By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Chris Sacca had a plum job as the Wi-Fi guru at Google. But with his stock options fully vested, he left the Internet search company this month for a new career as a venture capitalist.
Mr. Sacca, 32, joins a growing number of Google millionaires hoping to parlay their newfound […]
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By KEITH BRADSHER
BEIJING — In preparation for the Beijing Olympics and a series of other international events, some American companies are helping the Chinese government design and install one of the most comprehensive high-tech public surveillance systems in the world.
When told of the companies’ transactions, critics of China’s human rights record said the work […]
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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
American stock markets tumbled and oil prices surged on Thursday as investors grappled with weak economic data and concerns about financial fallout from the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto.
The Dow Jones industrials dropped at the opening bell, just over an hour after Ms. Bhutto was pronounced dead after […]
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By LINDA GANNELL
WARWICK-ON-EDEN, England
Birds sang in the drawing room of Val Marriner’s home, Warwick Hall in Cumbria, but they were not coming from the garden. It was the sounds of Mrs. Marriner’s cellphone ring providing the idyllic touch.
An American from Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Marriner bought Warwick Hall in 1998 with her second husband, Nick, […]
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By DENISE GRADY
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that may eventually be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy.
In its first test in humans, a safety study in just four boys, the drug enabled patients to produce an essential muscle protein that is missing in Duchenne’s […]
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By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Google must face a Wisconsin company’s lawsuit over a toolbar feature that generates Web links from search data, a federal appeals court decided in a ruling posted on Wednesday.
The United States Court of Appeals for the federal circuit in Washington revived part of a lawsuit filed by HyperPhrase Technologies, throwing out a […]
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