HP profit jumps on cost-cutting, services strength

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  • HP profit jumps on cost-cutting, services strength
    HP profit jumps on cost-cutting, services strength

    Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, proof that cost-cutting and a push into rival IBM Corp.'s stronghold of technology services is helping the company absorb a falloff in sales in most of its major divisions.

  • Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline
    Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

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  • Google scoops up display ad specialist Teracent

    Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.

  • Canada woman to fight insurance co. over Facebook

    A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.

  • Retailers look to stretch out Cyber Monday push

    Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday — a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving — and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.

  • South Koreans to get Apple's iPhone this week
    South Koreans to get Apple's iPhone this week

    Apple Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets.

  • Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks

    While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

  • Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy

    The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films.

  • Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

    A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.

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