Mitt Romney has now taken a 6-point lead over President Obama in the battleground state of Florida.

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Lenovo Group, the world’s second-largest personal computer maker, said Wednesday its quarterly profit rose 59 percent over a year earlier on record sales.

Here are some key developments in Google’s Inc.’s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.:

Targeting Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital “is what this campaign is going to be about,” he says.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday.

US shares racked up strong gains Monday with the Nasdaq adding nearly 2.5 percent helped by an Apple surge, but Facebook shares flipped below their IPO price on their first full day of trading.

A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.

Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.’s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.

Google on Saturday said that Chinese regulators approved its $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility, clearing the path for the Internet titan to complete the acquisition early next week.

Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pledged at a summit on Saturday to work with Europe on a package that balances growth with debt reduction as world leaders try to prevent the worsening euro zone crisis from destabilizing the global economy

Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng and his immediate family have left China on a flight to the United States. They are expected to arrive in Newark, N.J., Saturday evening

In the hours before Facebook’s stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company’s 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering.

It was barely a “like” and definitely not a “love” from Facebook investors as the online social network’s stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation in to the United States, a U.S.

After all the hype, Facebook’s first day as a public company ended where it began.

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