Dell drops 3Par bid • Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc. Dell said Thursday that it won't match H-P's offer to pay $33 p

This year's back-to-school season isn't as big a bust for retailers as they feared _ or as last year's _ but it's not great either.

Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker.

The showdown over 3Par Inc. that ended Thursday was a puzzling spectacle.

The head of a major Canadian pension fund says a Chinese sovereign wealth fund is interested in making a joint-bid with a Canadian pension fund for fertilizer-maker Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc.

Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.

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Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

Missouri regulators will investigate whether a growing number of consumer complaints about the state's local telephone services indicates system-wide deterioration, the Public Service Commission annou

India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications _ not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion _ to install servers in the country to make it easie

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the largest institutions if they threaten to bring down the financial sys

Romania's unpopular government was in turmoil Thursday after the prime minister fired five Cabinet ministers, with the economy minister also saying he will quit.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday he has extended Russia's ban on wheat exports until next year's harvest to ensure it has bounced back from a severe drought and wildfires that destr

BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. telecommunications chief said, adding that governments have legitimate se

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Germany's central bank said Thursday that it will request the dismissal of a board member whose comments stereotyping Muslims and Jews drew outrage at home and abroad.

Sale price is $48.5 million