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Research In Motion's Blackberry users in North America suffered another outage with their e-mail service, just a week after another outage hit the company. Late Tuesday night, RIM confirmed that its BlackBerry service had suffered its second e-mail outage in five days.

Web hosting company Rackspace is experiencing networking problems on Friday afternoon, which left many the Websites it host to go down as well.

General Motors Co said it would begin shutting down its money-losing Saab brand after last-ditch talks to sell it to a small Dutch sports car builder collapsed on Friday.

U.S. copper futures ended with sharp losses on Thursday as a stronger tone in the dollar sparked a bearish drag across the broader complex, and analysts said the shift in momentum could pull prices of the red metal back down toward $3.00 a lb.

Two rules in venture capital: VC firms tend to give money to entrepreneurs who've gotten venture capital before. VCs also like to fund companies that already have customers and revenue. Now that the economy's in a slump, these rules are doubly true.

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys led the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a fifth week on Thursday with Empire State of Mind.

General Motors Co will wind down operations at Saab, its money-losing Swedish unit, after a last-ditch attempt to sell it to small Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars failed, the automaker said on Friday.

General Motors will wind down operations at its loss-making Swedish unit Saab after an attempt to sell it to small Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars failed.

Twitter users who tried to log into their accounts on Thursday were unable to access their pages, but were instead greeted with the words Iranian Cyber Army after the popular micro-blogging site suffered a hacking attack.

FedEx Corp forecast on Thursday profit for the current quarter below analysts' expectations, raising concerns that the U.S. economy was not recovering as fast as had been expected, and sending its shares down more than 6 percent.

Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry phone, said Thursday that it has fixed the problem that left BlackBerry users unable to send or receive emails on their phones.

UAL Corp , parent of United Airlines, on Thursday said it expects its consolidated passenger unit revenue to be down between 6.25 percent and 7.25 percent in the fourth quarter.

Rachelle YounglaiU.S. companies will have to disclose their compensation practices for all employees and their board members' qualifications under rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

Boeing Co completed the first test flight of its new lightweight carbon and titanium Dreamliner, but the flight was cut short because of bad weather.

U.S. bank regulators on Tuesday approved a watered-down version of a proposal to jump-start the securitization market while boosting standards to avoid abuses that contributed to the economic crisis.

Global talks on climate change still lack clarity and could even break down over serious outstanding issues with only three days to go before the world has to agree an outcome, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.

Wall Street was headed for a lower open on Tuesday as producer prices rose more than expected, igniting fears of inflationary pressures, and a gauge of manufacturing activity in New York state unexpectedly plunged in December.

U.S. copper futures remained lower into Thursday's close, after setting a fresh two-week low, with a rise in the dollar inspiring more investors to sell and take end-of-year profits, traders said.

European gasoline prices fell on Thursday, pressured by swelling stocks and a lack of export opportunities to the key U.S. market.

Government bonds in Australia and South Korea fell on Thursday as investors pushed forward expectations for interest rate rises in 2010 because of bullish growth views, while Asian stocks slid on year-end profit taking.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell slightly on Wednesday on concerns about foreign debt and a weak outlook in the tech sector, but positive wholesale inventory data limited losses.