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News Summary: European car sales hit 20-year low
News Summary: European car sales hit 20-year low
EUROPEAN CAR SALES: European car sales in May were the worst in 20 years as the region's recession drags on. More than half of European Union nations are in recession and U.S. automakers have been shuttering factories and cutting hours. RUBBER HITS ROAD: Passenger car demand dropped by 5.9 percent o

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News Summary: HP moves Bradley to strategy post
News Summary: HP moves Bradley to strategy post
THE MOVE: Hewlett-Packard Co. named executive Todd Bradley to a new position in charge of the company's strategy. Bradley will work with CEO Meg Whitman to improve HP's business in China and extend relationships with important partners worldwide. LAST ROLE: Bradley was in charge of HP's PC business

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Dreamworks strikes TV show deal in Germany
Dreamworks strikes TV show deal in Germany
Dreamworks Animation, the studio that is home to Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar, is making its way to Germany television under a deal with a children's television operator. Dreamworks and Super RTL announced a five-year television agreement Tuesday under which they will provide animated shows i

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Morris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
Morris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat." And he is a

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Hewlett-Packard puts Bradley in strategy role
Hewlett-Packard puts Bradley in strategy role
Todd Bradley, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on China, the company said Tuesday. HP said Bradley, 54, will be in charge of strategic growth initiatives and will work wit

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Report: Too many teachers, too little quality
Report: Too many teachers, too little quality
The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday. The National Council on Teacher Quality review is a scathing

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Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack
Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack
A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress. Eunice Huthart, of Liverpool, England, is the first person to sue the media company in the U

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AP IMPACT: Snowden's life surrounded by spycraft
AP IMPACT: Snowden's life surrounded by spycraft
In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation's capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for "No Such Agency." But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency's looming presence was both

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Earnings Preview: Oracle aims to win back Wall St.
Earnings Preview: Oracle aims to win back Wall St.
Business software maker Oracle Corp. will get a chance to win back the confidence of disillusioned investors with the release of its latest quarterly results. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: The report, due out Thursday after the stock market closes, comes amid mounting worries about Oracle's ability to grow whi

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Facebook CEO meets SKorean president
Facebook CEO meets SKorean president
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Park's office said Zuckerberg assured the South Korean leader that Facebook would continue to invest in the country, a

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News Summary: Netflix cuts TV deal with DreamWorks
News Summary: Netflix cuts TV deal with DreamWorks
SHREK TV?: Netflix says it is ordering 300 hours of new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation over multiple years starting in 2014, calling the deal its biggest yet for original first-run content. SHIFTING SPEND: Netflix says it'll limit spending on original shows to about 10 percent of its annual $2 b

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A look at original shows by online video services
A look at original shows by online video services
Netflix's deal to air 300 hours of original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a multi-year deal is part of a trend in which online streaming video services including Amazon and Hulu are increasingly producing original shows. The new content often stacks up in length and quality to

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Rambus and STMicroelectronics announce settlement
Rambus and STMicroelectronics announce settlement
Memory chip designer Rambus Inc. and STMicroelectronics, one of Europe's largest chipmakers, announced a licensing agreement Monday and said they have resolved all litigation between them. The companies said their agreement will allow STMicroelectronics to use more security measures in multimedia c

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McCain presses Obama on secret emails
McCain presses Obama on secret emails
Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at work, saying that Congress cannot tell the American people what its government is doing if it creates a "secret alternate communications network." The l

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How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing — in explicit detail — how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how

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Google settles suit, clears way for stock split
Google settles suit, clears way for stock split
Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The settlement announced Monday came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court trial that threatened to c

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News Summary: Apple details gov't data requests
News Summary: Apple details gov't data requests
DISCLOSURE: Apple Inc. said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. BACKGROUND: The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to nation

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Israel picks team to build high-speed web network
Israel picks team to build high-speed web network
An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network. The committee, which includes representatives from the government and the state-owned Israel Electric Corp., announced its decision Monday. It said the consortium includ

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News Summary: Police chief on criminals online
News Summary: Police chief on criminals online
SOCIAL FAUX PAS: If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 49,000 Facebook fans.

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Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse. The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by

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