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  • Toyota starts fixing Priuses recalled in Japan

    Prius owners in Japan are rushing to dealers Wednesday, a day after Toyota's president announced a global recall. Instead of screwdrivers and wrenches, what the mechanic is using to tackle the fix is a small laptop-like device that rewrites programming for the brakes.

  • Baidu posts jump in 4Q earnings as revenue climbs

    Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said its quarterly earnings jumped 48 percent, beating expectations on strong revenue growth.

Shop Around: Local businesses gathering Haiti aid

Want to donate to the Haiti earthquake relief effort? It's as simple as having a pizza, going grocery shopping or even doing your banking.

2009 Columbia home sales down

Despite a surge of home sales in the last few months of the year, 2009 proved to be another sour year for real estate in South Carolina.

AOL integrates Facebook chat with AIM

As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.

New report: Consumers spent modestly in January

Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.

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