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Global Business
Wednesday May 11 2011

Financial Times - Companies
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Google sets aside $500m for US probe

Google has put aside $500m to settle a US investigation into its advertising practices, marking a sharp intensification of the spreading regulatory scrutiny of the company
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AIG offering scaled back after share slide

The US Treasury and AIG aim to sell about $8.7bn in shares in the insurance groupâ€™s public offering this month after scaling back plans for a larger share sale
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Microsoft in $8.5bn Skype gamble

Microsoft is acquiring Skype, the internet telephone company, in what is one of the US software companyâ€™s largest deals to date as it seeks to revitalise its business
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Investor appetite for risk boosts Goldman

Goldman Sachs said its traders lost money on only one day in the last quarter, underlining how volatile markets and investorsâ€™ appetite for risk helped revive Wall Streetâ€™s biggest source of revenue
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US explores easing of rules on capital-raising

US regulators are looking at relaxing rules around companies raising capital after criticism that tough regulations are hindering the growth of start-ups
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Disney profits hit by Japan quake

The devastating earthquake in Japan and one of Walt Disneyâ€™s biggest box-office flops combined to hit the media groupâ€™s second-quarter profits
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Pace shares fall 40% after profit warning

UK set-top box manufacturerâ€™s shares dive after it warns â€˜a disappointing start to the financial yearâ€™ forced it to cut full-year profit expectations
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SSE found guilty of misleading on sales

Scottish and Southern Energy has been found guilty of two counts of â€˜misleading selling practicesâ€™ arising from a script that its agents were trained to read on doorsteps across the UK
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Apollo decides itâ€™s now or never for Graceland offer

Leon Blackâ€™s private equity group agrees a $509m deal for entertainment rights group
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US under pressure to fill rare earths gap

Manufacturers and politicians in the US argue for more investment in the countryâ€™s production of rare earths, amid intensifying concern about Chinaâ€™s domination of supplies of the vital metals
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