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PC giant Hewlett Packard announced some significant organizational changes to better realign CEO Leo Apotheker's direct reports with his new strategic vision.

The Oakland Athletics are marred with injuries, a coaching change, and a seemingly insurmountable losing streak that may be their downfall for the 2011 season as the A's wallow in last place in their division.

Google, looking to make a greater impact in the display ad industry, bought Admeld for $400 miliion.

The Maple Group has launched a hostile bid to block the proposed merger between the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, TMX Group, and the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

AUCKLAND -- Neither formal business text nor magazine, it is actually a joyous combination of both, Jonathan Rice writes of Nicholas Beames' new book, which he says contains genuinely useful advice.

From South America to Oceania to Africa, here's everything you need to know about the 2011 Ski Season in the Southern Hemisphere!

The new chief executive of bailed out British bank Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE: LYG) is planning to cut another 15,000 jobs, on top of the 28,000 positions the bank has already eliminated since it merged with HBOS in early 2009.

Social networking site Facebook tried to discredit search giant Google by hiring a public relation firm to spread anti-Google stories across media and encouraging outlets to examine allegations of Google’s privacy practices, said a report.

Software giant Microsoft has announced the release of the new SoC (System-on-chip) processor for the new Xbox 360 250GB Slim Kinect-ready model

'30 Rock's' Tracy Morgan issued an apology for his June 3 stand-up anti-gay jokes stating that he's not a 'hateful person' and that he 'clearly went too far.'

Firefighters and crews worked to minimize the damage from massive Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona on Friday, as charred areas grew to more than 600 square miles and claimed its first injuries and homes destroyed, while endangering thousands more.

The former Irish finance minister Brian Lenihan has died from pancreatic cancer.

As Congress rejected a delay in the implementation of debit card regulations for further study, RBC Capital Markets anticipates near term weakness in the shares of MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) as it believes the consensus was for the delay to be approved.

A proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site is facing threat to its green cover which may also lead to extinction of the Amur tiger with the shrinking habitat in Russia’s Primorsky Province.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda emerged on Thursday as a leading candidate to replace the increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan, possibly this month.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Google Apps as the agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world.

Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she is planning to quit her job next year to become president of the World Bank, a State Department spokesman said.

The Yankees and the Mets are both carrying dead wood at this point. The fans are getting restless and the media smells blood as the hole gets deeper for Jason Bay and Jorge Posada. How long will the management of the two MLB teams absorb the poor performances of their weakest links?

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The Netherlands said it will postpone until next year any decision on allowing Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen zone (which would allow for passport-free travel between the Schengen states).

Google will face charges pressed by the patent management company Isys Technologies for copyright infringement. Isys alleges that the terms Chromebook and Chromebox, brand names of devices that use Google Chrome OS, copies from its Chromium PC brand.