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Teen YouTube sensation Rebecca Black sings gleefully about the weekend in her Web video hit Friday, -- and now the 13 year-old has something even more exciting to crow about.

The economic recovery is so sluggish that the Federal Reserve needs to keep easy money policies in place while the government comes to grip with its debts, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

The intense global interest in Canada's resource sector will drive the Canadian dollar even higher.

The growth outlook for major industrialized economies is improving with Germany and the United States leading the recovery, the OECD's leading indicator for February showed on Monday.

Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP) announced an agreement to acquire American Medical Systems (AMS) (Nasdaq: AMMD), a maker of medical devices to treat pelvic conditions, for $30 per share or $2.9 billion in cash, to boost its core urology franchise.

Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) touched a new life-time high of $55.17 on Thursday. The company reported a 25 percent growth in fourth quarter earnings, which came in ahead of its expectations as well as Street view.

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Telus Corp will begin building a next-generation wireless network in major Canadian cities in the second half of the year, the telecom company said on Wednesday.

Deutsche Boerse has no plans to raise its $10.2 billion bid for NYSE Euronext , confident the benefits of its deal will trump a higher offer from rival U.S. exchanges, a source familiar with the deal said.

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced a multiyear syndication deal under which Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) has licensed the first four seasons of its Emmy Award-winning series Mad Men to be watched instantly by Netflix members starting July 27.

LOS ANGELES - Mad Men reruns will start streaming on Netflix in the United States on July 27, the video service and series producer Lionsgate said Tuesday.

Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz is undertaking a global recall of some of its older-model M-Class sport utility vehicles for issues related to cruise control that may lead to a crash, Daimler and U.S. federal safety regulators said on Tuesday.

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The Hello Boys Wonderbra campaign featuring Czech supermodel and actress, Eva Herzigova has been voted the most iconic outdoor ad from the last five decades by the Outdoor Media Centre.

Google has put in a $900 million bid for Nortel Networks' patent portfolio, which could make it a real player in mobile technology and forestall lawsuits over its smartphone line.

eBay says that nearly 12,000 iPads were sold via its service between the device's American and international launches

The European Union filed an appeal against an aircraft subsidies ruling on Friday just hours after calling it a victory, a tactical move in a transatlantic game of global trade chess.

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Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> President Akio Toyoda said on Friday that the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan would hurt the company's earnings, but said that was not on his list of priorities.

Reports of keylogging software installed on Samsung-built laptops are wrong, the company says, but a case where anti-virus software picked up a harmless foreign language folder.

General Motors Financial Co. Inc., a unit of automaker General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM), said it agreed to acquire FinanciaLinx Corp. to expand its product offerings in Canada.