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Sweden to appeal U.K bail for WikiLeaks founder

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A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds ($317,400) on Tuesday for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target of U.S. fury over the release of secret diplomatic cables.

Sweden to appeal UK bail for WikiLeaks founder

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A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds ($317,400) on Tuesday for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target of U.S. fury over the release of secret diplomatic cables.
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Prosecutors to appeal bail for WikiLeaks' Assange

Prosecutors said on Tuesday they would appeal against a British judge's decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been arrested in Britain on Swedish allegations of sex crimes.
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U.S. CEOs more optimistic on economy: Roundtable

Chief executive officers of large U.S. companies are much more optimistic about the economy than a few months ago, although their expectations for growth remain modest, according to a quarterly survey by the Business Roundtable.
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Nokia delays flagship E7 phone to early 2011

Nokia has delayed the rollout of its next top-of-the-range model to next year, another blow to the cellphone maker's plans to regain ground lost to Apple and Google in the smartphone market.
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WikiLeaks' Assange defiant as lawyers seek bail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denounced the firms that suspended payments to his website as instruments of U.S. foreign policy and called for help in protecting his work from their illegal and immoral attacks.
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Toshiba to make LCD panels for Apple iPhone: report

Toshiba Corp will spend about 100 billion yen ($1.19 billion) to build a factory to make small LCD panels, mainly to supply to Apple Inc for use in iPhones, Japanese business daily Nikkei said on Tuesday.
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Pfizer names Lorch chairman, raises dividend

Pfizer Inc named board member George Lorch as nonexecutive chairman, a week after the abrupt departure of Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Kindler from the world's largest drugmaker.
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WikiLeaks's founder Assange seeks bail in UK court

Lawyers for Julian Assange, held in Britain over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden, will try again on Tuesday to win bail for the WikiLeaks founder who provoked U.S. fury by publishing secret diplomatic cables.
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Pfizer names Lorch chairman and raises dividend

Pfizer Inc said on Monday that board member George Lorch was elected nonexecutive chairman of the board, effective immediately, and the world's largest drugmaker raised its dividend by about 11 percent.
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BlackBerry Torch seen aiding RIM's results

Research In Motion likely sold as many BlackBerrys in its last quarter as Apple sold iPhones, aided by a strong showing from its new Torch smartphone, as Google gathers steam and Microsoft enters the fray.
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Senators press China on piracy, counterfeiting

Two senators, armed with a new report on piracy and counterfeiting in China, urged Beijing on Monday to step up efforts to protect American movies, software and other goods from illegal copying.
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Dell to buy Compellent for $960 million

Dell Inc plans to buy data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc for about $960 million, in a bid to shake its reliance on hardware, but it may need to do more to compete in new technologies like cloud computing.
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YouTube's most- watched videos in 2010

As the year is coming to an end YouTube is also ready with the list of most viewed videos that people in US and around the world were searching and watching for in 2010, said YouTube blog post.
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Get smart: Techie gifts for fitness fanatics

'Tis the season of the smart workout, when mobile phones track miles run, treadmills interact with virtual trainers and computer chips render even jump ropes artificially intelligent.
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Lenovo eyes rising margins on appreciating yuan

Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC maker, expects its operating profit margin to trend upwards, helped by easing component shortages and an appreciating Chinese currency, its CFO said on Monday at the Reuters China Investment Summit.

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