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A surge in high-profile hacker attacks this year is demonstrating the limits of an older generation of security software from Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc., putting pressure on them to revamp their product lines.
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Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s biggest insurer by market value, said first-half profit rose 25 percent on increased revenue at its Asian and U.S. units.
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his Federal Reserve colleagues are preparing to meet next week as two-year Treasury yields at a record low signal a U.S. economy on the knife’s edge between growth and contraction.
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China’s stocks fell, capping the benchmark index’s worst week since May, as global equities markets plunged on concern slumping U.S. growth and Europe’s debt crisis will push the world economy into recession.
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U.K. house prices increased in July as record-low borrowing costs helped support demand for residential property.
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European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet may be forced to step up his fight against the sovereign debt crisis after a resumption of bond purchases yesterday failed to halt a rout in Italy and Spain.
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Mattel Inc. must pay MGA Entertainment Inc. $137 million in fees and costs for defending a copyright action over MGA’s Bratz dolls, a federal judge ruled.
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Thailand’s Parliament selected Yingluck Shinawatra as the country’s first female leader after her election win last month, clearing the way for the King to endorse the sister of deposed former ruler Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Aguas de Portugal SGPS SA, the Portuguese state holding company for the water industry, may post net income of more than 100 million euros ($142 million) in 2011, Diario Economico said, citing Chairman Pedro Serra.
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The number of new HIV infections has surged among young, black homosexual males even as the overall spread of the virus that causes AIDS stabilized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Bloomberg's Rich Jaroslovsky reviews Google Inc.'s new social networking service, Google+, and its potential challenge to Facebook Inc.
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Spend a romantic evening with Joshua Bell as he performs Max Bruch’s impassioned First Violin Concerto.
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The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web.
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Sonia Gandhi, the latest member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to lead India’s ruling Congress party, is recovering in an intensive care unit after surgery overseas for an undisclosed medical condition.
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