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The key to Fanatical Support is Rackspace's belief that exceptional service starts with committed people who are passionate about serving hosting customers - all for no ...4.7

Crude oil prices have fallen on the news that the EU says it is prepared to give the US oil if it asks for help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.4.6

L'Oreal SA, the world's largest cosmetics maker, said Friday that its net profit for the first half of the year fell 5.8 percent, hurt by a drop in earnings in its luxury ...3.3

Energy prices eased from near-record highs Friday as the race to restore production and transport capacity along the Gulf Course met with sporadic success.2.7

Aldersgate Investments Limited is considering its options regarding an approach for Ireland's Jurys Doyle Hotel Group after its Irish partners in a possible offer withdrew ...3.1

China's top development and planning body estimates the country's rapid export growth will begin to slow in the second half of the year as global demand weakens overall.3.2

Greek traders yesterday expressed satisfaction with the program of investment subsidies for small commercial enterprises announced by the government on Wednesday.2.7

The International Monetary Fund is to give the Democratic Republic of Congo an additional $41m in aid.2.9

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week 2. Cramer's 'Mad Money Lightning Round': Almost Time to Hop on Harley 3. Pfizer a Healthy Buy in Gurus' Eyes 4.2.7

French-speaking men, women and children thronged the Cafe Med at the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel yesterday.2.7

Germany's Deutsche Post is likely to launch a firm offer for logistics company Exel within weeks, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday.2.7

Spain expects to receive a formal request on Friday to release gasoline stocks to the United States, and it is prepared to grant it, an Industry Ministry spokesman said.2.7

Seoul real estate markets showed mixed reactions to the government's real estate policy package released yesterday, which confirmed a new housing construction plan in ...2.7

The Venezuelan government is reported to be planning to insist that all private banks appoint two state representatives to their board.2.9

Hundreds of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory are to be balloted about strike action in a major escalation of a row involving the sacking of a trade union official.2.7

Mumbai: The broad details of the over four-year long family dispute between Mr Shishir Bajaj and Mr Rahul Bajaj and his three cousin brothers, Shekhar, Niraj and Madhur are ...2.7

Pascal Lamy stepped into office Thursday as the new head of the World Trade Organization, pledging to re-energize negotiations ahead of a crucial global trade summit in ...2.7

Area businesses have been collecting new bedding items to decorate the rooms of single solders in the first Stryker brigade from Fort Lewis who are coming home from Iraq.2.7

News Corp, the media company headed by Rupert Murdoch, is facing a legal challenge against its recently announced purchase of the US internet company, Intermix Media, with a ...2.7

Tribune Co.'s Newsday will eliminate 45 jobs in New York and reduce its coverage of the city to cut costs.2.7

Responding to an antitrust lawsuit filed by a rival computer chip maker, Intel Corp.2.7

Science Applications International Corp. said Thursday that it will sell shares to the public, upending a major legacy of its founder and recently retired chairman, who ...2.7

First quarter trading at Greene King is looking good, the brewer and pubs group says.4.5

Bates Technical College will partner with a Japanese construction company to provide the company with market research on American home construction and training for its ...2.7

Pharmaceutical industry advertising is to be policed following concerns raised by MPs, the government says.2.9

The company goes to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and purchases a weather options contract that pays out compensation if temperatures rise above a certain degree during a ...2.7

A 14-member team of real estate sales associates from RE/MAX Professionals of Tacoma raised more than $6,500 at the 24-mile Walk for Breast Cancer on Aug.2.7

Leisure conglomerate Rank said it hoped to complete the sale of its DVD unit Deluxe Media by the end of the year, but its failure to convert rising sales into profits ...2.9

Airline group Air France KLM has said its annual profits for 2005/06 should be "significantly above" last year, as it reported rising passenger numbers.2.9

Supermarket chain Somerfield has been ordered to sell 12 stores because of competition rules.4.5

A: Yes. A loaded roof rack increases drag and can cut fuel economy by 5 percent.2.7

Many consumers are unhappy about the recent spike in gasoline prices and the powers of state government to regulate prices.2.7

Profits have fallen at UK pub group JD Wetherspoon, as sales were hit by smoking bans and fewer drinks offers.2.9

The News wants to hear about the lessons you have learned in the business world of Metro Detroit.2.9

Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, new Medicare prescription drug plans will be available to people with Medicare.2.7

German reinsurance giant Hannover Re has become the first reinsurance firm to warn that the cost of Hurricane Katrina will pull its profits lower.2.9

Japan has ended an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices at French luxury goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton after failing to find clear evidence ...4.4

FRANKFURT German prosecutors investigating possible insider trading at DaimlerChrysler searched the homes and offices of four suspects Thursday, including two of the ...2.7