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Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs is back to work following a near six-month medical leave, the company said on Monday.Steve is back to work, a company spokesman said.

Stocks gained on Wednesday after software maker Oracle's results beat expectations and durable goods orders jumped unexpectedly, giving more hope that the economy is rebounding.

U.S. stocks rose broadly on Wednesday as durable goods orders jumped unexpectedly, reinforcing the belief the economy was healing, while quarterly results from software maker Oracle boosted technology shares.

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is recovering well from a liver transplant in Memphis and has an “excellent prognosis,” according to a statement by the Tennessee hospital where the procedure was done.

Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has an excellent prognosis, the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday.

Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has an excellent prognosis, the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday.

Ford Motor Company, Nissan North America Inc, and Tesla Motors Inc were the first automakers to be granted federal loans totaling $8 billion to develop electric cars and fuel-efficient vehicles made in the United States.

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. confirmed that it will build electric vehicles in the United States on a mass scale, beginning in 2011 or 2012 just ahead of an announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy granted a $1.6 billion loan to the automaker to produce electric cars and battery packs at its manufacturing complex in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Ford Motor Co and Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd will receive nearly $8 billion combined in U.S. government loans to spur development of fuel efficient vehicles, the U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed up for work on Monday and was spotted leaving the main corporate campus in Cupertino, California, a Reuters witness said.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed up for work on Monday and was spotted leaving the main corporate campus in Cupertino, California, a Reuters witness said.

Nissan Motor Co. plans to invest up to $1 billion to produce electric vehicles in a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee to tap U.S. government funds for green vehicles, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.

Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple for the past six months, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago but will still return to work at the end of June, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

Package delivery giant and U.S. economic bellwether FedEx Corp said the next two quarters will be extremely difficult as the recession and higher fuel prices bite into its bottom line, but said the pace of economic decline appears to be slowing.

FedEx Corp reported a larger quarterly loss on Wednesday and gave an outlook well below Wall Street estimates for the current period, citing the recession's impact on package volumes and rising fuel costs that will hit its bottom line.

The patients are gone and so are the protesters. Once the site of daily anti-abortion picketing, the Kansas clinic run by murdered doctor George Tiller is busy only with workers shutting down the facility.

Two of the most talked about teen star sensations, Miley Cyrus and Nick Jonas have reconnected after their break up in December of 2007, Cyrus told a radio station on Friday.

U.S. bankruptcy filings rose in the first quarter to the highest since 2005, government data show, as rising unemployment, falling housing prices and tight credit made it harder for people to hold off their creditors.

Nissan North America on Tuesday announced a partnership with the City of Seattle on Wednesday to promote the development of electric car infrastructure, as it plans similar promotions in other cities and regions ahead of its own car launch in 2010.

Whirlpool Corp reported a surprise quarterly profit on Monday as cost-cutting efforts helped the world's biggest appliance maker weather a slump in global sales, and it backed its 2009 profit forecast.

Gov. Phil Bredesen from Tennessee made a test-drive of Nissan's electric car on Wednesday at the automaker's headquarters in Franklin, a suburb in Nashville urging the construction of chargins stations.