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NATION/WORLD

For hackers, China is land of opportunity

Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too.
BUSINESS

Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break

It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.
TECHNOLOGY

HP's 2Q offers hope even as revenue slump deepens

Hewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal computer sales deepens, but the company's cost-cutting measures and focus on more profitable areas of technology appear to be easing the pain.
BUSINESS

GM recalling Cadillac SUVs to tighten wheels

General Motors Co. is recalling more than 27,000 Cadillac SUVs worldwide because the wheels can fall off.
BUSINESS

US auto factories cutting back on summer downtime

DETROIT -- The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks.
BUSINESS

Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs.
BUSINESS

AP PHOTOS: The 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2012

It pays to be in TV.
BUSINESS

Stocks fall on news Fed weighed cutting stimulus

The Federal Reserve took financial markets for a ride Wednesday, pushing stock prices up in the morning then sending them down in the afternoon.
BUSINESS

Tesla uses stock, note sale to repay government

Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early.

BUSINESS

With great power comes great perks

Here's a look at what companies spent in 2012 on CEOs' country club and business club memberships, private jet travel and home security.

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