update The online brokerage agrees to buy rival Datek for nearly $1.3 billion in stock, aiming to gain valuable scale as it seeks to fight an ongoing industrywide slump.
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A group calling itself Evil Shadow Team reportedly hacked into Microsoft's online store in India, stealing usernames and passwords of the site's customers.
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The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them.
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