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All seven people aboard a plane being used by Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE: KGC) died when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport in the African nation of Mauritania, officials of the gold mining company said Thursday.

United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL) is joining hands with Boeing Co. (BA) to save on its fuel costs by replacing outdated and obsolete planes.

When San Franciso-based Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), releases quarterly results Friday morning, analysts will be examining the corporate filing for hints as to the state of the U.S. housing market.

When New York-based banking behemoth JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE:JPM) reports its financial results for the latest quarter on Friday morning, the market's collective attention will be focused on just one figure: the one finally detailing how much JPMorgan lost as a result of its ill-advised strategy of putting huge hedge bets on the CDS derivatives market.

Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, acknowledged a security breach of a Singapore-based server from which a hacker group may have extracted log-ins for as many as 450,000 user accounts.

Australian online electronics retailer Kogan says Microsoft Corporation (NYSE: MSFT) rectified an issue that knocked the company's home page off the Seattle-based software giant's Bing search engine.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) narrowly retained its spot as No. 1 in global PC sales but China?s Lenovo Group (Pink: LNVGY) is within striking distance, market researcher Gartner Group (NYSE: IT) reported.

Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324) is buying the British firm Aegis Group Plc (AGS) for £3.16 billion ($4.9 billion) in a deal that will give Aegis stakeholders $3.73 per share.

Airbus has won about $16.9 billion worth of business for a total of 115 aircraft, the European aerospace giant said Thursday.

PSA Peugeot-Citroën, France's ailing carmaker, said Thursday that plummeting demand for its vehicles has prompted it to close a factory that employs 3,000 people.

The Daily's days might be numbered.

No surprise: shares of the biggest search engine providers rose again in June while the weaker ones fell, market researcher comScore Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) said.

General Motors Company's (NYSE: GM) dual European brands, Opel and Vauxhall, released Wednesday the first teases of the new ADAM city car, which seems to have been designed to compete directly with the popular Fiat 500 and BMW's Mini.

On Tuesday, Gotta Be Mobile released exclusive photos of what it believes to be an engineering sample of the iPhone 5 design, which only helps to validate earlier rumors, reports, and even photos and schematics of the phone. The features and specs from this iPhone metal mockup actually perfectly match up with those earlier photos and schematics released in May.

Now that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, has entered the tablet market with its $199 Nexus 7, how much do the components cost?

Aircraft maker Airbus SAS has scrapped its goal of selling 30 A380 superjumbo jets this year as airline appetites for jumbo jetliners isn't quite as big as the European aerospace giant had expected.

CaptureToCloud, a year-old web developer, announced a new ?social workspace? for all kinds of digital content in the Cloud that?s tightly integrated with services from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine.

Exactly how small would an iPad Mini be? Apple will neither confirm nor deny the existence of a mini tablet -- or any of its products, for that matter -- which is why any time photos of iPhone or iPad components surface, it's a big deal. On Tuesday night, Gotta Be Mobile posted exclusive photos of what it believes to be an engineering sample of the iPad Mini design, which reveals many possible features of this tiny tablet.

Bloomberg Sports will tap into the lucrative international markets after partnering with IMG.

Wednesday marks the day all of us sweating through the heat wave have waited for: 7-Eleven's (711) free Slurpee day! On July 11, participating 7-Eleven stores nationwide and in Canada will hand out free 7.11 ounce Slurpee drinks, its own signature sweet-flavored frozen slushee beverage, until 7pm as a promotion for its birthday celebration.

Financial professionals reeled Wednesday after the now-collapsed futures merchant PFG (Peregrine Financial Group Inc.), whose troubles bear an unnerving similarity to MF Global's woes, left as much as $200 million unaccounted for and PFG clients kicking themselves for ignoring the warning signs.

Penny Arcade is hoping a successful Kickstarter campaign will give its users a better experience.

It's common knowledge that parking in New York is a miserable experience. Finding spots can be frustrating, parking is expensive, street-side parking notices are inscrutable and you have to move your car often.

Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has been saying the same thing for weeks: Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain. Despite massive layoffs, dramatic drop-offs in market share and a rapidly decaying portfolio for investors, Heins firmly believes that RIM's best is yet to come.

The late King Hussein of Jordan titled his autobiography ?Uneasy Lies the Head.? That could be the title Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), the ailing BlackBerry developer, could use for his book, too.

Lady Gaga finally launched her social media platform after months of beta testing.

The world's top three jet engine makers are accelerating their research and development (R&D) efforts to cash in on a booming global aviation market.

Five months after its unveiling in early February, Apple is finally ready to release its next-gen operating system for the Mac. On Monday, the company released the golden master of OS 10.8 Mountain Lion to developers so they can begin submitting their Mountain Lion apps before the platform launches on the Mac App Store later this month for $19.99.

Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is shedding its stake in A&E Television Networks for $3.03 billion to its joint-venture partners Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Hearst Corp.