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Few stocks trade on emotion the way Apple Inc. does. Its rip-roaring initial public offering in 1980 created the template for modern tech mania, while making Steve Jobs a gazillionaire. When the company fell on hard times in the mid-1990s, no amount of good news could pierce the cloud of doom hanging over investors. Now, […]

As the release date nears for the long-awaited Apple iPhone, analysts are split over whether the first-generation mobile phone and MP3 player can satisfy the expectations set by the computer maker’s marketing machine. Along with delivering innovative design, Steve Jobs and Co. has few equals in building a buzz around a new product. As a […]

Mobile phone and wireless services provider Alltel Corp. on Sunday agreed to a US$27.5 billion buyout, a deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in North America. The Little Rock, Arkansas company, which serves 12 million mobile phone subscribers in 35 states, signed a deal to be bought by TPG Capital LLP and the private […]