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IBM unveiled details of its new advanced mainframe chips that it said can process information at record-breaking speeds, more than 17,000 times the rate of the company's high-end system in 1970.

Coca-Cola acquired Nidan Juices, one of the four largest juice makers in Russia, as the beverage giant continues its push into noncarbonated drinks.

The governor of Afghanistan's central bank said Kabul Bank, the country's top lender, was solvent, seeking to allay fears that the bank is deeply in the red.

AT&T Inc. and Crown Media Holdings Inc. failed to reach a distribution agreement for the Hallmark and Hallmark Movie channels, causing their removal from the telecom company's U-verse cable lineup.

Liquor maker Brown-Forman said first quarter profit fell 8% on margin pressures even as sales of its leading brands rose.

The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil-drilling handed the government another setback on Wednesday.

BP spent more than $93 million on newspaper advertisements and TV spots in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, paying out three times as much money on ads as it did during the same time last year.

Comair, a regional airline owned by Delta, said it will cut its fleet by more than half and reduce staffing over the next two years.

After a little more than four years trading on the Big Board, Burger King's stock was little changed through Tuesday's close, while some of its major competitors' have soared.

Sinochem hired HSBC to suss out a possible bid for Saskatchewan's Potash, but the Canadian province's top official expressed grave concerns about such a takeover.

The Securities and Exchange Commission settled insider trading allegations against a former hedge-fund manager and an executive at Merck & Co., involving a big drug-company deal in 2007.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is probing First Niagara Financial Group's $1.5 billion proposed acquisition of NewAlliance Bancshares.

A federal appeals court affirmed a lower-court ruling that will block generic versions of Lilly's osteoporosis drug Evista from becoming available in the U.S. until 2014.

Most car makers reported their U.S. new-vehicle sales in August declined significantly from a year earlier, when auto makers saw a spike in sales from "cash for clunkers."

Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China plans to acquire an additional 32% stake in Shenzhen Development Bank for $4.27 billion in a private placement to control the national lender.

Pfizer agreed to buy privately held FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, whose leading drug candidate is a therapy for a genetic neurodegenerative disease for which the only current therapy is a liver transplant.

China started requiring cellphone subscribers to register their identities when setting up an account, prompting concerns over privacy in the world's largest mobile market.

Allergan agreed to pay the U.S. government $600 million to settle criminal and civil charges related to the marketing of antiwrinkle treatment Botox.

The Democratic chairman of a blue-ribbon panel examining the U.S. financial crisis said that government officials made a "conscious policy decision" not to prevent Lehman Brothers' 2008 collapse, potentially accelerating the financial crisis.