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Providence Equity might buy wireless giant
Alltel Corp., a Little Rock, Ark.-based wireless service provider with nearly 12 million customers in 35 states, is in talks with three competing buyout...
New home sales in U.S. rise 2.6%</br> in March to rate of...
Nationwide purchases of new homes rose in March, for the first time this year, as sales incentives and unusually warm weather brought out more...
Ground Zero developer Silverstein <br> expects to attract brokerage tenants
NEW YORK – Developer Larry Silverstein said he expects to lease space at the three towers he’s building at the World Trade Center...
Google now has world’s most-visited Web sites
Google Inc. has passed Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. – for the first time – to become the owner of the...
CVS sued for allegedly tossing records in trash
CVS/Caremark Corp., the second-largest U.S. drugstore chain, has been sued by the Texas attorney general for allegedly dumping thousands of prescription records and credit...
Most Americans expect recession in the next year
Most Americans expect a recession within a year and disapprove of President George W. Bush’s handling of the economy even though the unemployment rate...
E.U. emissions-cut aims to spur U.S., China
The European Union’s vote last month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent isn’t just meant to be an isolated action, but rather...
Senators predicts China currency bill will pass
Two U.S. senators who pushed legislation last year for tariffs on Chinese imports predicted last week that a new measure aimed at forcing China...
CVS and Caremark vote to approve $27B merger
Shareholders of Caremark Rx Inc., the second-largest U.S. drug-benefits manager, approved the $27 billion acquisition by pharmacy chain CVS Corp. on March 16 at...
Citing controversy, Wal-Mart<br> abandons bank plan
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has scrapped plans to open its own bank, ending a two-year controversy that roiled financial-services companies that feared direct competition from...
