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  • Connecticut Tightens Gun Laws After Newtown School Massacre

    Lawmakers in Connecticut, the site of the Dec. 14 massacre that renewed a national debate over gun control, passed a bipartisan measure that increases background checks for buyers and bans the sale of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School.

  • STMicroelectronics, Zoll, Costco: Intellectual Property

    STMicroelectronics filed a patent- infringement complaint against InvenSense Inc. in a case that could keep some Stanley Black & Decker Inc. screwdrivers and Roku Inc. remote controllers out of the U.S.

  • STMicro Sues InvenSense Over Sensors in Wireless Gadgets

    STMicroelectronics filed a patent- infringement complaint against InvenSense Inc. in a case that could keep some Stanley Black & Decker Inc. screwdrivers and Roku Inc. remote controllers out of the U.S.

  • Newtown’s State Senator Booed by Both Sides of Gun Debate

    Standing without an overcoat in sub- freezing temperatures on the steps of Connecticut’s Gothic-style statehouse, state Senator John McKinney begins to tell a group of gun-control activists about the importance of bipartisan dialogue. It doesn’t go well.

  • New Britain Palm Oil Profit Climbs, Company to Resume Dividend

    New Britain Palm Oil Ltd said 2010 total comprehensive income attributable to shareholders climbed to $223 million from $117.9 million. The company expects to resume payment of dividends with an interim dividend for 2011 payable in October, it said in an earnings statement today.

  • Fixing Harvard Endowment Failures Will Take Mendillo Five Years

    Shortly after she took over as chief executive officer of Harvard Management Co. on July 1, 2008, Jane Mendillo gathered the university endowment’s 200- member staff for a town-hall-style meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank Building in downtown Boston, across the Charles River from Harvard University.

  • Harvard Learns a Lesson

    Jane Mendillo -- who went to Yale -- stepped in to lead the university’s endowment just as markets crashed and it lost $10.1 billion. It may be years before she can clean up the mess.

  • Wilmar Expands in Europe With Palm-Oil Refining, Alcohol Plant

    Wilmar International Ltd. , the world’s biggest palm-oil producer, will partner with a rival to refine and sell cooking oil in Europe, seeking to ease its reliance on China.

  • Magnitude 6.9 Quake Strikes New Britain Region, PNG, USGS Says

    A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain region, Papua New Guinea about 471 kilometers northeast of Port Moresby, USGS said.

  • Hackers Take $1 Billion a Year as Banks Blame Their Clients

    Valiena Allison got a call from her bank on a busy morning two years ago about a wire transfer from her company’s account. She told the managers she hadn’t approved the transfer. The problem was, her computer had.

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