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Weak U.S. sales weigh on Hasbro, shares slip

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Hasbro Inc's quarterly results fell short of analysts' expectations, hurt by a dip in sales in its home market just as the second-largest U.S. toy company gears up for the all important holiday shopping season.
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BlackBerry Free Apps: Download RIM's $100 Outage Apology

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.
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Paris G20 finance chiefs closing remarks

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors put strong pressure on euro zone leaders at a two-day meeting in Paris to come up with a convincing solution to the bloc's debt crisis and avert the risk of a fresh global recession.
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Nanotube Yarns can Twist Like Muscles

Yarns, made of the tiny straws of carbon called nanotubes, have an astounding ability to twist as they contract, according to scientists. The effect, reported in Science, is similar to the action of muscles found in elephant trunks and squid tentacles.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner looks on during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Busan

G-20 Maintains Pressure on Eurozone Over Debt Crisis

The world's leading economies kept the pressure firmly on Europe to sort out its debt crisis on Saturday with the sense of urgency to be reflected in a communique at the end of a G-20 finance chiefs' meeting.
iPhone 4S customers in line

Opening Day for the iPhone 4S Starts Early

It was 68 degrees by 8:00 in the morning Friday, but the loyal fans who had lined up outside the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street in San Francisco had already braved (slightly) less hospitable temperatures.
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Canada factory sales surge

Canadian manufacturing sales rose almost three times higher than expected in August and offered more evidence that the economy is on track for modest growth in the third quarter after a slump in the second.
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S&P cuts Spain rating by one notch on weak growth

Standard & Poor's cut Spain's credit rating on Friday, sending the euro lower and underlining the challenges facing Europe's big powers as they prepare to meet G20 counterparts over the euro-zone debt crisis.
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RIM BlackBerry Server Outage Impact

Research In Motion Ltd. said a server problem has hampered accessing emails for three days by BlackBerry customers worldwide. RIM apologized for the service interruptions and delays and said that there was significant increase in service levels.
A man wearing a mask of Apple founder Steve Jobs stands in a line to buy an iPhone 4S in front of an Apple Store in Tokyo October 14, 2011.

Apple iPhone 4S Goes on Sale Worldwide [PHOTOS]

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S sales in stores began in Japan, Australia, France, UK, Germany, Canada and the U.S. on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime.
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S&P downgrades Spain by one notch on weak growth

Standard and Poor's cut Spain's credit rating on Friday, sending the euro lower and underlining the challenges facing Europe's big powers as they prepare to meet G20 counterparts over the euro-zone debt crisis.
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Euro zone crisis set to dominate G20 Paris meeting

G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads from the world's biggest economies meet in Paris on Friday needing to find a solution to a deepening euro zone debt crisis that has fanned fears of a global recession.
Billionaire financier George Soros speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York

George Soros: I'm not Funding Occupy Wall Street

George Soros says he isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement.
BlackBerry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin

BlackBerry Outrage Spreads Worldwide as Complaints Pour Out in Twitter

BlackBerry outages spread all over the world on Wednesday, prompting people to think whether RIM is in its death throes already. BlackBerry encountered an outage of email, messaging and Internet services since Monday in India, Europe and the Middle East. On Wednesday, it spread to Canada and the U.S.

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