If Microsoft pulls a Jennifer Willbanks — the Georgia bride who made headlines after fleeing the altar and going missing in 2005 — and backs out of its deal to acquire online advertising firm aQuantive, it will cost the company a cool half-billion dollars.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dissolved parliament and called a snap election, in an escalation of the country's political crisis.
Wallace and Gromit creator Aardman Animations has agreed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures. The Bristol-based company had been looking for a new Hollywood partner after its association with US studio Dreamworks came to an end in January.
After Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders publicized that he was searching for a new chief investment officer at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a deluge of e-mails and queries hit the company's Web site.
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