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Netflix resumes normal shipping after 3-day glitch

August 15, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. resumed normal shipments Friday after its distribution centers were crippled by three days of severe technical problems, a spokesman said.


Netflix shipping centers slammed by problems

August 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. said Thursday that major technical problems over the past three days have severely limited the number of DVDs it could send out.


Qwest, union keep talking as contract expires

August 17, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Qwest Communications International Inc. and members of its largest union kept negotiating Sunday as a labor contract expired.


Qwest, unions agree on new contracts

August 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Qwest Communications International Inc. and negotiators for its largest union have tentatively agreed on a contract about a day after the previous one expired, both sides said Monday.


EBay in talks to buy minority stake in Gmarket

August 13, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- The online auction company eBay Inc. said Wednesday it is in talks to buy a minority stake in the South Korean online marketplace operator Gmarket.


Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions

August 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Qwest Communications International Inc. has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day after a labor contract had expired, both sides said early Monday.


Qwest union contract expires Saturday

August 15, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- The labor contract with the largest union at Qwest Communications International Inc. expires Saturday, little more than a week before the company is to provide phone and Internet service for the Democratic National ...


Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members

August 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn.


HP posts 3Q profit jump; faces stiff competition

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(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge - stiffer personal-computer competition - that ...


Electronic Arts won't extend Take-Two deadline

August 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. may be retracting its hostile bid for smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., but a deal - and a friendly one at that - is more likely than ever.


Taiwan's AU Optronics to build three new flat panel plants

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Taiwan's leading flat panel maker AU Optronics Corp. plans to build three plants at a cost of many billions of dollars, a science park official and a newspaper said Wednesday.