto production for a second straight month, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

Kim Clijsters, the second-ranked women's tennis player in the world, had to withdraw from this month's Wimbledon tournament due to a recurring foot injury.

The weakening activity and fading sunspots in the sun and the activated volcanoes suggest that history truly repeats itself - the Little Ice Age is coming back.

Canada Post locks out 48,000 workers across the country late Tuesday, HST officials to meet on postal lockout.

Pandora Media Inc opened 25 percent above its $16 IPO price per share in its stock market debut on Wednesday as investors flocked to get a piece of the latest Internet start up, even though it has yet to turn a profit.

U.S. industrial output edged up just 0.1 percent in May as supply chain disruptions from the earthquake in Japan disrupted auto production for a second straight month, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

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Stocks slid on Wednesday as Greek debt woes, U.S. data and disappointing profit forecasts fueled bearish sentiment, putting the market back on its downtrend after a two-day rally.

The economy is facing a troubling mix of higher prices and weak growth.

U.S. core consumer inflation rose more than expected in May to post its largest increase in nearly three years, lifted by steep rises in motor vehicle and apparel prices.

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Two men suspected of plotting to blow up synagogues and other buildings in New York City pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

The rich-world's economic prospects have darkened slightly, a Reuters poll of economists showed, with new signs of a slowdown in the United States compounding fears about the poor fiscal health of Western economies.

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting big on new technologies to protect computer networks, hoping they will profit from a spate of high-profile cyber attacks on corporate and government bodies.

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