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Google search engine infrastructure dubbed as Caffeine is down, a possible come back is set this afternoon. “DON'T PANIC”, said Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer of Google.

BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc , the world's largest miner, reported a 30 percent slide in annual profit excluding writedowns, its first fall in seven years, pummeled by a slump in metals prices and demand.

Stocks fell on Tuesday after a prominent banking analyst warned the sector's fundamentals have yet to improve, and an unexpectedly large drop in wholesale inventories raised worries about an economic recovery.

Stocks slid on Tuesday after a prominent banking analyst warned that the sector's fundamentals have not yet improved, sparking a sell-off in bank shares.

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.

Nortel Networks said on Monday its chief executive will step down immediately and its board will shrink from nine directors to three as the bankrupt telecom equipment maker works to sell off all of its major assets.

Nortel Networks said on Monday its chief executive will step down immediately and its board will shrink from nine directors to three as the bankrupt telecom equipment maker sheds major assets.

Nortel Networks said on Monday its chief executive would step down immediately and its board would shrink from nine directors to just three as the bankrupt telecom equipment maker sheds its major assets.

The distributed denial of service attack on Thursday that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and several Google sites may have been politically motivated.

On Thursday evening, the Microsoft Xbox Live service was unreachable, joining the likes of Twitter and Facebook which also went down this week, crippling millions of its users around the world.

U.S. stock index futures trimmed losses on Friday ahead of key monthly jobs data that could provide clues on the direction of the economy and the sustainability of a recent run-up.

Oil edged down on Friday from a six-week high as markets looked to U.S. July employment data for clues on whether the United States could be emerging from recession.

Oil edged down on Friday from a six-week high as markets looked to upcoming U.S. July employment data for clues on whether the U.S. economy could be emerging from recession.

Oil edged down on Friday from a six-week high in the previous session, as markets awaited U.S. July employment data later on Friday, a major indicator of how well the U.S. economy is doing pulling out of recession.

Energy traders and companies will face fines of up to $1 million a day if they manipulate oil markets, the Federal Trade Commission ruled on Thursday in a crackdown on fraud that they said causes widespread damage to the U.S. economy.

Twitter, which shut millions of users from using the online messaging service on Thursday morning, has come back online. However, efforts to defend against and investigate the attack continue, according to the company's blog.

Twitter, the popular Internet micro-blogging service, said it is fending off a cyber attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours on Thursday.

Twitter Inc., the fast-growing microblogging service, was inaccessible Thursday morning, struck by a denial-of-service attack, the company said on its status blog. Meanwhile, Facebook's site has been sluggish and unresponsive on Thursday.

Twitter is down because of a denial-of-service attack and Facebook's been sluggish and unresponsive on Thursday.

Comcast Corp , the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, reported higher quarterly profit on Thursday due to improved cost controls and a tax gain, but lost basic video subscribers amid the weak economy and competition from phone and satellite operators.