Sunday, April 8, 2007

Palm chief focusing on regaining sales: report

(Reuters) - "I can only worry about how the business is performing and what can we do as a team to do better, to get our products out faster, to drive for higher reliability, to grab more market share."

Colligan, 46, downplayed speculation about a buyout.


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UPDATE 1-China's March surplus to see "notable change"

(Reuters) - Vice Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng told reporters that data for March, due in principle on Tuesday, would show that the January-February results were not indicative of a trend.

Asked about the outlook for the surplus in the coming months, Gao said: "I suggest you look at the March trade figures -- you will see a notable change in them.


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FEATURE-Aid flap is new threat to New Orleans rebuilding

(Reuters) - The dispute over how $7.5 billion in federal aid is handed out is slowing disbursal to more than 120,000 homeowners whose houses were damaged or destroyed by the storm on Aug. 29, 2005 and by subsequent flooding.

Officials from the state of Louisiana contend that a new federal requirement that aid checks be issued jointly to homeowners and their mortgage lenders could mean that money bypasses the owners -- many of whom lost their jobs as a result of Katrina -- and goes straight to paying their defaulted mortgage payments.


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