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India Q3 GDP Growth Slows Down to 6.1%

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India's economy grew at 6.1 percent in the October-December quarter, the slowest rate of growth in 11 quarters, official data released on Wednesday showed.

India's Economic Growth Weakest in 3 Years; Q3 GDP Grows at 6.1 Percent

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India's economic growth slowed to its weakest annual pace in almost three years in the three months to December, as high interest rates and rising input costs constrained investment and manufacturing. GDP rose 6.1 percent in October to December compared with a year earlier, a lower-than-expected increase, figures from the statistics office showed.
Apple iPad 3

iPad 3 Release: Will Apple Plug Loophole that Allows Apps to Steal Photos Before March 7 Debut?

Apple apps on the iPhone, iPad and iTouch have been attacked for stealing users' contact info, and now it's been discovered they've even had access to users' photos. Given the Feb. 28 Apple announcement about a March 7 press conference, potential iPad 3 buyers may want to know how this latest controversy will affect Apple's newest product launch. There's a loophole that's been discovered for when people give an app permission to access location information.
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2012 Election

Mitt Romney Braces for Crucial Michigan Poll

Mitt Romney faces a day of reckoning on Tuesday when Michigan votes to either grant him a big victory in the Republican presidential nomination battle or hand him a humiliating defeat.
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Interview: China's Xiaomi Hopes for Revolution in

Chinese handset maker Xiaomi Technology is looking to raise more funds within the next year or two to boost production and sees revenue in the future coming from software applications rather than handset sales, the firm's president told Reuters on Monday.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 24, 2012.

Wall Street Rally Will be Put to the Test Next Week

A rally on Wall Street will be put to the test next week, with the S&P 500 index at its highest closing level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008 and the European Central Bank about to flood the financial markets with a new wave of cheap money.
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January Business Borrowing up from Year Ago

Borrowing by U.S. companies to buy equipment jumped in January from a year ago, though it slid from December's rush to close loans before year-end, and credit quality improved to pre-recession levels, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association said on Friday.
U.S. AirForce

U.S. Air Force Dumps 18,000 iPad Order Plans: Why?

Earlier in February, the media reported that the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy thousands of Apple iPad tablets to replace the conventional flight bags carried by pilots. Nobody knows the exact number of iPads, the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy. Some say that the figure is 3,000. But to replace the flight bag of all the pilots in U.S. Air Force, 18,000 is still a small figure. That means a big business for Apple.
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Employees and Leaders Honor Late Micron CEO

Thousands of Micron Technology employees, industry figures and community leaders paid tribute to the chipmaker's late CEO, Steve Appleton, at a memorial in Boise on Thursday.
The iPhone 5 prototype design from Ciccarese is in no way what Apple is planning for its next-generation iPhone. Ciccarese loves to make concept designs for devices that don't exist yet, such as the iTV, the 8-inch iPad Mini, and even an uber-thin iP

Apple iPhone 5 Release: Ciccarese Unveils Beautiful New Teardrop Design [PHOTOS]

While Apple is not expected to unveil the iPhone 5 anytime soon, but that doesn't mean fans can't dream about what the next-generation iPhone could possibly look like. Fanning the flame that is iPhone hype, the imaginative minds at Ciccarese Design, led by Federico Ciccarese, have released a new mock-up of a teardrop-shaped iPhone 5, which is really quite beautiful.

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