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A resolution, passed Thursday, calls for an exemption for “audiovisual” industries and online media in a free-trade deal now under discussion with the United States.    

During a Senate subcommittee hearing on Apple’s avoidance of paying taxes, John McCain and others tried to point out how unfair the current system is to domestic corporations.    

Born overseas and educated in the United States, workers in the heart of the tech industry are in a kind of suspension as the Senate considers the immigration bill.    

Like a cicada swarm, the pronunciation debate over the word GIF roared back this week after a long period of incubation when Steve Wilhite, the format’s inventor, declared it should be pronounced “jif,” like the peanut butter.    

Being polite can help get some airline fees waived.    

Stocks regained ground in New York after global investors were rattled by signs of a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing and a potential easing of central bank support for the economy.    

The regulator of accounting firms said that Ernst & Young had been too willing to trust figures supplied by corporate executives and had failed to improve its procedures.    

Institutional Shareholder Services agreed to settle civil charges that it failed to prevent an employee from improperly selling confidential investor vote data.    

Apple-1 computers, built in Steve Jobs’s family garage, have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent auctions, a run-up reflecting the company’s mystique.    

The company, using money it raised last week in the markets, is repaying the government nine years before its loan was due.    

Joseph H. Boardman has led the government-owned railroad corporation to record growth in ridership and revenue since taking over in November 2008.    

JPMorgan Chase is redoubling its efforts to move beyond a big trading loss following a resounding shareholder endorsement to keep Jamie Dimon as both chairman and chief of the bank.    

The federal government has imposed a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of homes with mortgages owned or backed by the Federal Housing Administration in areas devastated by this week’s tornado.    

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, pushing back below the 350,000 mark that economists associate with a firming job market.    

The leveraged buyout caps the resurgence of rue21, a seller of cheap, trendy clothing for teenagers that had filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and re-emerged the next year. In recent years, its stock has surged.    

A stock retreat spread around the world, with European markets down around 2 percent. Wall Street was also down in early trading.    

The U.S. automaker's Australian unit will close its engine plant in Geelong and its vehicle assembly plant in Broadmeadows, with the loss of 1,200 jobs.    

The computer maker said it earned $127 million in the quarter as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded.    

All the talk of safeguards and international cooperation is likely to prove ineffectual if a huge international bank fails.    

Ford cited a strong currency and high costs for the decision to close its engine plant in Geelong and its vehicle assembly plant in Broadmeadows.