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NEW YORK — The flurry of initial public offerings this week is confirmation that this fall's rebound in the market wasn't a fluke and sets the stage for more companies to raise money through IPOs in 2010. But the response to two of the newly public... Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over price. Read more

BRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the computer industry's biggest players -- such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. -- have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits. Read more

TOKYO — Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday. Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A group of major national research libraries says users now can search the full text of 1.6 billion pages from 4.6 million digitized volumes. Read more

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics... Read more

LOS ANGELES -- If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Read more

HAVANA — President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government... Read more

LOS ANGELES -- All this week at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft has talked about cloud computing, what many consider the next frontier. Read more