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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 9:16 PM PDT | Apple to buy 40% of Samsung's flash chips-analyst Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Aug 2005 8:16 PM PDT Apple Computer Inc. plans to buy as much as 40 percent of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s flash memory output in the second half for its new flash-based iPod Mini MP3 player, research firm iSuppli Corp. said on Wednesday, quoting unidentified industry sources. | Governor commits state to buy clean cars WLNE-TV Tue, 23 Aug 2005 8:56 PM PDT Governor Carcieri is ordering the Ocean State to buy more fuel efficient vehicles and create more environmentally-friendly buildings. The governor has signed two executive orders that would force Rhode Island to buy hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. | Vulcan Capital to buy gas-storage business Seattle Times Tue, 23 Aug 2005 8:19 PM PDT A partnership created by billionaire investor Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital and Plains All American Pipeline agreed to buy a natural-gas storage... | China has deal to buy Kazakhstan oil firm Seattle Times Tue, 23 Aug 2005 9:10 PM PDT China's biggest state-owned oil firm has reached an agreement to buy a major oil producer in neighboring Kazakhstan for $4.2 billion — — a... | BEA to Buy Software Firm Plumtree of S.F. RedNova Tue, 23 Aug 2005 7:36 PM PDT Aug. 23--BEA Systems, the San Jose company whose technology enables people to shop online, Monday announced plans to buy San Francisco software company Plumtree for $200 million in cash. | DirecTV poised to take on TiVo USA Today Tue, 23 Aug 2005 6:40 PM PDT For the first time since 2000, DirecTV has stopped encouraging its 14.7 million customers to buy receivers equipped with TiVo DVRs, which can record and pause live TV. In October, it will urge them instead to snap up units featuring a product developed in-house: the DirecTV Plus DVR. | ARMS BUY TO BEEF UP DEFENSE, NOT ARMS RACE: TAIWAN PRESIDENT Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance Tue, 23 Aug 2005 5:22 PM PDT Defence President Chen Shui-bian said Tuesday his administration's arms procurement plan is not meant as an arms race with China, but is primarily for beefing up Taiwan's defense capabilities in the face of China's ever growing military threat. | | |
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