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The IBM Corporation, recently known for constructing a computer named "Watson" that won a Jeopardy all-star clash, reported Tuesday that its first-quarter net income rose 10 percent.
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Over a five year period students who dropped out of four-year colleges and universities before their sophomore year cost the United States more than $9 billion according to the American Institutes for Research (AIR).
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Half a billion eggs have now been recalled in the US because of an outbreak of salmonella. No deaths have yet been reported but there have been many cases of illness from salmonella poisoning.
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New Chancellor George Osbourne announced today where the £6 billion worth of cuts that we were promised will fall. It's being warned that these cuts or savings, as some prefer it, are the first of many.
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Twitter today reached another milestone for the micro-messaging service, with more than 10 billion tweets now having been sent on the network by its millions of users.
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Next week, the United States Treasury will sell $74 billion worth of debt in the form of notes and bonds. Optimism rose in Wall Street as the number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell for the first time in a year.
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Bank of America is preparing to pay back the $45 billion dollars it borrowed from the U.S. government as part of the Troubled Assessts Recovery Program (TARP).
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Rolls Royce has announced its has secured orders worth $2 billion. The UK firm will be making engines for Airbus planes that will be used by Air China and Ethiopian Airlines.
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Billionaire George Soros will invest $1 billion in clean energy technology and another $100 million over ten years in a Climate Policy Initiative. Global warming is a "political problem" requiring "political will" to solve it, Soros said.
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The world's largest drug company, Pfizer is paying out $2.3 billion for promoting prescription drugs in the United States illegally.
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Which billion-euro space mission will Europe launch in the early 2020s?
 The head of the International Monetary Fund says she wants the fund to contribute €28 billion ($36.4 billion Cdn) to a €130 billion bailout for Greece.
Apple announced that 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store.
A billion dollars — that's billion with a "b" — to purchase a company with only 13 employees and absolutely no income.
 Canada's largest pension fund manager, the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, reports its net assets grew to $159 billion at end of 2011 from $151.7 billion at end of 2010 despite market challenges.
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