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“The Amazing Spider-Man,” Sony Corp.’s reboot of the super-hero film franchise, led the U.S. and Canadian box office in its first weekend with $62 million in ticket sales, building on a midweek debut.
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“The Amazing Spider-Man,” Sony Corp.’s reboot of the super-hero film franchise, led the U.S. and Canadian box office in its first weekend with $65 million in ticket sales, building on a midweek debut.
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Kneecaps are shot, cars are blown up, women are abducted, heads roll on the floor and one unlucky suit gets bullwhipped, doused with gasoline and torched in the Oliver Stone thriller “Savages.”
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DirecTV and Dish Network Corp. have received requests from the U.S. Justice Department about pricing contracts with television networks, part of a broader probe into whether pay-TV companies are squeezing out Internet-video rivals, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., the maker of Ski-Doo snowmobiles and Sea-Doo watercraft, was sued for patent infringement by Polaris Industries Inc., a competing maker of snowmobiles.
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Dish Network Corp., the second- largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, applied for the Web-address suffixes “.direct” and “.dtv” -- names that relate more closely to the brand of its chief competitor, DirecTV.
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The Indiana Finance Authority is leading five utility issuers selling about $2.5 billion this week as yields on such bonds backed by customer payments are at their lowest in almost a year.
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PlayStation users may be subjected to a barrage of advertising if a patent application filed by Sony Corp.’s Sony Computer Entertainment America unit is any indication.
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Russia’s largest gold company moved its share listing to London from Moscow in July, and the nation’s biggest phosphate fertilizer producer is considering the same change, a blow to President Dmitry Medvedev’s plan to turn the former Soviet capital into a global financial hub 20 years after the fall of Communism.
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Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen, a former Las Vegas card-player, says he’s prepared to build a wireless-Internet network from the ground up. The company’s stock shows investors are betting that it’s a bluff.
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