TOKYO - Toyota's profit climbed nearly 9 percent in the first three months of 2007 as the automaker marked its seventh straight fiscal year of record sales amid robust demand for its Corolla, Camry and Lexus models.
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate on Wednesday reported a 6.
2 percent profit rise for its latest quarter on higher earnings from movies including "Night at the Museum" and growth in cable TV networks.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - DirecTV Group Inc.
, the nation's largest satellite TV operator, said Wednesday its first-quarter profit rose 43 percent from a year ago as more subscribers signed on for its high-definition service and digital video recorders.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit surged 34 percent, but investors punished the stock on signs of weakness for the second straight quarter in a core area of the company's business.
LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. exceeded second-quarter profit expectations, but its performance for the rest of the year is largely up to a pirate captain named Jack Sparrow and a gourmet animated rat named Remy.
LAS VEGAS - Comcast Corp.
Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has signed deals with Volvo Car Corp.
and whisky maker Chivas Brothers Ltd. to support two new Web-only video series from Reveille, the production company behind TV shows "The Office" and "Ugly Betty."
WASHINGTON - In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.
8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.
NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. has sued 14 Iowa phone companies and dial-in service providers, alleging the rural carriers are striking illegal deals with conference and chat lines to boost long-distance call volume and inflate the charges they bill to the nation's big phone companies.
SAN FRANCISCO - Business software maker SAP AG announced plans Tuesday to buy OutlookSoft Corp. and its line of technology products tailored for budgeting and financial forecasts, the latest development in SAP's duel with Oracle Corp.
Michael Schuppenhauer, a biotechnology consultant, lives in an idyllic canyon off the Pacific Ocean near Half Moon Bay, Calif.
On the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just 40 minutes away, lies the heartland of the Internet: Google's headquarters and Silicon Valley.
SEATTLE - Online retailer Amazon.com and IBM settled all their patent-infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement, the companies said Tuesday.
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co. has sued rival Renesas Technology Corp., claiming infringement of patents that cover how memory chips are made.
NEW YORK - The chief marketing officer of Macy's department stores delivered tough talk to the newspaper industry Tuesday, telling a publishing conference why her company is moving ad dollars to other media such as TV, magazines and the Internet.
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