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• Wall Street pares gains, Nasdaq turns negative (Reuters)
• Teva to buy Cephalon for $6.8 billion, tops Valeant (Reuters)
• Manufacturing holds up despite slower growth (Reuters)
• Chrysler reports first quarterly net profit since 2009 (Reuters)
• EchoStar, Dish to pay TiVo to settle dispute (Reuters)
• Nasdaq/ICE may go hostile for NYSE (Reuters)
• Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point (AP)
• Summary Box: Humana reports 1st-qtr results (AP)
• EU official sees Portugal deal in coming days (AP)
• U.S. mulls making more firms pay corporate tax: group (Reuters)
• Greece gets tough on tax; appoints terror judge (AP)
• Oil prices rise again as dollar weakens (AP)
• An Empty Offer From the Super-Rich (The Daily Beast)
• Saab secures funds, aims to resume production (AP)
• Hashable: What LinkedIn Would Look Like If It Were Built Now (BusinessWeek)

Wall Street pares gains, Nasdaq turns negative (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:58 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. stocks pared gains and the Nasdaq turned negative on Monday, pressured by weakness in technology shares.

Teva to buy Cephalon for $6.8 billion, tops Valeant (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:32 AM PDT Reuters - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd struck a deal to acquire U.S. specialty drugmaker Cephalon Inc for nearly $7 billion, topping an unsolicited bid by Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc and boosting its brand-name drug business.

Manufacturing holds up despite slower growth (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:54 AM PDT Reuters - The pace of expansion in U.S. manufacturing slowed in April for a second straight month but was brisker than expected, data showed on Monday, a sign the sector was holding up despite slower national growth.

Chrysler reports first quarterly net profit since 2009 (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:53 AM PDT Reuters - Chrysler Group LLC reported its first quarterly net profit since emerging from bankruptcy nearly two years ago, helped by a revamped lineup of cars and trucks as well as higher vehicle prices.

EchoStar, Dish to pay TiVo to settle dispute (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2011 07:12 AM PDT Reuters - Dish Network and EchoStar Corp will pay TiVo Inc $500 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit involving TiVo's video recording technology, putting an end to a long and costly legal battle.

Nasdaq/ICE may go hostile for NYSE (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:57 AM PDT Reuters - Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange are poised to go hostile in their bid for NYSE Euronext after shareholders ratcheted up pressure on the Big Board parent to get a better deal.

Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2011 09:55 AM PDT AP - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of "economic liberty" that young Americans face today as a "flash point of history" in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it.

Summary Box: Humana reports 1st-qtr results (AP) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:43 AM PDT AP - THE RESULTS: First-quarter net income at Humana Inc. increased 22 percent due partly to enrollment gains in its Medicare offerings and slower growth in health care use in employer-based insurance plans.

EU official sees Portugal deal in coming days (AP) Posted: 02 May 2011 09:02 AM PDT AP - A preliminary deal on an international bailout for Portugal is likely to be announced in the coming days, a European Union official said Monday.

U.S. mulls making more firms pay corporate tax: group (Reuters) Posted: 01 May 2011 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration is considering a plan to force more businesses to pay the corporate income tax, an industry group said, in an overhaul package that could be unveiled as early as this month.

Greece gets tough on tax; appoints terror judge (AP) Posted: 02 May 2011 06:48 AM PDT AP - Greece's cash-strapped government promised Monday to raise an additional euro11.8 billion ($17.5 billion) by the end of 2013 via a crackdown on tax evasion, and indicated it could seek a second extension of its bailout loan repayment.

Oil prices rise again as dollar weakens (AP) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:51 AM PDT AP - Oil prices are rising again after falling below $111 a barrel on news that U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

An Empty Offer From the Super-Rich (The Daily Beast) Posted: 01 May 2011 11:59 AM PDT The Daily Beast - It’s easy for Mark Zuckerberg to say he’s "cool" with raising income-tax rates. Because it won’t affect him. In this week’s Newsweek, Gary Rivlin takes on America’s phony tax martyrs.

Saab secures funds, aims to resume production (AP) Posted: 02 May 2011 08:56 AM PDT AP - Spyker Cars NV said Monday it has secured $88 million (euro59.1 million) in short-term funding for Saab and aims to restart production at the troubled automaker's plant within a week.

Hashable: What LinkedIn Would Look Like If It Were Built Now (BusinessWeek) Posted: 02 May 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - The name doesn't tell you a lot about what it does, and if you see the hash tags on Twitter you might think it's just about "hooking up," but Hashable has a serious business purpose, says founder and Chief Executive Mike Yavonditte. It is about helping users -- particularly business users -- keep track of their connections, both professional and personal, and about creating a real-time social graph around those connections. In a lot of ways, the app and the service are what LinkedIn might look like if it were being created now. ...

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