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TECHNOLOGY 9:58pm

HP turnround plan begins to show results

Shares leap 13 per cent on better than expected earnings

Lex in depth HP and Autonomy
Inside Business HP aims for lift-off with Project Moonshot
HP puts emphasis on new server

TELECOMS 5:27pm

Cable & Wireless to relocate from London

Group’s planned move to south Florida will mark ‘end of an era’

Andrew Hill How C&W restructure fell short
Fiat Industrial to move tax home to UK
Lombard SSE successor faces unenviable task

FINANCIALS 5:43pm

Brussels to tighten bank bailout rules

Investors would suffer heavier losses under new controls

Schäuble warns EU bank plan needs treaty change
Inside Business Don’t wait to fix Europe’s banking woes

RETAIL & CONSUMER 6:38pm

Amazon plans giant biosphere in Seattle

Proposal to have staff work in spherical greenhouses

FINANCIALS 8:02pm

Cloud lifts from UK banks as review ends

Lloyds and RBS do not need fresh capital but shortfalls remain

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Inside Business: Tumblr’s takeover

Richard Waters

Site being acquired by Yahoo works well with the 18-24 age set but will it last, asks Richard Waters

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FINANCIALS 7:52pm

GE eyes consumer finance unit IPO

Immelt seeks to focus on core industrial business

FINANCIALS 6:38pm

Ares hires ex-Blair adviser for Europe deals

Charles Steel, an ex-Carlyle executive, to help LA fund expand

©Bloomberg INDUSTRIALS 4:11pm

US housing upturn boosts Toll Brothers

Luxury homebuilder beats forecasts with earnings up 46%

From MARKETS 6:53pm

Ratings agencies under fire again

Accusation of misjudging rebound in US housing market

Pedestrians walk by a Sprint store on April 15 2013 in San Francisco, California. Dish Network Corp has offered to purchase Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock.

©Getty TELECOMS 1:07pm

Dish aims to scuttle rival bid for Sprint

Satellite TV group campaigns against rival for US wireless outfit

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Andrew Hill

SAP’s search for autistic innovators should be welcomed, writes Andrew Hill

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Skyline from Hong Kong with IFC building

©Corbis Hong Kong IPOs: while the deals got done, they did so only with a lot of legwork

tech blog

Study by Pew Research Center reveals African-American teenagers are most likely to use Twitter

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