IBT Staff Reporter

The board of NYSE Euronext is expected to meet on Sunday to discuss a planned takeover by Deutsche Boerse, sources close to the deal said, while exchanges left out of the merger frenzy plotted their response.

Telus Corp posted a 46 percent jump in quarterly profit on Friday, driven largely by strong data and wireless revenue, the Canadian telecoms company said, as it pushes ahead with its Internet television service.

Dell Inc hopes healthy business spending and favorable component costs will help it build on recent progress to improve profitability -- and convince investors still not sold on its turnaround efforts.

Level Global Investors, one of four hedge funds raided by U.S. authorities last November in a broad investigation into insider trading, told investors on Friday it would shut down, citing the pressure of the probe and investor redemptions.

Micron Technology, the top U.S. maker of memory chips for computers, forecast favorable trends including an uptick in contract prices for DRAM as small players are forced out of the capital intensive industry.

Corrects name of executive quoted in ninth paragraph to Chief Commercial Officer Joe Natale, from CEO Darren Entwistle

President Barack Obama will make a trip to Oregon at the end next week and will visit an Intel manufacturing plant as well as discuss the company's programs related to science, engineering and math programs, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a press conference on Friday.

One of the ongoing problems with unclear non-proliferation efforts is what to do with nuclear material in the former Soviet Union. A group from Sandia National Laboratories recently completed a project in Kazakhstan, and taking another step towards securing it.

Nokia and Microsoft Corp will team up to build an iPhone rival, the Finnish phonemaker's last-ditch attempt to catch up with Google and Apple and arrest its decline in the global smartphone arena.

LOS ANGELES - Deal-of-the-day website Groupon has pulled its controversial Super Bowl ads that made light of Tibet's oppression against China's Communist regime.

The Justice Department filed a federal suit over the restructuring of bond insurer Ambac, saying that a state court did not have the power to prevent the federal government from collecting potentially more than $700 million in taxes.

President Barack Obama said the Egyptian people's voices were heard and President Hosni Mubarak responded to people's hunger for change.

Stocks closed out their second straight week of gains with a rally on Friday sparked after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, easing tension around the region for now.

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would make Do Not Track a law.

Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc rose more than 5 percent above their initial public offering price on Friday as investors scooped up stakes in the U.S. pipeline company.

Exchanges left out of the flurry of announced takeovers this week said they are considering striking their own deals or looking to take advantage of the distractions, in early signs of ripples through the world's capital markets.

U.S. stocks closed out their second straight week of gains on Friday with a rally sparked after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, easing tension around the region for now.

U.S. consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in eight months in early February, boosted by recent tax cuts and optimism about the economy, a survey released on Friday showed.

While Republican leaders promised to pursue even bigger federal budget cuts on Thursday, an initial proposal from Wednesday shows job training programs, a fund to upgrade federal buildings and the Environmental Protection Agency will see some of the biggest reductions.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday after President Hosni Mubarak resigned, helping clear Egypt's clouded political picture and lifting investor sentiment.

Merging the iconic New York Stock Exchange with Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG will force European companies to switch to using U.S. accounting rules which have superior disclosures, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday.

U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips raised its quarterly dividend 20 percent on Friday and said it would buy back $10 billion in shares of its stock, lifting its share price nearly 2 percent.

Announced in 2008, the third title in the Diablo series may finally make its way to consumers this year.

A furious wave of protest finally swept Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond.

Workers in several of Nokia's Finnish offices walked out Friday afternoon in protest after the announcement of the strategic alliance between Nokia and Microsoft.

The Watson project won't end with Jeopardy! next week as IBM will collaborate with several universities to expand it.

The Obama administration will propose a wind-down of government-controlled mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to documents obtained by Reuters.

Nokia and Microsoft Corp will team up to build an iPhone rival, the Finnish phonemaker's last-ditch attempt to catch up with Google and Apple and arrest its decline in the global smartphone arena.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday as the clouded political picture in Egypt cleared somewhat following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, lifting investor sentiment.