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Nokia's digital mapping arm Navteq launched on Monday an indoor mapping service enabling shopkeepers or retailers to better target consumers. Navteq's Destination Maps covers more than 200 of the largest shopping centers in the United States with expansion plans for more shopping centers and other types of destinations throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Coalition forces targeting Libya are working to expand a no-fly zone south and west of Benghazi and are generally achieving their aims and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not a target even as the coalition struck one of his compounds in Tripoli, the U.S. commander organizing the coalition's military strikes said Monday.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes plunged in February and prices hit their lowest level in nearly nine years, indicating a housing market recovery was still a long way off.

Charles Schwab Corp will buy optionsXpress Holdings Inc , a smaller retail brokerage, in a $1 billion deal aimed at helping Schwab take advantage of investors' stronger embrace of options.

Nokia's strategy for entering the tablet computer market may not include Microsoft, its recently announced partner for smartphones, according to a person with knowledge of the company's thinking.

Oil prices rose more than 1 percent on Monday as U.N.-mandated airstrikes on Libya and spreading protests and unrest in the Middle East reinforced concerns about potential threats to oil supply from the region.

The current high rate of unemployment in the United States is primarily due to cyclical factors, not structural changes in the economy, according to researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.

Sprint has come out against the merger, citing dangers to competition.

Electronic health records are often discussed as a solution for developed nations, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Kenya's Moi University explores the impact of electronic records on medical care in a developing country.

Shoppers plan to wait until next year and beyond to spend generously again, a survey on Monday showed, in an early sign that rising gasoline prices could make the spring selling season tough for retailers.

US stocks jumped higher on positive news from Japan and AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp on Monday signed a $1.55 billion deal with state-owned Korea National Oil for one-third of the U.S. company's interest in the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas.

AT&T adds a 3-D phone to its lineup along with a Windows Phone 7 device.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Sunday that the U.S. will not have the top role in military action Libya and is expecting that other nations in the coalition will take the lead, although the U.S. will continue to provide some military support.

G7’s coordinated effort to weaken the Japanese yen was a surprise to most. Douglas Borthwick of Connecticut-based Faros Trading, however, anticipated this development.

Some Japanese are outraged by the alarmist tone and sensationalistic reporting of the earthquake-tsunami tragedy by foreign media. Some media sources have just plain printed factual errors.

The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that the U.S. Federal Reserve must disclose details about its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis in 2008.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell unexpectedly sharply in February and prices fell to their lowest in nearly nine years, an industry group said on Monday.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes plunged in February and prices hit their lowest level in nearly nine years, implying a housing market recovery was still a long way off.

The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the U.S. Federal Reserve must disclose details about its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis in 2008.

Deutsche Telekom said it would focus on organic growth and return cash to shareholders after agreeing the sale of T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $39 billion, lifting its shares to a two-year high.