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Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday, with stocks drifting as investors looked to cues later in the week. In Australia, Aurox Resources powered higher on news of a merger with Atlas Iron.

Apple's app store dominates the smart-phone space, but Intel and PC makers like Dell and Acer see a chance to use a similar software store to defend an important new market—netbooks.

Cable operators are petitioning the FCC to prohibit broadcasters from yanking channels during fee negotiations, as happened in the recent Cablevision-Disney dispute over ABC.

Bond underwriters handling the Obama administration-backed Build America bonds have collected more than $1 billion in fees so far.

Audi said net profit slumped 40% in 2009 as demand for luxury cars waned amid the economic downturn, but the premium brand is gearing up for a speedy recovery as it aims this year to sell more than a million cars.

Chevron plans to eliminate about 2,000 positions this year from the company's crude-oil refining and marketing business.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has sued an arm of E*Trade Financial, alleging the company misappropriated her name and personality in a recent TV ad.

Retailer J. Crew Group swung to a fourth-quarter profit and posted full-year earnings that exceeded pre-recession levels.

Ingersoll-Rand said it has prohibited non-U.S. subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran, following similar moves by Caterpillar, GE and Siemens.

Ingersoll-Rand said it has prohibited non-U.S. subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran, following similar moves by Caterpillar, GE and Siemens.

The U.K. bank is seeking a retail lender that would give it more deposits and extend the presence of Barclays Capital in the U.S.

The U.K. bank is seeking a retail lender that would give it more deposits and extend the presence of Barclays Capital in the U.S.

Some big U.S. business groups announced a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign aimed at defeating the Democrats' health-care legislation.

Debt-laden Ireland is winning applause for adopting severe measures that Greece has put off, but pay cuts and tax hikes have put public servants in some unusual binds.

The EU is considering a ban on speculative derivative trades, including credit default swaps, which have been blamed for worsening the crisis in Greece.

RBS's U.S. global banking and markets unit increased staff levels by 4% last year and plans to continue hiring, in an illustration of how insulated its transatlantic business has been from a departure of employees in the U.K.

Hundreds of thousands of residents of Port-au-Prince's tent cities remain to be relocated before hard rains begin next month.

BofA lawyers have agreed to reimburse lawyers for a Miami developer after a judge's rebuke for trying "to score a litigation point" in an ongoing foreclosure dispute.

The chief of the Anglo Australian miner, whose employees are awaiting trial on commercial spying charges in China, is scheduled to visit Beijing to attend a conference that usually attracts top Chinese officials.

Toyota and federal investigators probed the latest report of sudden acceleration, a dramatic incident on a California highway that ricocheted around the Internet.